p.1 #1 · Any good books to learn studio lighting and flash photography?
i want to learn about studio lighting and general flash photography.
Any good books that I can refer to? I know it would be best to actually work and learn at a studio but my situation doesn't allow me to, so for now I would have to learn from a book.
Let me know if there's a good book about studio lighting.
Thanks!
p.1 #4 · Any good books to learn studio lighting and flash photography?
Try Speedliter's Handbook by Syl Arena and On-camera Flash, Techniques for digital wedding and portrait photography by Neil van Niekerk. Hope those help
Once you've mastered the concepts of LS&M you'll understand how light behaves, and how to get it to behave the way you want it to. You'll then be better prepared for more-specific training related to your specialty.
If you do want to do portraits, I suggest Monte Zucker's Portrait Photography Handbook as a primer on the basics of classic posing and lighting.
With a firm grasp of the traditional lighting schemes you'll be able to modify them to fit your personal style and vision, but won't have wasted time and resources reinventing the wheel.
I have a couple of books each by Syl Arena and Neil van Niekerk, and while I think they're valuable resources, I wouldn't consider them to be devoted to studio photography as much as to location photography. I'd still recommend them, but not until you've read the first two I named.
p.1 #6 · Any good books to learn studio lighting and flash photography?
thanks everyone for the suggestions.
Thanks Brian for the links. I think I'm definitely going to order the LS&M.
I'm mostly going to do portrait photography.
p.1 #7 · Any good books to learn studio lighting and flash photography?
jaehoppa wrote:
...I'm mostly going to do portrait photography.
Monte Zucker's book would be a good one, then, after LS&M. He uses some non-standard terminology that he developed over his many years in the business -- shooting as well as teaching -- but none of it is contradictory to other terms you'll come across, just different. It all makes perfect sense when you think about it.
One of the strengths of his approach is that he delves into facial analysis; not just how to light a portrait subject, but why you'd light one person one way and another person another way. It's good stuff.
He's no longer with us, so no more seminars, but the book comes as close as we can get.
p.1 #9 · Any good books to learn studio lighting and flash photography?
Depends if you want to learn hot shoe flashes or studio strobes. Thought quite similar in end results technique wise Sly's book will be totally different than say Chris Grey's Studio Portraiture books.
p.1 #12 · Any good books to learn studio lighting and flash photography?
I am learning a lot from Mr. chuck's website on lighting in addition to the the list already given above, like strobist.com, LS&M etc., http://photo.nova.org/
If you are using canon flash, then http://photo.nova.org/#Canon
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p.1 #13 · Any good books to learn studio lighting and flash photography?
If you are interested in a DVD on Studio Lighting check out:
www.photographydvds.com
or
www.photocardapps.com for the electronic version of the lighting cards that come with the DVD.
p.1 #14 · Any good books to learn studio lighting and flash photography?
monte zucker's (my uncle) books and videos are fantastic as are clay blackmores. There's a wealth of material regarding posing, lighting, angles of the face, etc.
