Lighting Digital Field Guide
Essential lighting guide for users of compact cameras and dSLRs One of the most important aspects of photography is lighting, but getting the lighting right is tricky. When should you use flash? Are a camera's automatic settings dependable? Should you use reflectors or diffusers and where do you place them? This handy, portable reference will show you when, where, and how to create and capture perfect light, every time. The book includes a color checker card to help you maintain true color, as …
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- Full title :Lighting Digital Field Guide.
Summary
Essential lighting guide for users of compact cameras and dSLRs One of the most important aspects of photography is lighting, but getting the lighting right is tricky. When should you use flash? Are a camera's automatic settings dependable? Should you use reflectors or diffusers and where do you place them? This handy, portable reference will show you when, where, and how to create and capture perfect light, every time. The book includes a color checker card to help you maintain true color, as well as examples of stunningly-lit photos of people, wildlife, and landscapes to inspire you. Walks you through the essentials of lighting for digital photography Helps beginning and intermediate photographers leave the safety of automatic settings and confidently control lighting themselves Shows how to evaluate natural light, decide when to use flash, and how and when to use diffusers or reflectors Includes a tear-out color checker card to help you maintain true color in your photographs Comes in the handy, portable Digital Field Guides size, perfect for camera bags Create and capture the perfect lighting every time, with Lighting Digital Field Guide!
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- Publication Date:©2011
- Edition:1st ed
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Wiley
- Place of Publication:Hoboken
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2011
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (307 pages).
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780470949870, 0470949872
- oclc:on1049929215
- LC Classification:TR590 ǂb M35 2011eb
- Dewey Decimal:771
Table of Contents
Lighting Digital Field Guide -- About the Author -- Credits -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Understanding Light -- What Is Light? -- Ambient light -- Hard light -- Soft light -- Diffusion -- Diffraction -- Lens flare -- Luminance and efficiency -- Specularity -- Direction of Light -- Front lighting -- Side lighting -- Overhead lighting -- Backlighting -- Color of Light -- Color temperature (Kelvin scale) -- White balance -- Daylight -- Tungsten -- Fluorescent -- Neon and special light sources -- Setting a custom white balance -- Chapter 2: Camera Controls of Light -- ISO -- ISO and light sensitivity -- Digital noise -- High ISO noise reduction -- Shutter Speeds -- Fast shutter speeds -- Medium shutter speeds -- Slow shutter speeds -- Aperture -- Large apertures -- Medium apertures -- Small apertures -- Camera Exposure Modes -- Programmed Auto mode -- Shutter Priority mode -- Aperture Priority mode -- Manual mode -- Camera Metering Modes -- Scene metering mode -- Center-weighted metering mode -- Spot metering mode -- Exposure Compensation -- Bracketing Exposures -- Using the Histogram -- Brightness histogram -- RGB histogram -- File Formats -- RAW -- JP…
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