Location Lighting Solutions: Expert Professional Techniques for Artistic and Commercial Success (PDN Pros) [Paperback]

Jack Neubart (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 27, 2006

From assignment to finished project--how did they get that shot? Location Lighting Solutions presents the real-world projects of more than 25 top photographers, then shows how they were created. Readers see the original assignment, then follow the steps along the road to arriving at the perfect resolution: the successful final photograph. Both commercial and editorial approaches to corporate, architectural, advertising, conceptual and sci-fi photos, cars, people, and more, all on location, are covered in this practical guide. Step-by-step illustrations and lighting diagrams, plus the words of the photographers themselves, reveal the client’s objectives, the logistics and challenges of the location, lighting and other techniques used to get the picture, digital manipulation, styling, equipment, postproduction, and everything else needed to produce the final stunning results.




• Creative problem-solving approach to commercial and editorial work

• step-by-step lighting information for pros—with ideas for amateurs, too

• Tips on locations, styling, digital manipulation, equipment, and more

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About the Author

A professional photographer himself, Jack Neubart has been writing about all aspects of photography for more than twenty-five years. He is the author of Amphoto's Photographer's Exposure Handbook, among other books, and his popular column, "Technically Speaking," appears regularly in Photo District News.

Product Details

• Paperback: 176 pages
• Publisher: Amphoto Books (October 27, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 081745909X
• ISBN-13: 978-0817459093
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 0.4 x 11 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,136,148 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Location Lighting Solutions, January 21, 2009

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Jackson Smith (Charlottesville, VA United States) - See all my reviews
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I have been a professional commercial photographer for the last 13 years, and have well over 1000 jobs under my belt. So even though I did not get much out of this book, you might. That being said here are my thoughts. It is one thing to show me the final worked up photograph that looks great, I want to see the process. If the author is going to describe a rig he made out of a swingset or a counter weighted boom that would hold a model suspended in the air over a stairway, I want to see it in a picture, I want to see a diagram of how he made it. There were many instances of this problem for me in the book. I also thought that the lighting diagrams were weak. It was very difficult, even for me to get a feel for how the final image was accomplished. Well at any rate, it is not as if I am going make the effort to write a book on photography, and it is great that this one is out there, it just would have been nice to have a little more of the nuts and bolts of the process depicted. The one thing that I did get out of the book that was valuble to me is this. Take the time to more carefully scout the locations for your shoots. Although we often (if not always) scouted in the past, I am taking more time now to really nail down the shot with the AD or CD while we are scouting. I am also carrying around a notebook and recording locations I am interested in for future reference (primarily with regards to personal work).

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars location lighting, June 4, 2008

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R. gonet "Rocky" (Ann Arbor) - See all my reviews
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I was disappointed , style over substance.Plenty of interesting pictures but if your looking for a step by step guide,look elsewhere

2.0 out of 5 stars Mediocre, September 20, 2009

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For me, a pretty mediocre book. The photographers were talking about things like 'the light behind the archway', and then next to the words, the picture they were MEANT to be talking about didn't have an archway - in fact it was a totally different picture. Once... I can forgive, but it happened a few times throughout.

There are better reads to be had, this is ok if you like collecting books, and well, it is cheap.