Product Description
Light is the key element of photography, and understanding the principles of light’s color, temperature, intensity, direction, and quality is extremely important in taking quality photos. This book shows how to control these principles to achieve high-quality artistic and commercial photographs of people. The numerous examples and illustrations demonstrate set-ups and results, and the exercises provide practice on the techniques described. With the advice in this bo… More >>
Lighting for People Photography
Tags: color temperature, commercial photographs, element, exercises, illustrations, intensity, LIGHTING, People, photographs of people, Photography, quality photos, ups
#1 by Kari Piispanen on April 17, 2010 - 1:15 am
The book is a great, solid and basic book. It gives all the basic information what other books many times take as selfevident. It has exercises which help you get the idea even when you just imagine them. With this you get the basics in very perfect shape and its a great start. Then you can go on and start to improvise. This is the first choice of books to buy.
Rating: 5 / 5
#2 by robert brown on April 17, 2010 - 2:43 am
This book rocks. Crain covers controlling light better than all of the other books I have read. His obvious knowledge of equipmnet for controlling light is superb. I especially liked the end-of-chapter assignments to help me really integrate this information. Let me know when his next book is due. The helpful demonstration of the equipment necessary to do this level of work is a real plus.
Rating: 5 / 5
#3 by Stephen P Seal on April 17, 2010 - 5:33 am
Crains Explanations of balancing ambient and flash lighting are well defined and masterfully illustrated. I find that the more I learn, the more I refer to this text. I do find that this book is a little light on technical specifics. If you can reccomend a good one email: spseal@aol.com.
Rating: 4 / 5
#4 by cbarrphoto@aol.com on April 17, 2010 - 5:48 am
The bad news here is that this book falls so short of meeting the promises of the synopsis and Midwest Book Review that one has to wonder if both were not just copied from the publisher’s press release. The good news is that Amazon.com has a great return policy.
The photography “secrets” revealed in this book are no secrets at all. Rather the reader gets only the most basic of photographic information supported by mediocre photography (at best). In some cases, I found the photography to be illustrating something completely different from what the author was describing (e.g. see Rembrandt lighting example).
I could not recommend this book to anyone over the age of 13.
Rating: 1 / 5