There are many books on the market about lighting, but this book is different in at least one major way. It "builds" from one "lesson" to the next so that if the student progresses chapter by chapter, he or she will have achieved a basic lighting technique that can be used to create the type of effects desired in portraiture.
The book can also be used as a step-by-step primer for those who are familiar with lighting and lighting setups as well as for those who have never worked with artificial lighting at all. Once you read and study the examples, you will never again be able to look at a photograph without noticing the lighting!
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Many professional photographers sometimes need to get back to basics when trying to solve a lighting problem. Amateurs most often need to familiarize themselves with the various possibilities that artificial lighting can provide in order to better their photographic efforts.
The addition of digital imagery has made learning the principles of good lighting even more important. For, no matter what the medium, application of proper lighting techniques will never change. In fact, working with photo-enhancing or photo-manipulating software packages requires a greater knowledge of lighting so that some of the more common retouching problems can be more easily solved.
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