Posted by Dan Borzynski on July 19, 2009 at 12:01 AM
(For the rest of you - sorry, I am having trouble finding his e-mail address. Jim, feel free to delete this in a reasonable period of time, email then immediately delete, or otherwise do what you decide is appropriate)
You had asked about studio lights a few weeks ago and got several responses which I believe largely answered your questions. I promised to follow up with an introductory textbook on using studio flash once I unpacked it. Here is the information for the book:
Light Science and Magic An Introduction to Photographic lighting
It does not cover things like setting up lights for a given studio setup, posing models or stuff like that. It really is aimed at helping you to understand how lighting works, how backlighting works, how reflective surfaces work wrt flash, etc. and is written as a textbook.
Good luck with the lights.
Posted by Kent Staubus on July 19, 2009 at 12:46 AM
That is probably the best text book available on the subject. Another good book is Joe McNally's "Hot Shoe Diaries." It's geared for Nikon CLS strobes though.
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2 repliesYou had asked about studio lights a few weeks ago and got several responses which I believe largely answered your questions. I promised to follow up with an introductory textbook on using studio flash once I unpacked it. Here is the information for the book:
Light Science and Magic An Introduction to Photographic lighting
Fil Hunter
Steven Biver
Paul Fuqua
Focal Press, ISBN-13 978-0-240-80819-2, www.focalpress.com, 2007
It does not cover things like setting up lights for a given studio setup, posing models or stuff like that. It really is aimed at helping you to understand how lighting works, how backlighting works, how reflective surfaces work wrt flash, etc. and is written as a textbook.
Good luck with the lights.
Kent in SD
Thank you very much for the follow up. You guys are great. I'll check them out.
Thanks,
Bill