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Better Available Light Photography [Paperback]

Joe Farace (Author), Barry Staver (Author)
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0240803353 978-0240803357 November 16, 1998
Better Available Light Photography is a practical guide to understanding the different kinds of lighting challenges that exist and how to overcome them in order to create great photographs. This includes photographing indoor sports, night sporting events, and special activities such as plays, holiday lights, and fireworks. User-friendly and full of practical advice, this book will help both amateur and professional photographers create quality images under less than perfect available light situations.



Often the most difficult, yet most rewarding, images are created when photographers are working under difficult lighting conditions. First, there is the challenge of meeting and overcoming technical obstacles that normally might prevent you from producing a well-exposed photograph. Second, photographs made under lighting conditions different from the "F16 and the sun over your right shoulder" instruction-sheet standard are more interesting.

Better Available Light Photography is written for the amateur or aspiring professional photographer who has been frustrated in trying to create useful images under less than optimum lighting conditions. This includes photographing sports indoors, night sporting events, special activities such as plays, holiday lights and even fireworks. User friendly and full of real world advice, this book will help readers discover the joys of creating images when photographic conditions are at their most difficult.



· Experience-based solutions to lighting problems
· Offers a broad sampling of different lighting conditions
-8 page color insert


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Often the most difficult, yet most rewarding, images are created when photographers are working under difficult lighting conditions. First, there is the challenge of meeting and overcoming technical obstacles that normally might prevent you from producing a well-exposed photograph. Second, photographs made under lighting conditions different from the "F16 and the sun over your right shoulder" instruction-sheet standard are more interesting. Better Available Light Photography is written for the amateur or aspiring professional photographer who has been frustrated in trying to create useful images under less than optimum lighting conditions.

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Often the most difficult-yet most rewarding-images are created when photographers are working under difficult lighting conditions. First, there is the challenge of meeting and overcoming technical obstacles that might prevent you from producing a well-exposed photograph. Second, photographs made under lighting conditions different from the "F16 and the sun over your right shoulder" instruction-sheet standard are more interesting.

Better Available Light Photography is written for the amateur or aspiring professional photographer who has been frustrated in trying to create useful images under less than optimum lighting conditions. If you have tried to photograph indoor sports, special events such as plays and dance recitals, holiday lights and fireworks, and have been frustrated by these experiences, the tips, tools and techniques shared in this book will help you improve all of your available light photographs.

Better Available Light Photography is illustrated throughout with real world, once-in-a-lifetime shots that were captured under difficult lighting and logistical conditions. The authors' practical advice, based on years of professional experience, will help readers discover the joy of creating images when lighting conditions are at their most difficult.


Product Details

  • Paperback: 156 pages
  • Publisher: Focal Press (November 16, 1998)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0240803353
  • ISBN-13: 978-0240803357
  • Product Dimensions: 9.9 x 7.1 x 0.4 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
  • Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,925,876 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1.0 out of 5 stars No follow through., July 12, 2001
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I expected a lesson in advanced photography. The text was informative, the photographs were not. Many example photographs that were supposed to instruct me in the use of colored gels on flashes or lights were printed in black and white! What a disappointment!
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13 of 18 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars nice book, but..., June 22, 1999
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i would have appreciated more than what basically amounts to a beautifully written and presented Nikon sales pitch.

This book seems geared more toward people with extradisposable incomes or professionally funded camera setups, not an avid amateur enthusiasts.

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8 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars great ideas about available light photography, November 9, 1998
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The book does an excellent job of taking the photographer behind the camera. It does this by explaining how the photographs are made.

It is a defenite buy for anyone wanting to improve their skills in low light photography.

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