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OverviewHave you mastered the essentials of your digital SLR camera and now want to learn how to use light as a tool to enhance your photographs? David Busch's Quick Snap Guide to Lighting provides a concise introduction to working with light and exposure, improving your photos with filters and reflectors, and transforming good lighting into great lighting, all in a simple-tobrowse book. This guide offers focused information that explains the purpose and function of each type of lighting, how to use it effectively to take compelling photos, and how to improve the lighting you find in a scene. You'll learn how to create and work with diffused light, tame daylight so your pictures don't look overexposed, the secret to multiple light sources, how to use light creatively, techniques for action shots, lighting for travel and architecture, and much more. Each topic and concept introduced is condensed into a two- to fourpage spread, illustrated with striking full-color photographs, and all the basics of light and lighting are presented. The book is designed so you can thumb through it and easily find exactly the chapter and information you are looking for. And a mini-glossary helps by defining unfamiliar terms as you go. Get ready to conquer the mysteries of light to take better and more beautiful photographs. Full Product DetailsAuthor: David BuschPublisher: Cengage Learning, Inc Imprint: Delmar Cengage Learning Edition: New edition Dimensions: Width: 18.30cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.568kg ISBN: 9781598635485ISBN 10: 1598635484 Pages: 216 Publication Date: 01 July 2008 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Awaiting stock ![]() The supplier is currently out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out for you. Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1: Lighting Tools and Accessories 1.Your built-in flash 2.Add-on flash 3.Available lighting 4.Diffusers 5.Bounce aids 6.Light supports 7.Light meters 8.Slave triggers 9.Flash brackets Chapter 2: Basics of Good Lighting 1.What's good lighting? 2.Contrasty lighting 3.Soft lighting 4.Lighting ratios 5.Lighting direction Chapter 3: Available Light Basics 1.Lighting intensity 2.Light qualities 3.Light color balance 4.Mixed light sources 5.Increasing your camera's sensitivity 6.Avoiding inky shadows 7.Light fall-off Chapter 4: Electronic Flash Fundamentals 1.Types of flash 2.Built-in flash 3.Shoe-mount flash 4.Using off camera flash 5.Using ""pro"" lights 6.Inverse squares Chapter 5: Using Multiple Light Sources 1.Multiple source advantages 2.Lighting ratios 3.Balancing light 4.Main light/key light 5.Fill light 6.Background light 7.Hair light 8.Spot lights 6.Reflectors/deflectors Chapter 6: Lighting Setups 1.Basic lighting fundamentals 2.Setting up lights 3.Short lighting 4.Broad lighting 5.Butterfly lighting 6.Side lighting 7.Back lighting 8.Glamour lighting 9.Paramount lighting Chapter 7: Lighting and Action 1.Lighting indoor sports 2.Lighting outdoors 3.Flash vs. existing light 4.Rear-sync 5.Front-sync 6.Lighting for long/short action exposures 7.Light fall-off in action Chapter 8: Close-up and Macro Lighting 1.Lighting and depth-of-field 2.Lighting for close-ups 3.Available lighting 4.Flash lighting 5.Ringlights 6.Creative close-up lighting Chapter 9: Lighting for Travel and Architecture 1.Lighting interiors 2.Handling mixed lighting 3.Urban lighting 4.Night lighting effects 5.Monuments and museums 6.Beaches and snow 7.Fill flash 8.Traveling light with your lights Mini-Glossary IndexReviewsAuthor InformationWith more than a million books in print, David D. Busch is the world's #1 selling digital camera guide author, and the originator of popular digital photography series like David Busch's Pro Secrets and David Busch's Quick Snap Guides. He has written more than a dozen hugely successful guidebooks for Canon and Canon digital SLR models, as well as many popular books devoted to dSLRs, including Mastering Digital SLR Photography, Second Edition, and Digital SLR Pro Secrets. As a roving photojournalist for more than twenty years, he illustrated his books, magazine articles, and newspaper reports with award-winning images. He's operated his own commercial studio, suffocated in formal dress while shooting weddings-for-hire, and shot sports for a daily newspaper and upstate New York college. His photos and articles have appeared in Popular Photography & Imaging, The Rangefinder, The Professional Photographer, and hundreds of other publications. He has also reviewed dozens of digital cameras for CNet and Computer Shopper, and his advice has been featured in National Public Radio's ""All Tech Considered."" When About.com named its top five books on Beginning Digital Photography, debuting at the #1 and #2 slots were Busch's Digital Photography All-In-One Desk Reference for Dummies and Mastering Digital Photography. During the past year, he's had as many as five of his books listed in the Top 20 of Amazon.com's Digital Photography Bestseller list--simultaneously! Busch's 120-plus other books published since 1983 include bestsellers like David Busch's Quick Snap Guide to Digital SLR Lenses. Visit his website at http: //www.dslrguides.com. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |