Digital Photography Lighting For Dummies

Description

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!

CONTENTS:

Introduction.

  Part I: Lighting Basics.

  

Chapter 1: Lighting: An Overview.

  

Chapter 2: Defining Light in a Photographic Capacity.

  

Chapter 3: Getting Familiar with the Camera Settings that Control Light.

  

Chapter 4: Tooling Up: A Rundown of Lights, Gadgets, and Gewgaws.

  Part II: Let There Be Light: Measuring and Manipulating Light.

  

Chapter 5: Measuring Light: It's All about Metering.

  

Chapter 7: Using Lighting Equipment to Create the Effect You Want.

  Part III: Lighting for Different Conditions.

  

Chapter 8: From Dawn Till Dusk: Lighting the Great Outdoors.

  

Chapter 9: An Exciting New World: Shooting at Night.

  

Chapter 10: Lighting in the Studio.

  

Chapter 11: Rooms with a View: Lighting Interiors.

  Part IV: Making Ordinary Photos Extraordinary with Lighting.

  

Chapter 12: Portrait Lighting.

  

Chapter 13: Lighting Advanced Subjects.

  

Chapter 14: Capturing the Action: Event Photography.

  

Chapter 15: Painting with Light.

  

Chapter 16: Correcting and Embellishing Lighting Postproduction.

  Part V: The Part of Tens.

  

Chapter 17: Avoiding Ten Rookie Lighting Mistakes.

  

Chapter 18: Ten Aspects of Light to Consider Before You Shoot.

  Index.