Digital Photography Lighting for Dummies

by Dirk Fletcher

Improve your lighting technique to produce better quality photographs

Digital Photography Lighting For Dummies features the tools, concepts, and steps you need to give your subjects a high-quality look and feel. Everyone from advanced beginners to aspiring professional photographers will improve their understanding of lighting basics as well as the parts and functions of their camera.

Explains the different kinds of lighting that different situations require and guides you through changing the settings on your camera

Shows you how to set up equipment to capture the photograph you want with the proper amount of light and shadow

Offers information on the latest lighting equipment and accessories

Includes techniques and skills used by film photographers like David Bailey, Ansel Adams, and Annie Leibovitz

Reach for Digital Photography Lighting For Dummies and take your knowledge of lighting and photography to the next level!

Genres: Photography, Reference, Nonfiction

368 pages, Kindle Edition

First published October 26, 2010

Reviews

[Anna S. · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is, overall is a good theory book. But you know, theory becomes sexy if practised. I read the early chapters carefully, and becomes bored in the middle. And then I got purchased a DVD OneLight and 'Sessions With Joey L.' that really catch my interest. They explained the theory faster, but it is no problem you can rewind it. And plus, they do it with a more practical way, they show the tools, the layouting, the process.. And it consumed fewer time than reading a book. So my recomendation is DVD instead of the book, for photogs who wants to learn strobes and everything.

[Stacey · Rating 4 out of 5]

An excellent guide to lighting and equipment, especially for those new to studio lighting. This is one of the few guides to give lighting diagrams alongside photographic illustration of the lighting plan being presented. I read the Kindle version of this book and will note that there is some confusion in places with diagram labels, as well as there seems to be a fair number of missing images. Overall though, out of nearly a dozen books I've recently used, this was the only one worth not only reading cover to cover, but the only one so far I will keep as a useful reference.

[Robert · Rating 4 out of 5]

Only had a quick read through due to time constraints but what I saw was very good. This is a technical book that would be useful in any photographers library. It is a book that I will pull from the library again, and may end up with my own copy.