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Light: Science and Magic: An Introduction to Photographic Lighting
by Steven Biver, Paul Fuqua, Fil Hunter
from Focal Press

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0

• Excellent book for lighting (and kindle)
  This was a very thought provoking book on photographic lighting. Instead of giving you steps to follow, this book teaches you how to think for yourself about lighting. Armed with the basics and fundamentals, you can encounter a new situation and think critically yourself about how to properly light the subject.
  The kindle version has the images scanned in, and they are about as good as you can expect the first generation kindle to display. The images are good enough that you can usually see the effects... more info

• Great book
  haven't finished the book yet but it's very intresting and full of useful information,some of the stuff that i alresdy knew but didn't how to apply to photography, so it was great to have such a book to put it words, learned alot from it.

• What does this have to do with "strobists"?
  I bought this book on Strobist (aka David Hobby) recommendation (featured in his thousand-users-per-day site).
  Ok, it's about lighting reflective, translucent and other difficult subjects. But everything is supposed to be done in a STUDIO setting. What does this have to do with the "strobist ideology" (using small remote flashes for photography)?
  You do need an expensive array of studio gear to make the best out of the examples and diagrams presented (even a view camera is proposed in... more info

• Light Science and Magic
  I found this book to be extremely helpful in explaining the physical properties of light and how these properties interact on different surfaces. The book helped me develop a knowledge of light control and how to put that knowledge to work in my photography.

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