Light: Science and Magic: An Introduction to Photographic Lighting
 | By Fil Hunter, Steven Biver, Paul Fuqua Focal Press, 2007, Kindle Edition Customer Rating: 101 reviews Recommend |
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This highly respected text, now in paperback, has been thoroughly updated and revised. It introduces a logical theory of photographic lighting — - one that teaches beginning photographers to predict results before setting up lights. This is not primarily a how-to book with only set examples for photographers to follow. Rather, Light: Science and Magic provides the reader with a comprehensive theory of the nature and principles of light to allow individual photographers to use lighting to express their own creativity. Numerous photographs and illustrations provide clear examples of the theories delineated within the text, while sidebars highlight special lighting questions.
Although styles of photographic lighting continue to change, Light: Science and Magic does not go out of fashion because it is not based on style; rather it is based on the behavior of light. These principles will not change until fundamental physics does.
*Now in paperback
*Highly respected text on lighting theory covering the principles, applications, and equipment for informed lighting decisions
*Sidebars highlight special lighting questions
Title: Light: Science and Magic: An Introduction to Photographic Lighting
Sales Rank: 682 in Books
Author: Fil Hunter, Steven Biver, Paul Fuqua
Publisher: Focal Press, 3rd edition, 2007-03-21, Kindle Edition, 320 pages
- Should have bought this sooner
- All I can say is this is a must have reference tool for any aspiring or pro photographer.
I learned more in one reading of this book than I learned in 3 years of trial and error.
This is a book I will read over and keep as a reference guide.
I only wished I had bought this 3 years ago.
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- Essential
- I was just telling a friend about this book and realized that I had never posted a review of it myself. What I told her: I have a bookshelf packed full of books on various aspects of photography and lighting. If I could keep only one, this would be the one I would keep.
As David Hobby of Strobist says in his review, this book does not… More reviews
- Light Scince & Magic
- Great book. I am still on Chapter 2 of the book, but a great source of information regarding lighting. Essential for people who want to grasp the concept of photographic lighting. More reviews
- Absolutely terrific - read it more than once!
- This is one of the best photography books I've read, and hands down the best lighting book! If you're new to lighting, you'll want to read this book more than once, because it has so much information! Dedicated chapters on lighting principles, reflection and the "family of angles," surface appearances, shape and contour, lighting metal, lighting glass, types of lights,… More reviews
- Very good book on lighting, personally recommend it to anyone.
- This is an exceptionally good book, written from a simple to understand perspective. I bought it on the back of the mostly positive reviews from others and I'm glad I did. (BTW, for the small numbers of critics, I'm not a "strobist", this was a new word to me I'd never heard until someone here mentioned it - but it's a useful site anyway and I don't know… More reviews
