Complete lighting reference

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	• Light: Science and Magic: An Introduction to Photographic Lighting (Spanish Edition) Fil Hunter, Steven Biver, ... Focal Press, 2007 - 320 pages average customer review:based on 102 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

This is the best!

I have about a dozen books on lighting. If I could only have one, this would be it!
I plan to use the book as the text for a studio photography workshop that I'm setting up.

Complete lighting reference

I initially started reading this book as a Strobist reference, because you know anything David Hobby recommends is usually worth checking out. Then I found it to be such a complete reference to lighting, which complimented my existing knowledge, not treating me like a dummy, but also not assuming that I knew anything at all.

The authors painstakingly take us through the understanding of light from a technical perspective to how we can manipulate and control light. With simplistic diagrams teaching theory they seek to enforce the knowledge they are delivering. Their goal is not to get us to produce photographs that look like theirs, although readers will no doubt be able to duplicate every effect they teach, but to understand light by laying a foundation and building upon it in each subsequent chapter that we can create techniques of our own rooted in the fundamental understanding of light, science and magic.

This is not one of those, books that you'll just sit down one afternoon and read once. It's like a reference textbook, which you'll spend a few weeks, months and years working out and mastering the techniques. Of course you can just read it without picking up your camera, but without application you miss what the authors are trying to do.

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Remarkable Book

Great source of information without the typical ego from the authors. This info is the real deal.

Excellent book

This book is full of the fundamentals of lighting instead of "this is how I do it" promo shots that some authors use. If you want to know how light affects an object or vice versa this is the book for you. I wish I had this back in my student days...

Reads like a text book

Got this book on the recommendation of the Strobist blog. I read through it quickly and am now in the process of reading it slowly and recreating each shot.

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