Lighting Cookbook : Foolproof Recipes for Perfect Glamour, Portrait, Still Life, and Corporate Photographs

This bright new manual offers a smorgasbord of delicious ideas for studio lighting, a vital ingredient of good photography. Learning how to set up, use, and control lighting is the biggest hurdle for photographers who want to break into studio work. With the help of this expert manual, serious amateurs, students, and pros switching from outdoor to studio work are sure to become lighting wizards. Beginning with an inventory of ingredients found in a well-stocked commercial studio, every piece of lighting and equipment is presented, with a full explanation of how, when, and why each is used. Dozens of step-by-step lighting recipes come next, with lighting diagrams, setup details, and lens choices for each, plus photos by top pros specializing in major areas of studio work, including: fashion, boudoir, and Hollywood photography, jewelry and food photography, automobile photography, children's portraits, pet portraits.