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Digital Photography Expert: Light and Lighting: The Definitive Guide for Serious Digital Photographers (A Lark Photography Book) | 
 enlarge | Author: Michael Freeman
Publisher: Lark Books
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 569502
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 160
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 9.4 x 8.4 x 0.5
ISBN: 1579905269
Dewey Decimal Number: 778.72
EAN: 9781579905262
ASIN: 1579905269
Publication Date: September 28, 2003
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Product Description
Instructive text and images of major tools and equipment make this comprehensive resource essential to every digital photographer's library. With it, they can master both the technical and creative aspects of lighting through a combination of traditional photographic skills and the limitless possibilities of digital technology. Three-hundred-and-fifty photographs--including before and after shots--and expert information demonstrate the key techniques. The full spectrum of light, and how the camera measures it, is explained, along with advice on achieving color accuracy. Photographers can experiment with natural light, bright or dim; explore frontal versus side lighting; and see what can be done indoors using window techniques, tungsten light, flash, candlelight, and post-production techniques. Here's how to make the most out of built-in and portable flashes, fluorescent and studio lights, diffusion, and every possible aspect of photographic lighting.
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 Full of good ideas September 1, 2007
Full of good ideas -- but if you want to really understand light and exposure on a digitil slr, go first to Understanding Exposure: How to Shoot Great Photographs with a Film or Digital Camera (Updated Edition).
 A superb work on the subject of Lighting...and Light June 27, 2006
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
A very tight, concise, easy to understand yet very well established book. Lark Books have a nice series on photography and should be taken seriously.
A wonderful overview of both Studio and Natural lighting. Something of a Masterwork really.
Congratulations to Michael Freeman and Lark Photograghy!
Excellent introduction to lighting March 27, 2006
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Very basic, not quite enough detail, but still an excellent introduction to lighting for beginners. You should start here, learn the basics, and then explore other resources to improve your skills.
Michael Freeman's Close-Up Photography August 26, 2004
10 out of 27 found this review helpful
Michael Freeman is the author of the "Digital Photography Expert" series. Previous books in this series are "The Complete Guide to Digital Photography" and "Nature and Landscape Photography." As the third book in this series, "Close-Up Photography" is, of course, geared especially to the digital photographer.
"Close-Up Photography" is both a how-to book and a reference book for photographers interested in close up images. As the principles of close-up techniques are similar regardless of the camera type, I think this book would be almost as useful to film users as to digital photographers.
Freeman goes into detail about the focus, lighting, and backgrounds of subjects in macrophotography, issues that are common to film and digital users alike. The remainder of the book is divided between still life setups and natural settings. He supplies how-to techniques for photographing several specific items, such as shiny objects, food, liquids, coins, stamps, jewelry, plants, aquaria, shells, and gems.
Freeman writes in such a way that even a novice photographer could comprehend his techniques and principles. Yet at the same time, there is information for the more advanced photographer. The author neither talks down to nor talks over the head of the reader. He explains many elementary things, so the reader is not necessarily expected to be sophisticated. In general, Freeman's writing style is very readable and understandable, even by a non-techie like me.
Freeman utilizes many photographs to illustrate his text. The substantial captions provide much useful information. In addition, there are illustrations showing photographic setups, so the reader can easily see how to duplicate the techniques.
Finally, Freeman has a useful index, which adds to the value of the book for me. I recommend this book for anyone who is interested in photographing objects closely. I would refer to it from time to time.
the best pictorial guide to understand lighting May 9, 2004
13 out of 17 found this review helpful
If you like "scientific" explanations, "Light: science & magic" by Fil Hunter and Paul Fuqua (ISBN 0-240-80275-6) will be a better choice.
If you're lazy and want a "cookbook", rather than understanding, search for this key word -- there are plenty of books showing a scene and how (authors thinks) lights were set for each particular picture they chosen (and, boy, how often they're wrong!).If you're ready to take a little effort to understand how lighting works, and prefer pictures and charts with short comments over any other style of explanation, this book is the best I've ever seen (and I've looked through a lot of them).
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