Lighting for People Photography

by Stephen Crain

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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 093626246X
• ISBN13: 9780936262468
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Amherst Media
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 8.5" x 10.9"

Customer Reviews

Begin with this

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.

Best Book

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.

I, on the other hand, found this book very helpful!

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.