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Summary: Wow! The best book about lighting that I've read.
Review: First of all, let me say that I think this is the best book on lighting that I've read. Of course it's from the lighting man himself Ross Lowell. This is the guy that is responsible for the Lowel Light company. In the Lowel catelog, you'll find the most useful lighting equiptment you could ever ask for. This is also the guy who invented gaffer's tape. Anyway, Ross Lowell is a camera man/lighting director who's been around for a while and I really like his approach to the subject. He treats lighting as a craft that's independent of the medium that you choose. This book teaches lighting for film, video, and stills by showing you basic principals that apply to all mediums. The book is full of Ross Lowell (and other photographers) excellent photos illustrating various types of lighting. This book isn't a real easy read... at least not as easy as I thought it would be. If you really want to understand lighting, here's my recommendation. Buy this book, request a Lowel catelog via the web, read Lighting for Digital Video (can be found here at amazon.com), and request a lighting catelog from B&H. Study both catelogs and read both books. You should also try to pick up the different kinds of basic lights from Ebay so you can expiriment and do some of the excercises found in this book. This book also contains an awesome glossary that contains all the lighting terms you could ever want defined. Albeit, some of the definitions are rather useless (see Lighthand). Another great thing is that the author doesn't use this book as an excuse to plug his lighting supplies like he could have. One last thing. If you are a still photographer that only plans on using strobes for your lighting and have little or no interest in video, film, or continuous lighting... you may not like this book or find it very useful. However, if you're like me and shoot video and take pictures you'll love it.
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Summary: For anyone who has despaired about finding a copy..
Review: of this excellent book, Samuel French along Sunset BLVD still has two copies left.
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Summary: For anyone who has despaired about finding a copy..
Review: Ross Lowell is a professional in ligtning, the book is intendend for proffesionals in ligtning, but reading it is a pure delight for beginners like me. Having compared books on ligtning, this one stands out, treating light as art, as sensus, as an craft,yes. But Lowell never debase the craft of ligtning to be only angels, bulbs and watts. Why do I give it only an 8 out of 10? I?d like to have some headroom left for gentlemen like Cicero and Shakespeare. Sorry, Mr Lowell :)
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Summary: An excellent book for aspiring cinematographers
Review: This is a wonderful book, written by a master for future masters. It covers everything from basics to advanced lighting techniques with an easy to absorb approach.
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