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Usually ships in 1 business days | | | "The first book on photographic lighting that is worth using as a text. Light - Science and Magic is about principles, not cheap tricks or the authors' portfolio."
-Pete Christman, Savannah College of Art and Design.
"This revision is really an extraordinary accomplishment in offering a thorough understanding and application of lighting. The authors new approach, with updated illustrations and lessons makes for both a good read and great textbook. I would recommend this book for any lighting class, from basic to the most advanced course."
-Dennis Keeley
Chair of Photography and Imaging
Art Center College of Design
"Any time you have a book that makes it to the third edition, you have a winner."
"If you are a photographer of any type, especially on who does studio work, this is a must have reference."
"The added bonus is that the topics learned from this book will never go out of date."
-BC Books (May 2007) | | | |
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| | Product Details | | Author: | Fil Hunter | | Paperback: | 320 pages | | Publisher: | Focal Press | | Publication Date: | March 21, 2007 | | ISBN: | 0240808193 | | Package Length: | 9.69 inches | | Package Width: | 7.4 inches | | Package Height: | 0.71 inches | | Package Weight: | 1.41 pounds | | Average Customer Rating: |  based on 89 reviews |
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1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
Excellent book for lighting (and kindle) Aug 09, 2008
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.
1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
Great book Jul 17, 2008
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.
6 of 14 found the following review helpful:
 What does this have to do with "strobists"? Jul 14, 2008
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 ;)
1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
Light Science and Magic Jul 09, 2008
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.
1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
Basic but the most important for lighting in photography May 30, 2008
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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