|
| 
 enlarge
| Author: Christopher Grey
Publisher: Amherst Media, Inc.
Category: Book
List Price: $29.95
Buy New: $18.76
You Save: $11.19 (37%)
New (27) Used (10) from $18.62
Avg. Customer Rating:  70 reviews
Sales Rank: 1534
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 128
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 10.9 x 8.4 x 0.5
ISBN: 1584281251
Dewey Decimal Number: 778.92
EAN: 9781584281252
ASIN: 1584281251
Publication Date: April 1, 2004
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Shipping: International shipping available
Condition: Brand New, Perfect Condition, Please allow 4-14 business days for delivery. 100% Money Back Guarantee, Over 1,000,000 customers served.
|
| Customer Reviews:
 Buy this! learn this, and kick up your quality 2 notches! December 13, 2005
34 out of 36 found this review helpful
This is a powerful, concise, and well written book.
With his diagrams, accompanying photos, and explanations, Mr. Grey has opened my eyes to light and lighting options in ways I hadn't realized...and now makes me look far more carefully at portraits than ever before, to appreciate how the lighting and well placed shadows emphasize the client's best qualities.
I confess I hesitated before buying a "mere" 128 page book, and quickly realized he cuts out the usual fluff and shares "secrets" freely. One must savor each page's wisdom, rather than rushing through it, to greatly enhance your skills.
Learn about key light characteristics, softboxes, hair lights, different umbrella effects, lighting ratios and so on...you needn't use some or all on every session, it's there to just let you know how to use these when and if a situation arises...and you'll have the knowlege of how to use them without recreating or reshooting the wheel!
Whether you are a film or a digital photographer, this gives knowledge that benefits either medium, by encouraging you to creatively previsualize the lighting of finished product, long before you click the shutter.
While it's far easier for me to properly light a subject before shooting (I am comfortable with film and slowly learning digital/Photoshop) it gives hints that can be used creatively in "Photoshopping" an image later, in the computer, to enhance a mood, or de-emphasize a highight accordingly. (Katrin Eismann's Photoshop Restoration & Retouching, 3rd ed. is quite helpful, as is Scott Kelby's comfortably cookbook aproach in his Photoshop CS book for Digital Photographers).
This is a pearl that deserves to be read appreciatively, savoring each page at a time!
Best Book I've Found for Portaits. November 12, 2005
12 out of 17 found this review helpful
Of the four books I've recently bought for potraits (Basic studio lighting, Beginner Guide to Photographic Lighting, Photographic lighting simplified, and this one) this is the best. Not only does the author go over numerous light setups, but she also provides very detailed pictures of how all the different light modifiers affect each light setup. This is also the first book that gave me a good understanding of light ratios, which is essential. Highly Recommended.
sound resource September 14, 2005
5 out of 21 found this review helpful
I ordered this book because the questions I have are tenfold-I was quick to discover that the material is a little beyond me. I still plan on keeping the book in my library; it was inexpensive and it seems well written.
This is the one September 8, 2005
7 out of 12 found this review helpful
Yes, this is the one,the author,obviously being a master photographer himself,goes through various techniques and explains what he did and why he did it,he also includes diagrams of the various lighting set-ups which are a great scource of inspiration for studio photographers like myself.I would n't hesitate to recommend this excellent book to anyone.It is the first thing I look at when deciding on a particular studio set-up.
The title of this book is exactly right... September 4, 2005
26 out of 29 found this review helpful
To set the stage for my comments, I'll offer that I am a mature man and a long-time engineer who has started taking classes in portrait photography.
First of all, for some photography books, a technical background like mine is a must. Not so for this book- it is full of information that is very clearly presented without techno-babble.
This book is an engaging read which is both instructive during the first read, and a great reference every time you pick it up.
I found it very valuable that there were pictures that showed the result of lighting a subject in many different ways with a particular light modifier. It was almost as if I had a studio with all that equipment and could experiment on my own. By the time I got to my studio-based class, I had a clear idea of what I wanted to do and how to do it.
A great buy because you will need many books to replace the insight that this single book provides!
|
|
|
Copyright 2008 - RailroadBookstore.com
| |
