Focus On Lighting Photos Focus on the Fundamentals.pdf

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Contents v Dedication ix Acknowledgments xiii Introduction: <strong>Lighting</strong>? Why Bother? 3 Chapter 1: There’s More Than <strong>On</strong>e Way to Get Things Done 5 Built-in flash 7 Modifier 1: A mirror 9 Modifier 2: A big white reflector 11 Other modifiers: Fill light, hair light 13 Same principle: We can control the size of the light in many ways 16 Adding another light 23 Chapter 2: Tools: Now We Have Light, but How Do We Get It under Control? 25 Off-camera flash 27 How to trigger flash 32 The size of the light 35 But what if we don’t have a wall or a ceiling to use for bounce? 59 Now, get to work! 61 Chapter 3: The Color of Light 73 Using gels for dramatic color 79 Chapter 4: Light and Shadow 83 Texture 86 Why does the same light look so different on another subject? 91 Chapter 5: Sunlight 92 Found light 97 Amending or mixing light 103 Distance and haze 104 Architecture 107 Chapter 6: So, Where Do We Put This Light for Portraits? 109 Split lighting 111 Short lighting 112 Broad lighting 113 Hair light 115 Background light 116 Rim lighting/kicker 118 Butterfly/Beauty lighting 120 Low key versus high key lighting
Contents 127 The wrinkle 128 Eyeglasses and lighting: Can they get along? 131 Groups 135 Pets 141 Chapter 7: So, Where Do We Put This Light for Metal? 144 Flat metal 147 Round metal 151 Chapter 8: So, Where Do We Put This Light for Glass? 152 Dark-field lighting 154 Bright-field lighting 157 A glass half full 158 Glass and paper 160 Bottles and more 165 Chapter 9: Motion 165 A bit of motion 167 Lots of motion 171 Freezing motion 175 Chapter 10: The Future Is Now? 175 New light sources 176 Postproduction 177 High dynamic range imaging 183 Conclusion 184 Glossary 196 Index
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Diffusion The other way to make a l
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For this book, the translucent whit
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gobo to block some of that light. (
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A commercially produced wooden cook
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any glue—all of which we already
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54 We can use the grid for many pur
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56 A grid solves the problem: We ha
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Lens filters Most lens filters chan
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in Our daily lives, we go through v
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The colors of sunrise and sunset ca
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Early evening. The sun is lower in
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space. The sunlit side will be both
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What happens when we go in the oppo
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setting in this open shade lighting
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Using gels for dramatic color In th
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The photo above was done by placing
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Small lights make hard shadows. Fur
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Compare the gourd on page 81 with t
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We could solve the exposure problem
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Why does the same light look so dif
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We had to shoot the cover shot of t
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sunlight is great, and not just bec
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looks like a painting. We were too
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convert the image to black and whit
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Amending or mixing light So what do
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penetrate.) But what if we don’t
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The sky was gray. In this case, the
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Distance and haze Haze happens for
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The photo above was taken in early
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Regardless of which lighting style
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postproduction work to deepen the s
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Broad lighting Broad lighting is pr
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like to place it so that it lights
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Rim lighting/kicker Rim lighting is
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Butterfly/Beauty lighting Butterfly
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Low key versus high key lighting Bo
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We blocked the popup flash so none
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126 Light meters Do we need light m
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Eyeglasses and lighting: Can they g
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In the photo on page 128, we’ve g
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When photographing large groups, wh
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way they can get an image of the da
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est-behaved pets rarely sit as stil
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Direct reflection means that the li
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Flat metal The image below was lit
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we went ahead and put back the refl
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glass is generally considered hard
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Position the camera so the viewfind
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we could have hung them with string
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A glass half full Interesting thing
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Bottle lit with off-camera flash th
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it reflected in the bottle. In this
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A homemade flash trigger. We make o
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These photos are of a pianist known
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This picture uses two external flas
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the principles Of light remain the
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it is silly to spend hours to perfe
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all likelihood do some selective re
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Glossary this is an introductory bo
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photographer’s perspective from b
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Dodge: To lighten a portion of an i
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Had we had camera histogram display
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mirror reflector, often attached to
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minds, return to the original file,
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Index Page numbers followed by f in
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Lens hood, 99 Light amending or mix
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Sun light, (Continued) sunrise and
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