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Title:
The complete guide to light & lighting in digital photography
Author:
Freeman, Michael, 1945-
ISBN:
9781579908850
Personal Author:
Edition:
1st ed.
Publication Information:
New York : Lark Books, ©2007.
Physical Description:
224 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm.
Series:
A Lark photography book

Lark photography book.
Contents:
Light & the camera -- Light as we see it -- Dynamic range -- Light on the sensor -- Bit-depth and light -- The color of light -- Color temperature, real and correlated -- Measuring light -- The histogram -- Changing sensitivity -- White balance and hue -- Exposure strategies -- Daylight -- Once source, many variables -- Pure sunlight -- Height of the sun -- Tropical sunlight -- Clouds as diffusers -- Clouds as reflectors -- Daybreak -- Golden light -- Soft light -- Storm light -- A foggy day -- Twilight and night -- Keeping pace with the end of the day -- Shooting into sunlight -- Artificial light -- Incandescent light -- Fluorescent light -- Vapor discharge light -- Mixed light sources -- Photographic lighting -- Camera-mounted flash -- AC flash -- Incandescent lighting -- Daylight (HMI) lighting -- High-performance fluorescent -- Lighting supports -- Reflectors and diffusers -- Reflectors and gobos -- Effects lights -- Digital lighting -- Camera calibration -- Fitting the tonal range to the gamut -- Changing brightness -- Changing contrast -- Revealing shadows -- Eyesight and high dynamic range -- High dynamic range and realism -- Exposure bracketing, photoshop blending -- Dedicated blending software -- HDR Imaging -- Generating HDRIS -- Tone-mapping methods -- Tone-mapping with a curve -- Advanced HDR curve adjustment -- Previewing HDR images -- Choosing the merging method -- Time-lapse daylight -- Multiple layered lighting -- Digital flare control -- Digital fog -- Synthetic sunlight -- Lighting for QTVR -- The craft of lighting -- Chiaroscuro -- Revealing texture -- Transparency & Translucency -- Positioning the main light -- Fill lights and reflectors -- Portraits with fill -- Back-lighting -- Side- and rim-lighting -- Full frontal lighting -- Overhead lighting -- Multiple light sources -- Lighting spaces -- Making light softer -- Enveloping light -- Making light sharper -- Optical precision lighting.
Abstract:
A comprehensive guide to lighting techniques in digital photography covering topics including working with artificial light and daylight.
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