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 enlarge | Authors: Fil Hunter, Steven Biver, Paul Fuqua
Publisher: Focal Press
Category: Book
List Price: $39.95
Buy New: $30.97
You Save: $8.98 (22%)
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Avg. Customer Rating:  98 reviews
Sales Rank: 2415
Media: Paperback
Edition: 3rd
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 320
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.4
Dimensions (in): 9.7 x 7.4 x 0.7
ISBN: 0240808193
Dewey Decimal Number: 771
EAN: 9780240808192
ASIN: 0240808193
Publication Date: March 21, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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very comprehensive September 19, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The book is about what is light, how to use it in the difference materials and special effects.
it was very helpful for me because i look for a book that talk about the basic principles of light.
 It is SCIENCE!!!! September 18, 2008
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
I just scan the book. I like the way the book teach how to manage the light during photographing. When I have time, I will go through deeper. Satisfied!!
 the glory of sweat stains September 15, 2008
1 out of 56 found this review helpful
i wasn't paying attention or the information has leaked out through the trade off for real estate in my fibrous container yearning for relevancy. that is why i need you. to bolster the methods of a successful preparation. but i haven't bought you yet. and here i pronounce indecision. there are just too many. what if i was limited to walking to the local bookshop? i would scoff at the washed up selection of used guidebooks then feel cheated by tweaked reprints of the industry standards. this industry is too big. hypothetically, i walk home, and along the way i am taunted by the satellite dishes i wish i had already reframed (to both my community plus my unknown community) for being a completely obvious art project that sacrifices the aesthetic for the conceptual yet surprises you with anonymous racism.
what if my search terms could have been better. what if the auto completion / auto correction was hindsight itself--imagine it: letters slowly congealing into subliminal idiom. do i keep it general, interrogative, pessimistic? "how to take a good picture" "photography" "light" "portrait" struggle to completion in the same suspense of watching a kid mess up at a spelling bee, going really meditative about their my mistake, sweat stains the only glory.
once i learned through exercises how to appropriately evoke the mood of (wheel's been invented) electrical setups. it was another notebook, seventeen pages in, that i was too lazy to recycle when the storage space let out the air in its balloon. i couldn't read my handwriting anyway.
i really can't stand the artificial much longer. i am planning a purchase by justification of investment. i will be ready now when the mother of some friend of mine contacts me about a reputation i had for training in this skill and therefore she'll want to pass my name on to someone who needs headshots of their niece's aspiring actress daughter. i will agree under the condition that the daughter will probably fail in that competitive industry and it won't be my fault. i will agree under the condition i take them in natural light.
technical hocus pocus may evaporate in the politeness of a first time conversation. so i should be prepared if someone misunderstands me and wants to be portrayed as an indoorsy hermit. discovering a niche is what to sell nowadays.
so what am i going to do when the pop of a flash resting on top the camera, as lazy as a microwave, exerts itself as if it knows how to light my subject?
(i hope to have learned by now) i would plant the flash elsewhere, a coiled wire ready to trip any intruder between me and it's pinata stronghold. (i hope to have learned by now) i would wrap the palm of a rubber glove around it, the allergic latex fingers brushed back like sturdy hair plugs not to interfere with the consistency of a diffuser. (i hope to have learned by now) you may decide not to pay me in fives tens and twenties because the job was shot on film, handed over in a closed off canister with a prankster smirk that reads: take it to not only walgreens but cvs, duane read and rite-aid when they are closed and shove it through their overnight drop off slot, creative directions on the envelope only--no contact information--scribbled in sharpie marker: turn me into grey scale to satisfy my craving for abstraction. (i hope to have learned by now) to prevent the inevitable of bargaining image quality for lack of knowledge. (i hope to have learned by now) i've been less qualified than others yet hired to team teach this stuff before i even have the time or energy to refresh my memory. (i hope to have learned by now) sunglasses and or a cigarette don't actually make you look cool. (i hope to have learned by now) tell the subject not to stand in front of the sun.
that larger forces in life mess up my light meter is the true search for compensation. while techniques indoctrinate trial and error, you bring me closer to secrets.
Magic it is. September 14, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
well i first heard about this book on strobist. and ordered without expecting a lot from it. but it actually changed my concept and look of the light.
it is simply a must book for every amateur photographer, pros may enjoy reading also, since the book has really cool tips on it.
Excellent book for lighting (and kindle) August 9, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
This was a very thought provoking book on photographic lighting. Instead of giving you steps to follow, this book teaches you how to think for yourself about lighting. Armed with the basics and fundamentals, you can encounter a new situation and think critically yourself about how to properly light the subject.
The kindle version has the images scanned in, and they are about as good as you can expect the first generation kindle to display. The images are good enough that you can usually see the effects due to different lighting.
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