Light: Science and Magic: An Introduction to Photographic Lighting

Light: Science and Magic: An Introduction to Photographic Lighting | Fil Hunter, Steven Biver, ... | Why every photographer must read this book!

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	Light: Science and Magic: An Introduction to Photographic Lighting Fil Hunter, Steven Biver, ... Focal Press, 2007 - 320 pages average customer review:based on 106 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Excellent book

This book is full of the fundamentals of lighting instead of "this is how I do it" promo shots that some authors use. If you want to know how light affects an object or vice versa this is the book for you. I wish I had this back in my student days...

Why every photographer must read this book!

Experienced and inexperienced photographers - all those whose interest is the wonderful things that light can do - will love to read , well study , this beautifully written book which marries simple optics and photographic aesthetics in explaining the simple things like why does a piece of grey pewter look different to a piece of grey caard of the same brilliance and hue? And can we manipulate that difference?. It is all forehead- slaping stuff expaining the obvious reasons - when it has been explained to you - about why some things work and others don't.Hard toimagine anyone not benefitting from it, enjoying it, and re- reading it later.

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Incredible! Worth reading again and again.

This book is such an eye-opener. The bookmark I used while reading it was a piece of notebook paper folded in half and it quickly filled up with notes. While it is completely worthy of being used as a textbook, Light Science & Magic does not read like one at all. That is to say, it's not dry and lifeless. The ideas it presents are very clear, the text is written in a very easy to read style and the examples provided illustrate the concepts excellently. I've already noticed that I'm looking at light with a much more educated eye, thanks to this book.

Not a "how to", but "why?" book

Fantastic book. The authors don't provide you with recipes on how to do something in particular, but instead explain why things work like they do.

You'll learn about different surface properties, about reflection, size and quality of light etc. and then you will learn how to apply that knowledge in the real world.

Just great.

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Outstanding book. Everything you need to know about how light behaves with diferent objects!

Great book for any photographer who prefers to understand rather than be given ready made solutions for photographing the most demanding subjects like glass or metal. Essential for any photographers bookshelf.

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