Master Lighting Guide for Portrait Photographers
by: Christopher Grey
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Time-tested lighting strategies that will improve the quality of a portrait are detailed in this book for beginning photographers. Terminology used by industry pros is explained, the equipment needed to create professional results is outlined, and the unique role that each element of the lighting setup plays in the studio is explored. Photographers learn how color, direction, form, and contrast affect the final portrait. The concise text, photo examples, and lighting diagrams enable photographers to easily achieve traditional lighting styles that have been the basis of good portraiture since the advent of the art.
Time-tested lighting strategies that will improve the quality of a portrait are detailed in this book for beginning photographers. Terminology used by industry pros is explained, the equipment needed to create professional results is outlined, and the unique role that each element of the lighting setup plays in the studio is explored. Photographers learn how color, direction, form, and contrast affect the final portrait. The concise text, photo examples, and lighting diagrams enable photographers to easily achieve traditional lighting styles that have been the basis of good portraiture since the advent of the art.
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Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: 
- Best lighting book that I've read,
Best book on portrait lighting. Very good and detailed explamation of setups and lighting ratios.
Rating: - An excellent kick-off
If you wish to go into portrait photography a bit more seriously, this is a tremendously good book to start. It's starts from the very basic, and goes thouroghly through the first steps necessarry for understanding studio lighting. After the basic lightings, it gives a brief outlook to some more advanced techniques.
The step-by step instructions and the wide variety of example photos also make this book a must for a professional wannabe.
Rating: 
- so so
I agree with another poster who noted that the images selected for the book are rather dull.If you don't like the photos, why would you want to copy the technique?Another complaint is that the images used to show progression of lighting set-ups are often so different from one another, especially in poses and attire it becomes difficult to discern the subtle changes in lighting -- when the subject of the photo changes from image to image, it is difficult to see exactly how the lighting has changed ... Read More
Rating: 
- Good lighting style guide
This book covers all of the most popular lighting styles for portraits.I've yet to practice all of them but the diagrams are nice to see and I believe this book will help me to improve my photography by being able to offer more variety in my photography.It's a pretty good guide.
Rating: - Very, Very Informative and technical but needs just a bit more editing.
Let me first say that if you want a thorough and exhaustive explanation on portrait lighting this is it. The only reason for not giving it 5 stars is that it would have been good to create a separate chapter on "Challenging Portraits" such as wrinkled faces, big noses, double chins, etc. They are mentioned in the book but really more of an afterthought and sprinkled around. Also, all of the people in this book are basically "models" but real world dictates you won't be shooting your ideally "proportional" ... Read More
- Best lighting book that I've read,Best book on portrait lighting. Very good and detailed explamation of setups and lighting ratios.
- An excellent kick-offIf you wish to go into portrait photography a bit more seriously, this is a tremendously good book to start. It's starts from the very basic, and goes thouroghly through the first steps necessarry for understanding studio lighting. After the basic lightings, it gives a brief outlook to some more advanced techniques.
The step-by step instructions and the wide variety of example photos also make this book a must for a professional wannabe.
- so soI agree with another poster who noted that the images selected for the book are rather dull.If you don't like the photos, why would you want to copy the technique?Another complaint is that the images used to show progression of lighting set-ups are often so different from one another, especially in poses and attire it becomes difficult to discern the subtle changes in lighting -- when the subject of the photo changes from image to image, it is difficult to see exactly how the lighting has changed ... Read More
- Good lighting style guideThis book covers all of the most popular lighting styles for portraits.I've yet to practice all of them but the diagrams are nice to see and I believe this book will help me to improve my photography by being able to offer more variety in my photography.It's a pretty good guide.
- Very, Very Informative and technical but needs just a bit more editing.Let me first say that if you want a thorough and exhaustive explanation on portrait lighting this is it. The only reason for not giving it 5 stars is that it would have been good to create a separate chapter on "Challenging Portraits" such as wrinkled faces, big noses, double chins, etc. They are mentioned in the book but really more of an afterthought and sprinkled around. Also, all of the people in this book are basically "models" but real world dictates you won't be shooting your ideally "proportional" ... Read More
