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The Lighting Cookbook for Fashion and Beauty Photography: Foolproof Recipes for Taking Perfect Portraits | 
 enlarge | Authors: Jennifer Bidner, Eric Bean
Publisher: Amphoto Books
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  13 reviews
Sales Rank: 53332
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 144
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 10.4 x 8.4 x 0.5
ISBN: 0817442316
Dewey Decimal Number: 778.72
EAN: 9780817442316
ASIN: 0817442316
Publication Date: October 1, 2005
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Book Description
• Step-by-step recipes for great pictures• Demystifies lucrative fashion and beauty photography • Beautiful examples with diagrams and instructions—everything the photographer needs in the studio or on location Learning to set up, use, and control lighting is the biggest challenge for photographers in the field of fashion and beauty. Never fear! This book shows exactly how to become a lighting master. Dozens of stunning examples—some taken in a studio, others on location—are analyzed with set up details, lens choices, composition decisions, and lighting diagrams, plus step-by-step directions on re-creating the look. From an inventory of every essential piece of equipment, with a full explanation of how, when and why to use each one, to an in-depth discussion of the film versus digital formats, The Lighting Cookbook for Fashion and Beauty Photography is the complete guide to mastering this popular and lucrative genre.
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 The Lighting Cookbook for Fashion and Beauty Photography July 14, 2008
If at all possible, I always like to preview the Table of Contents of a book before purchasing it. That gives me a much better idea of whether or not the book addresses information I'm specifically interested in reading and learning about. So, I really appreciate it when I can look inside a book to see the TOC as well as read an excerpt from the book I want to possibly buy.
This book is very instructive and arrived ahead of schedule and in the condition as promised by the seller. I would recommend buying this book as well as buying books from this seller.
 I love the lighting setup diagrams... June 8, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The biggest pluses for me in this book are:
1) The diagrams of how the lighting is setup and accompanying sample images.
2) Inclusion of men's lighting.
There are so many books out there about lighting and a lot of them do not explain lighting in terms of gender.
 Not Quite What It Seems May 30, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
In the first chapter it mentions that you can substitute hot lights for many of the setups, yet it never shows the varriations. I am nearly half way through this book and I have yet to see a setup that doesn't involve a softbox or flash unit set. Maybe it's in the second half, but it would be nice to have the possible changes for different lighting.
The other drawback is that many of the images have been touched up and changed in Photo Shop. On some of the images they tell you directly, but on others (and there is a small blurb about this in the book), they claim the touch up was too minor to warrent a mention. This makes it difficult to know if the resulting picture is due to the lighting, or do to a computer photo editing program.
I worked for a photography company a while back and haven't really worked in studio since. I had hoped to gain some new techniques and ideas from this book, but I have yet to find anything very useful for my lighting setup. I find myself with many of the examples wondering, "will this really work with my setup and if so, how?" Even the lighting ratios are geared toward flash units. Not once have I seen any direction on how to create the same look with continuous lighting (hot lights). That's not the kind of direction I want from a book.
If you have invested in strobes, studio flash units or softboxes, then this book might just work for you.
Great book!!! March 28, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This book is awesome. Easy to follow, well set out and very professional. Great examples and photography, not the cheap, boring and outdated photography you find in a lot of the books out there. This book is filled with exiting ideas and in-depth explanations. Highly creative lighting tricks and loads more. I would highly recommend this book to any serious photographer.
A good beginning book October 10, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This is a good starter book. It begins with basics of lighting and begins to introduce more and more complicated setups.
It helped me understand the basics of lighting equipment and how to use them and this is particularly true for some of the initial lighting arrangements in both the womens and the mens sections.
My biggest criticism of the book is that it great to learn the craft, but not the art. Do not expect that this is your last lighting book if you're going to be serious about fashion and beauty photography.
My key takeaways were basic lighting arrangements for women and men, reliance on makeup artists, and basics of equipment. It's a good way to learn by copying---"If you want a shot like this, do this". The "cookbook" phrase in the title is a very correct claim. It will not teach you how to create a new recipe, but if you know what you need, it will tell you how to make it.
There's a show-offy feel to some sections which I could do without.
Someone who reads this book will be able to then move on to more sophisticated portraiture books like Grecco's Lighting and the Art of the Dramatic Portrait. I found it far easier to understand subtleties in Grecco's book after I had thoroughly read the cookbook a few times.
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