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Very helpful - Rated
Very well laid out book with good diagrams and illustrations explaining different styles and layouts.
Highly recommended.
Good book if you're more advanced - Rated
The author is obviously a real pro.
He does give details of the techniques and lighting positions employed in the VERY creative photographs he displays.
However, I prefer other books directed at amateurs which teach a slightly lower level of creative photography together with longer and more understandable explanations and from which an amateur like me would probably benefit more.
Fantastic - Rated
Great tips for lighting. Great lighting diagrams. If you want to learn about portrait lighting look no further.
OK but not for digital - Rated
This book has a few problems and whilst the pictures of the placement of lighting set-ups are very useful the final pictures you see are not a true representation. Most of them have been taken using medium format cameras using film and the resulting print examples are more effected by processing than the original lighting. Also I am amazed at how many of them are out of focus and blurred, OK this may be for arty effect but I think you are better off getting a general photography book than buying this. Or even better go on a lighting course.
Great book, beautiful pictures - Rated
I bought this along with several other books on lighting in general and particularly studio lighting as I am setting up my own studio.
This book is packed full of beautiful and professional images from front to back. If you are looking for a book that shows you a lighting setup and how that translates to the final image this is the book for you.
A simple key is used on all images to show you the type of light, number, lens and aperture and this is consistent throughout. Shows you difference between natural and studio light and how the number of lights gives you more choice. Rather refreshingly though there is a focus on keeping it simple. Most of the images can be recreated with one or two lights and a reflector so even beginners can get started.
I have books on the technical details of light and lighting and they are very useful, but if you're more visual this book will help you along, or at the very least inspire you to shoot some great images.
