Focus On Lighting Photos Focus on the Fundamentals.pdf

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Page 2 and 3: Focus On</
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Page 6: Dedication To Polly Frye, who tirel
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Page 11 and 12: oating publications including Chesa
Page 13 and 14: Robin Reid: Trained as a classical
Page 15 and 16: learn to work with simple, dumb lig
Page 18 and 19: Chapter 1: There’s More Than <str
Page 20 and 21: Built-in flash Shot with built-in f
Page 22 and 23: Modifier 1: A mirror Having the fla
Page 24 and 25: Modifier 2: A big white reflector I
Page 26 and 27: Other modifiers: Fill light, hair l
Page 28 and 29: Same principle: We can control the
Page 30 and 31: how many pictures shouLd i shoot? G
Page 32 and 33: Later, turn on all the automation y
Page 34 and 35: can also get anything in between: a
Page 38 and 39: Chapter 2: Tools: Now We Have Light
Page 40 and 41: Off-camera flash We’ve proved tha
Page 42 and 43: How to trigger flash If the flash i
Page 44 and 45: Sounds like a good solution, and it
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Page 48 and 49: camera, we can use a silver reflect
Page 50 and 51: But what if we don’t have a wall
Page 52 and 53: Having the foam board white on one
Page 54 and 55: A black-backed umbrella is sometime
Page 56 and 57: Small manufactured softbox. A small
Page 58 and 59: Many photographers use these “sam
Page 60 and 61: Don’t overlook the possibility of
Page 62 and 63: Why would we want to do this, when
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Page 66 and 67: Barn doors A barn door is a special
Page 68 and 69: Homemade grid. Homemade grid on a f
Page 70 and 71: If the main light is a sunlit windo
Page 72 and 73: Making a snoot A snoot does exactly
Page 74: Support: Stands, clamps, friends, a
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Page 83 and 84: Other light sources are available t
Page 85 and 86: We have choices, too, when it comes
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in photographic light tables and vi
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74 Yes, of course there are also ge
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almost always surpasses the quality
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thrOughOut this bOOk, we are going
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Soft-edged shadows from large light
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Texture Subjects don’t just cast
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direct vs. diffuse refLection Diffu
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noise Noise is the worst problem an
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Found light Sometimes we simply get
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ecause the light was bounced off th
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The image above was taken in open s
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uilt-in flash for fill (maybe with
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a little more work, we can make the
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102 Focus
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Architecture Usually we want the su
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Chapter 6: So, Where Do We Put This
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Split lighting Split or hatchet lig
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Short lighting Short lighting is wh
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Hair light In the photo below, a ha
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Background light Different backgrou
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as we liked, but the setup would ha
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Without fill card With fill card So
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Low key portraits can be quite dram
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We put the offcamera flash farther
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For high key images, we almost alwa
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The wrinkle Some people are proud o
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Antiglare-coated lenses are also su
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Groups For a couple or a small fami
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By posing the people so they are fa
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Pets Pet portraiture can be challen
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So opt for seamless, if you can. Of
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overhead lighting was done with a s
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Chapter 7: So, Where Do We Put This
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The first step is to figure out whe
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So, Where Do We Put This Light for
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Round metal Just as with flat metal
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a Last touch We could have stopped
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Dark-field lighting Dark-field ligh
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Bright-field lighting Bright-field
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158 With the use of the shorter len
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Bottles and more The final image in
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So far, so good. But we’re missin
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Okay, We Want to shoot a picture of
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Lots of motion Sometimes we actuall
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In the images on this and the next
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Freezing motion We can shoot this p
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Setup for the image of the strawber
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combining these little lights on th
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a small room if it has a historic p
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We’ve cOvered a lot of ground, an
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Boom: A stand with an adjustable ar
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judgment calls. They depend not onl
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protection and rigidity. Cuts easil
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light may lead to psychological imp
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fish. This is just one example, one
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available in several sizes. Can cla
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E Electronically controlled trigger
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neutral density material and popup,
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