Creative Lighting: Digital Photography Tips and Techniques (Paperback)

Harold Davis

  • 出版商: Wiley
  • 出版日期: 2011-03-15
  • 售價: $1,250
  • 貴賓價: 9.5$1,188
  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 256
  • 裝訂: Paperback
  • ISBN: 0470878231
  • ISBN-13: 9780470878231
  • 相關分類: 設計攝影 Photograph
  • 海外代購書籍(需單獨結帳)

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商品描述

How to make digital photography lighting more creative—and less challenging!

How do you master the art of lighting your photographs? Go beyond the basics, go beyond the "rules," and get creative with the help of renowned photographer Harold Davis. In this book, Harold shows you how to break the boundaries of conventional wisdom and create unique, lively, and beautifully lit photographs.  Packed with tips and tricks as well as stunning examples of the author’s creativity, this book will both inform and inspire you to create your own lighting style.

  • Teaches you when and how to control the light in your photographs
  • Reviews the basic “rules” of digital photography lighting and shows you how to break the rules to create your own uniquely lit images
  • Helps you start building a lighting style of your own
  • Includes stunning examples of the author’s photography and lighting techniques

Whether you're a beginner or a seasoned digital photographer, you'll find ideas and techniques to spark your creativity.

Amazon.com Exlusive: Introduction Letter from the Author

Dear Amazon Readers,

Light is crucial to photography, and without lighting you cannot have a photo. But books about light and lighting come in a number of varieties. So if you are considering my book, I wanted to let you know why I wrote Creative Lighting: Digital Photography Tips & Techniques, where I am coming from in this book, and what you’ll find in it.

If there is one skill a photographer needs, it is the ability to see and understand light. Learning about the directionality, intensity, quality, and color of light is partly intuitive--but can largely be taught. Creative use of lighting makes or breaks a photo, whether the photo is shot outdoors or in the studio. Furthermore, you can’t even begin to understand how to create effective lighting until you learn to “read” light itself. Becoming familiar with light and lighting in all its infinite varieties is the first step along the way to mastering the craft of photography.

Creative Lighting covers both natural light and studio lighting. However, it is not a cookbook covering studio lighting setups; nor is it a book that emphasizes the pixels over the overall visual impact that a photograph can make. Each of the photos in this book can be used as idea generation for your own work--how you can use existing light, alter light, or create lighting to make spectacular photos of your own. I’ve included the story behind each photo in the book, as well as full technical data about the captures. The emphasis of my book is the creative use of lighting. Like other books in my Creative series, Creative Lighting is intended to be useful as an idea book.

Creative Lighting is conceptually divided into five parts. As you’ll see, there is a great deal of material, and it covers a lot of ground. The parts of Creative Lighting are:

Part I: Seeing the Light--Covers understanding and observing light and its characteristics (and applies to both studio and natural light); learning the material in this section is a first step towards becoming a master of light.

Part II: Exposure & Lighting--Details the responses to lighting in terms of camera settings because light and lighting is only one part of the exposure equation, the other side of the equation is how you set your camera to respond to the way the subject is lit.

Part III: Working with Ambient Light--Explains how to work with existing light, meaning sunlight and also mixed lighting environments, and also provides some tips for improving the quality of ambient and existing light.

Part IV: Lighting in the Studio--Shows you how to make creative use of continuous lights in still life compositions, and how to create stunning portraits using strobes in the studio.

Part V: Lighting in the Digital Darkroom—With digital photography, taking the photo is just the first part of the workflow. In this section, you’ll learn to use RAW processing and Photoshop to improve the creative impact of lighting in post-processing, and even change the entire lighting effect in a photo.

I hope you enjoy Creative Lighting. May the light be with you, and best wishes in photography!

Harold Davis

From the Author: Lighting Case Studies

Case Study: Light Through Clouds
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Case Study: Blossom

商品描述(中文翻譯)

如何使數位攝影燈光更具創意且更少挑戰性!

您如何掌握照片燈光的藝術?在著名攝影師Harold Davis的幫助下,超越基礎知識,超越“規則”,並創造出獨特、生動且美麗的照片。在這本書中,Harold向您展示如何打破傳統智慧的界限,創造出獨特、生動且美麗的照片。這本書不僅充滿了技巧和訣竅,還展示了作者創造力的驚人例子,將為您提供啟發和創造自己的燈光風格的靈感。

本書教您何時以及如何控制照片中的光線,回顧數位攝影燈光的基本“規則”,並向您展示如何打破規則,創造出獨特的照明效果,幫助您開始建立自己的燈光風格,並包含作者攝影和燈光技巧的驚人例子。

無論您是初學者還是經驗豐富的數位攝影師,您都會找到激發創造力的想法和技巧。

親愛的亞馬遜讀者,

光對攝影至關重要,沒有光就無法拍攝照片。但是有關光和照明的書籍有很多種類。因此,如果您正在考慮閱讀我的書《創意照明:數位攝影技巧與技術》,我想讓您知道我為什麼寫這本書,我在這本書中的立場以及您將在其中找到的內容。

攝影師需要的一項技能就是看到並理解光線的能力。學習光線的方向性、強度、質量和顏色在某種程度上是直觀的,但也可以通過教學來學習。創造性地使用照明可以使照片成功或失敗,無論照片是在室外還是在工作室拍攝。此外,您甚至無法開始理解如何創造有效的照明,直到您學會“閱讀”光本身。熟悉各種無窮的光線和照明變化是掌握攝影技藝的第一步。

《創意照明》涵蓋了自然光和工作室照明。然而,這不是一本介紹工作室照明設置的食譜,也不是一本強調像素而忽略照片整體視覺效果的書籍。本書中的每張照片都可以用作您自己作品的創意生成的靈感,您可以利用現有的光線、改變光線或創造照明來拍攝自己的壯觀照片。我在書中還包括了每張照片背後的故事,以及有關拍攝的完整技術數據。我的書的重點是創造性地使用照明。與我其他創意系列書籍一樣,《創意照明》旨在作為一本創意點子書。

《創意照明》在概念上分為五個部分。正如您所看到的,這是一個非常豐富的內容,涵蓋了很多範疇。《創意照明》的部分包括:

第一部分:《看見光線》-介紹了理解和觀察光線及其特性(適用於工作室和自然光)的內容;學習本部分的內容是成為光線大師的第一步。

第二部分:《曝光與照明》-詳細介紹了相機設置對光線的響應,因為光線和照明只是曝光方程式的一部分,另一部分是根據被拍攝對象的照明方式設置相機的方式。

第三部分:《使用環境光》-解釋了如何使用現有光線,包括陽光和混合照明環境,並提供了改善環境和現有光線質量的一些技巧。

第四部分:《工作室照明》-向您展示如何在靜物構圖中創造性地使用連續光線,以及如何使用照明創造令人驚嘆的肖像照片。

無論您是初學者還是經驗豐富的數位攝影師,您都會找到激發創造力的想法和技巧。