David Busch's Quick Snap Guide To Lighting

by Busch, David D.

• ISBN13: 9781598635485
• ISBN10: 1598635484
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-10-02
• Publisher: Cengage Learning PTR

Summary

Have you mastered the essentials of your digital SLR camera and now want to learn how to use light as a tool to enhance your photographs? David Busch's Quick Snap Guide to Lighting provides a concise introduction to working with light and exposure, improving your photos with filters and reflectors, and transforming good lighting into great lighting, all in a simple-tobrowse book. This guide offers focused information that explains the purpose and function of each type of lighting, how to use it effectively to take compelling photos, and how to improve the lighting you find in a scene. You'll learn how to create and work with diffused light, tame daylight so your pictures don't look overexposed, the secret to multiple light sources, how to use light creatively, techniques for action shots, lighting for travel and architecture, and much more. Each topic and concept introduced is condensed into a two- to fourpage spread, illustrated with striking full-color photographs, and all the basics of light and lighting are presented. The book is designed so you can thumb through it and easily find exactly the chapter and information you are looking for. And a mini-glossary helps by defining unfamiliar terms as you go. Get ready to conquer the mysteries of light to take better and more beautiful photographs.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Lighting Tools and Accessories

Your built-in flash

Add-on flash

Available lighting

Diffusers

Bounce aids

Light supports

Light meters

Slave triggers

Flash brackets

Basics of Good Lighting

What's good lighting?

Contrasty lighting

Soft lighting

Lighting ratios

Lighting direction

Available Light Basics

Lighting intensity

Light qualities

Light color balance

Mixed light sources

Increasing your camera's sensitivity

Avoiding inky shadows

Light fall-off

Electronic Flash Fundamentals

Types of flash

Built-in flash

Shoe-mount flash

Using off camera flash

Using +pro+ lights

Inverse squares

Using Multiple Light Sources

Multiple source advantages

Lighting ratios

Balancing light

Main light/key light

Fill light

Background light

Hair light

Spot lights

Reflectors/deflectors

Lighting Setups

Basic lighting fundamentals

Setting up lights

Short lighting

Broad lighting

Butterfly lighting

Side lighting

Back lighting

Glamour lighting

Paramount lighting

Lighting and Action

Lighting indoor sports

Lighting outdoors

Flash vs. existing light

Rear-sync

Front-sync

Lighting for long/short action exposures

Light fall-off in action

Close-up and Macro Lighting

Lighting and depth-of-field

Lighting for close-ups

Available lighting

Flash lighting

Ringlights

Creative close-up lighting

Lighting for Travel and Architecture

Lighting interiors

Handling mixed lighting

Urban lighting

Night lighting effects

Monuments and museums

Beaches and snow

Fill flash

Traveling light with your lights

Mini-Glossary

Index

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