Light: Science and Magic: An Introduction to Photographic Lighting

5 Responses to “Light: Science and Magic: An Introduction to Photographic Lighting”

1. Ariel Goldberg says:

   March 26, 2010 at 10:05 am

   i wasn’t paying attention or the information has leaked out through the trade off for real estate in my fibrous container yearning for relevancy. that is why i need you. to bolster the methods of a successful preparation. but i haven’t bought you yet. and here i pronounce indecision. there are just too many. what if i was limited to walking to the local bookshop? i would scoff at the washed up selection of used guidebooks then feel cheated by tweaked reprints of the industry standards. this industry is too huge. hypothetically, i walk home, and along the way i am taunted by the satellite dishes i wish i had already reframed (to both my community plus my unknown community) for being a completely obvious art project that sacrifices the aesthetic for the conceptual yet surprises you with anonymous racism.

   what if my search terms could have been better. what if the auto completion / auto correction was hindsight itself–imagine it: letters slowly congealing into subliminal idiom. do i keep it all-purpose, interrogative, pessimistic? “how to take a excellent picture” “photography” “light” “portrait” struggle to completion in the same suspense of watching a kid mess up at a spelling bee, going really meditative about their my mistake, sweat stains the only glory.

   once i learned through exercises how to appropriately evoke the mood of (veer’s been invented) electrical setups. it was another pad, seventeen pages in, that i was too bone idle to recycle when the storage space let out the air in its balloon. i couldn’t read my handwriting anyway.

   i really can’t stand the artificial much longer. i am preparation a buy by justification of investment. i will be ready now when the mother of some friend of mine contacts me about a reputation i had for training in this skill and therefore she’ll want to pass my name on to a name who needs headshots of their niece’s aspiring actress daughter. i will agree under the condition that the daughter will probably fail in that competitive industry and it won’t be my fault. i will agree under the condition i take them in natural light.

   technical hocus pocus may disappear in the politeness of a first time conversation. so i should be prepared if a name misunderstands me and wants to be described as an indoorsy recluse. learning a niche is what to sell nowadays.

   so what am i going to do when the pop of a flash resting on top the camera, as bone idle as a microwave, exerts itself as if it knows how to light my theme?

   (i hope to have learned by now) i would plant the flash elsewhere, a coiled wire ready to trip any intruder between me and it’s piñata stronghold. (i hope to have learned by now) i would wrap the palm of a rubber glove around it, the allergic latex fingers brushed back like sturdy hair plugs not to interfere with the consistency of a diffuser. (i hope to have learned by now) you may choose not to pay me in fives tens and twenties because the job was shot on film, handed over in a clogged off canister with a prankster smirk that reads: take it to not only walgreens but cvs, duane read and rite-aid when they are clogged and shove it through their overnight drop off slot, creative directions on the envelope only–no contact information–scribbled in sharpie marker: turn me into grey scale to satisfy my craving for abstraction. (i hope to have learned by now) to prevent the inevitable of bargaining image quality for lack of knowledge. (i hope to have learned by now) i’ve been less qualified than others yet hired to team teach this stuff before i even have the time or energy to refresh my memory. (i hope to have learned by now) sunglasses and or a cigarette don’t really make you look cool. (i hope to have learned by now) tell the theme not to stand in front of the sun.

   that larger forces in life mess up my light meter is the right search for compensation. while techniques indoctrinate examination and error, you bring me closer to secrets.
   Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
2. A. Ho says:

   March 26, 2010 at 12:24 pm

   I like this book coz’ it told me alot, but, in my opinion, it is wordy…so, if he used some pictures as a replacement for of words woul dbe better!? I judge pictures could somehow prompt better. Anywaym this is a MUST for a serious photographer!!
   Reader’s Rating: 4 / 5
3. Dosster says:

   March 26, 2010 at 3:21 pm

   I establish this book to be for commercial photographers. Over 3/4 of the book describes how to photograph glass, metal, ect. If you are effective with people there are better lighting books than this. Nothing ground breaking in this one.
   Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
4. Joseph E Plante says:

   March 26, 2010 at 5:34 pm

   I read this book- Although hard to read, the concepts are essential to understanding lighting. If you want to become a better photographer read this book.
   Reader’s Rating: 4 / 5
5. Yingyot Chanthawornsawat says:

   March 26, 2010 at 8:31 pm

   I just scan the book. I like the way the book teach how to manage the light during photographing. When I have time, I will go through deeper. Satisfied!!
   Reader’s Rating: 4 / 5