The Lighting Cookbook: Foolproof Recipes for Perfect Glamour, Portrait, Still Life and Corporate Photographs

by Jenni Bidner

Learning how to set up, use, and control lighting is the biggest challenge facing photographers who want to do studio work. With the help of this manual, serious amaeturs, photography students, and pros switching from outdoor to studio work are sure to become lighting masters. Beginning with an inventory of ingredients found in a well-stocked commercial studio, The Lighting Cookbook, presents every essential piece of lighting and shooting equipement, with a full explanation of how, when, and why each is used.

Dozens of lighting recipies from six top pros come next. They reveal step by step how they made their shots, complete with set-up details, lens choices, composition decisions, and lighting diagrams. The foolproof recipies cover a range of studio-work specialities, including glamour, fashion, still life, and portraiture - corporate, children, and pets.

The Lighting Cookbok provides all levels of photographers with everything they need to know about studio lighting to achieve great pictures on a regular basis.

Genres: Photography, Reference

144 pages, Paperback

First published April 1, 1997

Reviews

[Mark · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a "cookbook" of many different lighting set-ups for a variety of photographs--still lifes, portraits, products, and so forth. Though it does not go into great detail, it does serve as a good introduction to the many ways in which photo subjects may be lighted

[Heather · Rating 1 out of 5]

Just too broad for what I need. It did have one section on photography moving subjects (aka: children) that was helpful, and we have already tried the lighting technique, it worked well.