Customer Reviews

PRO LIGHTING SERIES: STILL LIFE

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I work as a computer artist an animator, and constantly search for good books on lighting. In my opinion, this is one of the best lighting books available to the artist, along with the classic from John Alton "Painting with Light". Still Life (PLS) gives simple explanations of light setup, digramatic views of the situation, as well as comments from the photographers about what they were trying to achieve, and why they did certain procedures.

The light setups here are easily adaptable to suit whatever still life (including products) you are photographing/rendering, and I have found it easy to adapt certain lights used into the realm of 3D computer graphics (soft boxes etc are easy to recreate....)

This book should really be part of all film/photographers/artists/animators reference material... I only wish they did a hardback version, as i fear this is going to get used very often.

Oh, the book is extremely well printed, in full colour, on good quality paper, giving an exceptional calirity of image, something unique for the price... All too often books on lighting and colour are in black and white... hahahahhahahaha.

This series has the clearest diagrams to help you understand how to set up your lighting for all types of problems and challenges. Anyone serious about learning studio lighting techniques should have these books as references and idea generators.

When you thumb through this book, your are immediately impressed with the lighting subjects included. Many are not the usual cliches found in books of this type. The diagrams and text are clear and easy to understand. Good book, glad I bought it.

Still Life and Special Effects Photography: A Guide to Professional Lighting Techniques, Second Edition or Still Life and Special Effects Photography: A Guide to Professional Lighting Techniques, Second Edition

Both the above books have the same information and more. I mean EXACTLY the same images and text, so if you already own either of those two, don't buy this one. I speak from experience!

The rotovision books are great and almost always 5 star. In this case, I purchased this book used and didn't know I was getting something I already had in my library. In this case, again, the newest of the books is less expensive than buying the used version.