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| Light: Science and Magic: An Introduction to Photographic Lighting | 
 enlarge | Authors: Fil Hunter, Steven Biver, Paul Fuqua
Publisher: Focal Press
Category: Book
List Price: $39.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (89 reviews)
Sales Rank: 1046
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Edition: 3rd
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 320
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.4
Dimensions (in): 9.7 x 7.4 x 0.7
ISBN: 0240808193
Dewey Decimal Number: 771
EAN: 9780240808192
ASIN: 0240808193
Publication Date: March 21, 2007
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Product Description
An amazing (and some would say magical) resource on photographic lighting that has been talked about in the community and recommended for years. This highly respected guide has been thoroughly updated and revised for content and design - it is now produced in full color! It introduces a logical theory of photographic lighting so if you are starting out in photography you will learn how to predict results before setting up lights. This is not primarily a how-to book with only set examples for you to copy. Rather, Light: Science and Magic provides you with a comprehensive theory of the nature and principles of light to allow you to use lighting to express your own creativity.
Numerous photographs and illustrations provide clear examples of the theories, while sidebars highlight special lighting questions. Expanded chapters on available light in portraiture, as well as new information on digital equipment and terminology make this a must have update!
*New four color art package with contemporary lighting examples
*Based on the behaviour of light
*Theory book for serious photographers
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| Customer Reviews: Read 84 more reviews...
Excellent book for lighting (and kindle) August 9, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This was a very thought provoking book on photographic lighting. Instead of giving you steps to follow, this book teaches you how to think for yourself about lighting. Armed with the basics and fundamentals, you can encounter a new situation and think critically yourself about how to properly light the subject.
The kindle version has the images scanned in, and they are about as good as you can expect the first generation kindle to display. The images are good enough that you can usually see the effects due to different lighting.
Great book July 17, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
haven't finished the book yet but it's very intresting and full of useful information,some of the stuff that i alresdy knew but didn't how to apply to photography, so it was great to have such a book to put it words, learned alot from it.
 What does this have to do with "strobists"? July 14, 2008
6 out of 14 found this review helpful
I bought this book on Strobist (aka David Hobby) recommendation (featured in his thousand-users-per-day site).
Ok, it's about lighting reflective, translucent and other difficult subjects. But everything is supposed to be done in a STUDIO setting. What does this have to do with the "strobist ideology" (using small remote flashes for photography)?
You do need an expensive array of studio gear to make the best out of the examples and diagrams presented (even a view camera is proposed in photographing reflective objects!). And I'm serious. How can you judge the reflection of a black label over a reflective cd case without modeling lights? With "chimping"? How can you light appropriately a varnished wooden box to show texture as demostrated in the book without flags, gobos and large softboxes? With straw grids?
But, let's be real here! Much of this book's publicity is owned to David Hobby and the "strobist" crowd. But if you consider yourself a "strobist" you can learn much more by reading the articles in the strobist site. Or buy a different book. Maybe the one DH is writing right now ;)
Light Science and Magic July 9, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I found this book to be extremely helpful in explaining the physical properties of light and how these properties interact on different surfaces. The book helped me develop a knowledge of light control and how to put that knowledge to work in my photography.
Basic but the most important for lighting in photography May 30, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I have taken some courses about lighting in my country, I would like to say that I cannot understand very well what I had in the course without what this book's instruction.Every creative lighting skill should be started from here.
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