Lighting category: 116 books
Get The Picture
150+ Ways to Make the Most of Your Camera
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
Whether you just bought a brand-new, shiny DSLR or ILC or want to make the most of a secondhand model, you’re in good hands with The Beginners' Photography Handbook, the latest, most up-to-date guide on digital photography—all from the experts at Popular Photography magazine. Today’s technology...
by David Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
The definitive guide to taking photos in low light conditions or at night
Photographs captured in low light conditions, or even in the dark of night, can be powerfully dramatic, sensually moody, or vibrant and glistening with the illumination of stars, streetlamps, or other artificial lighting....
Sculpting with Light
Techniques for Portrait Photographers
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2008
Techniques for creating flawless lighting show photographers of all levels how to take full control of their photographic atmosphere in this indispensable guide. Illustrating the physics that govern light; the visual difference between the eye and camera; the qualities of incident and reflected light;...
The BetterPhoto Guide to Photographing Light
Learn to Capture Stunning Light in any Situation
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2012
Learn how light can breathe new life into your photos
Do you take too many snapshots and not enough “wow” shots? If so, you may be spending more time thinking about your subjects than thinking about the light. In The BetterPhoto Guide to Light, veteran photography instructors Jim Miotke...
Understanding Flash Photography
How to Shoot Great Photographs Using Electronic Flash
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2011
Flash is a necessary and immensely creative tool that dramatically increases the opportunities of any amateur photographer. However, many amateurs find flash intimidating, unsure of where to begin. Instead, they continue limiting themselves to shooting only available light. Understanding Flash Photography...
by Sean Arbabi
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2011
Exposure. It’s essential to producing high-quality photographs, but mastering exposure is difficult. At last there’s a BetterPhoto guide to exposure, packed with BetterPhoto’s signature assignments, diagrams, tips, and illustrations. It’s like a full-scale photography course between the covers...
The Art of Engagement Photography
Creative Techniques for Couples in Love
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2011
Engagement photography used to mean the traditional, conservative headshots found in wedding sections of newspapers everywhere. But The Art of Engagement Photography shows wedding photographers how to tap into a new revenue source by offering couples personalized, upscale engagement sessions and beautiful,...
The Low Light Photography Field Guide
Go beyond daylight to capture stunning low light images
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2011
Like all the titles in this successful series, The Low Light Photography Field Guide offers advice from a respected expert and professional. In this volume, Michael Freeman looks at an area that remains problematic for photographers with even top-of-the range equipment: low light.
Opening with...
Gregory Heisler: 50 Portraits
Stories and Techniques from a Photographer's Photographer
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
In this first-ever showcase of his work, Gregory Heisler, one of professional photography's most respected practitioners, shares 50 iconic portraits of celebrities, athletes, and world leaders, along with fascinating, thoughtful, often humorous stories about how the images were made. From his famously...
The Photographer's Exposure Field Guide
The Essential Guide to Getting the Perfect Exposure; Any Subject, Anywhere
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2011
Choosing the exposure for a photograph is both alarmingly simple and infinitely complex; in fact, it's one of photography's most absorbing paradoxes.
Exposure is at the very heart of photography. It has always been a subject of fascination to aspiring amateurs and professional photographers...
by Jim Miotke
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2011
Whether you have a simple point & shoot or a DSLR camera, learning the basics of digital photography can be confusing. With The BetterPhoto Guide to Digital Photography, those mysterious icons, strange jargon, and dizzying array of imaging software and hardware quickly become tools to create great...
Landscape Photography
The Four Seasons
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2013
The changing of the seasons presents the landscape photographer with nature's most dramatic sights, as well as many of the genre's most rewarding photographic challenges.
Chris Gatcum uses the work of the field's most exciting contemporary photographers to illustrate this lavishly-presented...
The Flash Photography Field Guide
Shaping the Light to Suit YourPhotographs
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2012
Shooting with any kind of flash whether a simple light on your camera, a remotely-triggered unit, or a complete studio setup completely changes the photographic experience. No longer do you simply need to be aware of light; now you need to know how to shape it to meet your needs.
The Flash...
Michael Freeman's Photo School: Black & White
Mastering the Craft of Black-and-White Photography with a Unique Approach
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2013
From timeless, elegant portraits to gritty, graphic street shots, the possibilities of black and white are endless, enticing, and exciting. Recognising this potential within every shot, and knowing the digital-editing tools and techniques to maximize its effect are essential steps to building up your...