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 enlarge | Creators: Ross Lowell, Various
Publisher: Lower Light Management
Category: Book
List Price: $34.50
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Avg. Customer Rating:  18 reviews
Sales Rank: 53311
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1st
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 224
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.4
Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 8.9 x 0.6
ISBN: 0966250400
EAN: 9780966250404
ASIN: 0966250400
Publication Date: April 1, 1999
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 One of my favorite lighting books! February 17, 2007
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Let me say up front that I view the book from the prospective of a photographer, though it does cover film and video lighting also. This book is an easy read and offers a great balance technical information and practical applications of technique. The exercises presented at the end of the book work well to illustrate many of the lessons in previous chapters and show the reader first-hand the subtleties of lighting technique. "Matters of Light & Depth" is in my top ten favorite photography books along with "Creative Still Life Photography" By Bruce Pendleton, and "Learning to Light: Easy and Affordable Techniques for the Photographer" by Roger Hicks and Frances Schultz
Great book on lighting February 9, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
It is wonderful book on lighting with lot of practical advice. I very much liked the descripion of geting started with lighting - by standing where you plan to place the light and imagine what a hard light would do and a soft light would do from that position and place light based on that visualization. Also, the chapter on 'Method lighting' is very interesting.
 Excellent Survey & Starting Point January 3, 2007
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
This is a great starter book to get if you have never done any lighting before - whether for video, cinema, or still photography. Lots of great tips and tricks that typically are missing from other lighting books. Lowell takes the concepts and precepts of lighting and presents them in abstract form so that you can adapt them to whatever lighting situation you may have. This book may not work for you if you are the kind of person who needs step by step how-to in order to get things done - in fact it is debatable that ANY book could do so effectively because every shoot is unique. But if you are good at thinking intuitively and abstractly then his presentation of the material is great because it teaches principals (with some examples) and not technique.
My one complaint is the typsetting of the book. The use of a modern typeface makes reading difficult (looks like a bodoni variant). The publishers should really re-publish the book to make it more legible.
depth of the matter is.... March 10, 2006
5 out of 8 found this review helpful
this is one of those quick fix reads to get when you feel a little burned out from your j.o.b. and need a pick me up. I opened this book and instantly started to remember stuff I learned years ago or even when I started doing this. With the combination of remembering and going through this book I started to get the creative bug again. It's hard to believe I already know most of the matterial in the book, until it is in front of me in text. This book is a huge "block" breaker. Get it.
 a List view on lighting November 20, 2005
38 out of 40 found this review helpful
I admire Ross Lowell's inventions enormously. His lights, while not as robust as others and so not so well suited to rental houses, are a great tool for the beginning owner-operator. I began with his Lowel Lights and moved up to his D-heads. I remember them all fondly, even though I no longer use them.
After many years as a director of photography, I've begun to teach lighting and have been looking at book options for my students. So far the best book I've found on this topic is Blain Brown's "Motion Picture and Video Lighting". While the layout of Lowell's book is stunning, as are many of the images, Lowell approaches each section with long lists which to my mind do nothing to inspire the thinking eye. With great respect for Lowell, I regretfully report that for me his book is for the encyclopediast, not for the emerging eye.
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