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Title: Master Lighting Guide for Portrait Photographers
ISBN: 1584281251
Author:
Christopher Grey
Publicate Date: 2004-04-01
Publish: 2004-04-01
List Price: $29.95
Average Customer Rating: 4.5
Format: Paperback
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1: Master Lighting Guide
I purchased this book based on the recommendation of another photographer. I have found the book to be well written with excellent illustrations and guides. The only shortcoming, if it can be called such, is the persistant reference to film based cameras and their settings and controls. The text seems to have been written more to help someone who uses, or used, film and has little experience with a digital camera. This does NOT make the information any less relevant, just a little harder to grasp on the initial reading. With study and persistant application of the lessons, I found, and continue to find, the book to be very helpful. I am quite glad I ordered it and would give it very good marks.
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2: Really Capable and with fine and Comprehensive Setup's
This is a book that you must have, If you are interested in Studio and Portraits. As far as I red other book reviews, very often people are asking for good setups and details. Here we are with someone who was aming open the secrets. You have a lot of really good and standards examples and fine technics.
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3: Great Instruction Manual
There are only a few books that I find myself going back to reference over and over. This is one of them. Many light placement diagrams with the resultant photo make this an excellent quick reference guide. The author stimulates the reader to attempt new combinations.
My only objection is the use of many white bookends. Those are not staples in most studios. Also, reflectors do not accomplish the same result. I would have preferred more diagrams without the bookends. Maybe I will buy my own now. But, where to store them.
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4: very grateful for christopher grey's Master lighting guide
Having read this book , and put it into practice, my Flash images are improving all the time, and every time I re read the book My work gets better and better ! thanks so much Christopher.
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5: Visual learner
To those with learning disabilities as myself, having suffered a stroke, that use visuals for their input, this book was excellent in all it's methodologies of teaching lighting techniques!
First were the photos themselves, each was shown along with the lighting ratios, and the effect of the various lighting implements used for that particular mood or style of photo being expressed.
Next was a series of photos taken with the same lighting ratio, but with different equipment, showing just how illuminating light can be, and how a Softbox, Umbrella, and what have you can change and influence just how mood and intensity are controlled.
I highly recommend this book for it's excellence in handling the subject at hand...namely Portrait Lighting!
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