Lighting for Portrait: Photography (Lighting)

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Summary: finally a book with decent photographs
Review: I was very pleased when I opened this book to find that the images they were showing how to replicate were actually realistic, decent images. I'm tired of the books from the 80s with poor lighting. Great descriptions, and though it doesn't really make you think on your own, it will give my students inspiration to learn from.

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Summary: An "I can do this " book
Review: I've bought a couple of lighting books that showed rather complex multi-light setups with hairlights,gobos,booms,backgrounds,barndoors yada,yada,yada that left me thinking "hmmmm,I wonder if I can do this??"
This book displays beautifull portraits with simple ambient light, single light, easy soft box etc. setups with clear setup diagrams with the portrait shown. An example, hardly ordinary, was one shot of Tony Blair where the photographer had literaly 180 seconds to setup for the sitting. It made me feel "hey, I CAN do THAT!".
Simple well written for the contemplative novice(me I hope).

Rating:
Summary: An "I can do this " book
Review: I've bought a couple of lighting books that showed rather complex multi-light setups with hairlights,gobos,booms,backgrounds,barndoors yada,yada,yada that left me thinking "hmmmm,I wonder if I can do this??"
This book displays beautifull portraits with simple ambient light, single light, easy soft box etc. setups with clear setup diagrams with the portrait shown. An example, hardly ordinary, was one shot of Tony Blair where the photographer had literaly 180 seconds to setup for the sitting. It made me feel "hey, I CAN do THAT!".
Simple well written for the contemplative novice(me I hope).

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Summary: BUGMAN840
Review: MY FIRST PORTRAIT LIGHT BOOK, IT IS ONE I'LL KEEP AND LEARN FROM FOR YEARS. I AM NOW STUDYING THIS AREA IN COLLEGE AND IT REALLY HELPS IN CLIMBING THE LEARNING CURVE.

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Summary: Got this book and was quite dissapointed by
Review: selection of pictures for this book. It can possibly suite a specific taste, but me personally did not like it. There were just couple of portraits which I really liked, so I decided it's too expensive to keep a book for a couple of photos, so I sent the book back.