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David Busch's Quick Snap Guide To Lighting | 
 enlarge | Author: David D. Busch
Publisher: Course Technology PTR
Category: Book
List Price: $29.99
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Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 142649
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Pages: 202
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 7.5 x 0.7
ISBN: 1598635484
Dewey Decimal Number: 338
EAN: 9781598635485
ASIN: 1598635484
Publication Date: October 2, 2008
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Product Description
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.
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So you want to know about lighting! December 22, 2008
Andrew Nakhla (Wisconsin)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I bought this book because I wanted to know more about lighting techniques with external flash and studio lighting.
This book has been very helpful in showing me how to take a variety of photos in various lighting situations. It is very easy to read and you don't need to read it from cover to cover. You can skip to the section that you are interested in.
I rented some studio lights from lensrentals.com and used the techniques shown in this book to take some very professional looking photos.
At last! An introductory guide to lighting! October 25, 2008
Nelson Mills (Boston)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I purchased this book after meeting the author at his booth at PhotoPlus Expo in NYC, and found him to be as knowledgeable and engaging in person as he is on the printed page. I had read two of his other books when I was learning how to use my Nikon D60, and got this one now that I am ready to branch out and (hopefully) master the use of available light, electronic flash, and multiple light sources.
I've managed to read through it quickly, as the ideas and techniques are presented in a clear no nonsense way with lots of photos that illustrate types of lighting and their effects. Now I plan to go through and study it. I'm no professional (and do not plan to be), but I'm confident that this book will help me take pictures that look pro in every way. The illustrations are great, but I know I can do just as well myself once I've learnt the lessons this little book provides.
Absolutely perfect beginner's guide to lighting! October 15, 2008
Terrence (Solon)
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
This book is aimed squarely at avid photographers who are ready to use more advanced lighting techniques, but who need some gentle hand-holding, basic introductions to the terms and concepts of lighting, and lots of visual aids that let them see exactly what a particular lighting technique will do.
Like the other Quick Snap Guide I purchased from this author, this one is designed with each topic presented on a pair of facing pages, each with several illustrations, bullet points, tips, and interesting sidebars that explain the key things you need to know about that topic.
For example, in the first few chapters you learn about high contrast lighting, low contrast lighting, high-key, low-key, and using exposure. Later chapters offer pairs of pages that show all the various lighting tools, including reflectors, umbrellas, soft boxes, electronic flash. I especially loved the chapters on portrait lighting, lighting for action photography, macros, and travel. In the portrait lighting chapter, Busch uses photos to show how to set up split lighting, short lighting, broad lighting, butterfly lighting, Rembrandt lighting, and other effects so that anybody can do it.
All chapters with specific lighting techniques use example photos and a "How It's Lit" diagram that shows exactly how the lights were placed to achieve that effect. Beginners can graduate to advanced lighting effects without being snowed under by a lot of technical jargon and confusing explanations. This is really a very visual, Scott Kelby-like introduction to lighting.
That said, I need to point out that this book is a comprehensive introduction to lighting, but it doesn't cover every possible lighting technique, nor is it aimed at pros who are already familiar with studio lighting. I recommend it for beginners and intermediate photographers who want to feel comfortable and confident in their use of available light, electronic flash, continuous lighting, and multiple light sources.
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