Location lighting handbook : for portrait photographers : create outstanding images anywhere / Stephanie Zettl, Peter Zettl.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zettl, Stephanie.

Contributor:

Zettl, Peter.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Portrait photography--Posing--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Portrait photography.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (161 p.)

Place of Publication:

Buffalo, N.Y. : Amherst Media, c2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

On-location photographers are faced with ever-changing lighting conditions due to the time of day, the weather, or the surroundings, and this book explores how to evaluate, use, and shape the available light to get the best results in any situation. The book begins by showing photographers how to assess available light and exposure, providing information on the quality and characteristics of light and the necessary tools and techniques for measuring them. The guide then focuses on portable lighting solutions that a single photographer can use-with minimal or no assistance-to customize the given light, from on-camera flashes and monolights with battery packs to umbrellas, soft boxes, and LED video lights. Numerous examples of difficult lighting situations are offered, as well as the progression of different light sources used-both correctly and incorrectly-to capture the final photograph.

Contents:

""Front Cover""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Contents""; ""About the Authors ""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Foreword by David A. Williams ""; ""Introduction ""; ""Part One: Understanding the Light ""; ""1. Lighting ""; ""Quality of Light: Hard versus Soft Light ""; ""sidebar: Lighting Categories ""; ""Contrast ""; ""Direction of Light ""; ""Frontal Light ""; ""Backlighting ""; ""Side Lighting ""; ""sidebar: It�s Natural ""; ""Lighting Patterns ""; ""Butterfly (Paramount) Lighting ""; ""Loop Lighting ""; ""Rembrandt Lighting ""; ""Split Lighting ""; ""Ghoul/Horror Lighting ""; ""Lighting Positions""

""Broad Lighting """"Short Lighting ""; ""Front Lighting ""; ""Main, Fill, and Hair Lights ""; ""Color Temperature ""; ""Modifying Light ""; ""Addition""; ""Subtraction ""; ""Reflection ""; ""Transmission ""; ""2. Exposure""; ""Aperture ""; ""Sidebar: Important Facts ""; ""Shutter Speed ""; ""ISO ""; ""Sidebar: Exposure Tips ""; ""Equivalent Exposures ""; ""Evaluating the Exposure ""; ""sidebar: A Review ""; ""The Inverse Square Law ""; ""Flash Exposure ""; ""Flash Sync and High-Speed Sync""; ""Part Two: Seeing and Shaping the Light""; ""3. Available Light Only ""

""Sidebar: Evaluating Light """"Window Light""; ""Side Lighting""; ""Frontal Lighting ""; ""Sidebar: Window Light Posing Tip ""; ""Sidebar: Photographing Into the Sun ""; ""Silhouettes and Backlighting ""; ""Bright Sunlight ""; ""Metering Problems ""; ""Blown-Out Highlights ""; ""Lens Flare ""; ""Cloudy, Overcast Skies ""; ""Open Shade versus Deep Shade ""; ""Reflected Light ""; ""Lamplight ""; ""Candlelight ""; ""Other Light Sources ""; ""Sidebar: Canned Lights: Why They Are Not My Friends""; ""4. Modifying Available Light""; ""Reflectors ""; ""Why Do You Use a Reflector? ""

""How Do You Use a Reflector? """"Where Do You Position a Reflector?""; ""Direct Sunlight ""; ""Open Shade ""; ""Window Light ""; ""Scrims and Diffusers ""; ""How Do You Use a Scrim? ""; ""Gobos and Flags ""; ""When Do You Use Gobos or Flags? ""; ""Part Three: Creating and Modifying the Light ""; ""5. Video Lights""; ""Video Lights: Halogen versus LED ""; ""Sidebar: Battery Basics ""; ""Sidebar: Single-Use Batteries ""; ""How Do You Use a Video Light? ""; ""Sidebar: Rechargeable Batteries ""; ""6. Flash""; ""Studio Strobes versus Hot-Shoe Flashes ""; ""Studio Strobes ""

""sidebar: How to Use a Light Meter """"Hot-Shoe Flashes ""; ""Flash Modes ""; ""Manual Mode ""; ""TTL Mode""; ""Flash Techniques ""; ""Direct On-Camera Flash ""; ""Fill Flash ""; ""Bounced Flash ""; ""Not Our Friends, Part 2 ""; ""Off-Camera Flash""; ""Sync Cords""; ""Built-in Wireless Lighting""; ""TTL Radio Triggers ""; ""Multiple Hot-Shoe Flashes ""; ""7. Modifying Flash ""; ""Reasons for Modifying Flash ""; ""Dome Diffusers ""; ""sidebar: An Important Note ""; ""Bounce Reflectors/Bounce Cards ""; ""sidebar: Enlarging the Light Source ""; ""Umbrellas ""; ""Softboxes ""

""Diffusion Panels/Scrims ""

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from cover (ebrary, viewed July 24, 2013).

"Flash, available light, and more!"--Cover.

Includes index.

ISBN:

1-60895-596-6

1-60895-595-8

OCLC:

852759328