Lighting for Glamour Photography: A Complete Guide to Professional Techniques [Paperback]

David Kimber (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 160 pages
• Publisher: Amphoto Books (October 1, 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0817442308
• ISBN-13: 978-0817442309
• Product Dimensions: 11.6 x 8.7 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.7 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,817,153 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Useful, but incomplete, September 17, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Lighting for Glamour Photography: A Complete Guide to Professional Techniques (Paperback)

Kimber's book is well written and readable. There are numerous diagrams showing the lighting set-up used. Why am I less than enthusiastic? First, Kimber repeatedly stresses that tungsten lights will produce a warm, glamorous image. In my opinion, so repeatedly that he excludes other, equally useful information. I also think that the quality of the photographs is not sufficiently good to accurately show some of the lighting effects. If you have access to a full studio and can test his set-ups, fine. If you don't... This is NOT the only book I'd want to own about glamour photography, although in fairness it does contain numerous good examples of effective lighting. Borrow from your library.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of the best book on the subject of lighting and Glamour, October 6, 1997

By A Customer

This review is from: Lighting for Glamour Photography: A Complete Guide to Professional Techniques (Paperback)

After reading this book I found new information that I've been able to use in my teaching class on glamour and modeling class I teach at Sac City College. When this book came out in England before it came out here USA I had to have it shipped here from England. This is because it took a whole year before The USA could see how well the author presented the Technical Data and the windows that show the layout of lighting and camera location, is above all other books on the market....

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Disappointingly small amounts of info, June 1, 2005

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This review is from: Lighting for Glamour Photography: A Complete Guide to Professional Techniques (Paperback)

If you're going to teach something about lighting, it would seem that there'd be a lot of diagrams and a range of examples. And if you're about glamour, you'd think the photographic quality and print quality would be first rate. The book is only OK; there's maybe an hour's worth of info in it. There are much better books (like Steve Bavister's Glamour and Portrait books) that are full of explanations, diagrams, and ways to think about approaching your subject.