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Lighting for Product Photography: The Digital Photographer's Step-By-Step Guide to Sculpting with Light Paperback – December 12, 2012

by Allison Earnest (Author)
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  • Paperback: 156 pages
  • Publisher: Amherst Media (December 12, 2012)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1608955443
  • ISBN-13: 978-1608955442
  • Product Dimensions: 7.5 x 0.5 x 10 inches
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  • Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (47 customer reviews)
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3.0 out of 5 starsGreat info, overly poor image quality
By Amazon Customer on March 20, 2013
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Greatly informative but the publisher decided that a book on photography needed to be illustrated with small over compressed pictures that totally fall apart on my Nexus 7. Many of the studio setup shots look like over compressed, artifact-ed collections of pixelated squares barely possible to decipher. For a book on photography this is inexcusable.
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2.0 out of 5 starsGood content on product lighting, letdown by poor digital presentation
By Jason on April 20, 2013
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Content and writing provided a good understanding of lighting for products, the various modifiers used and tools you may need in the journey.
Explanations of various conditions to use techniques was described well. I got a lot of useful information and tips from reading the book.

Unfortunately the book's presentation was a major letdown, possibly an issue with the Kindle conversion, the images were small ( <200px wide almost thumbnail size) and heavily compressed with noticeable jpeg artifacts, not something you want to see in a photography related book. For comparison, this book size was 26mb whereas photography books I've purchased in the past easily pass 50mb in size, typically because of higher image quality

If I had purchased in print would be 5 stars easy.
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3.0 out of 5 starsThe setup pictures are ok
By M. Thompson on April 5, 2013
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The rest of it, is poor at best. The writing is not fantastic and the formatting for the kindle edition is terrible. She goes more into depth on the equipment you need (which is hundreds of dollars) then on the lighting techniques. Overall I don't think I got much out of it. Oh and it does not have diagrams of the lighting setups, only pictures and most of those have notes saying stuff was left out.
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3.0 out of 5 starsMediocre
By Alan Shi on October 7, 2013
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"Lighting for Product Photography" attempts to describe considerations and techniques for lighting products, although what it really delivers is simply examples of good and bad lighting with little real instruction onto the mechanisms to achieve the final result. For the most part I found this book about as useful as surfing flickr studio/strobist groups which provide a few tidbits about the lighting used in the description, and some EXIF data. You'll be left with the general idea on what was done, but not much of the thought process that led to the use of specific lights and modifiers, nor an understanding of how each light really contributed to the overall result.

The first two chapters are basically filler material, which describe the differences between product and portrait photography, and commercial vs. art photography. The information is pretty obvious and don't really add anything to the core subject of the book. Chapter three gives basic information about the qualities of light (hard/soft, colour temperature, metering, etc) that you will find in any novice photography book. The information is accurate, if brief, and will probably be of little interest to anyone that is serious about learning product photography (since this will kind of information would be a very basic pre-requisite).

Chapter four discusses lighting tools. Earnest will describe monolights vs. pack lights, as well as triggers, modifiers and accessories. This section is also pretty basic for anyone that already has at least some familiarity with studio lighting. Perhaps the most interesting part was the set of random accessories (many from a hardware store) that can be useful for a variety of reasons (like propping up lighting tools, the product, or other accessories).Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsGreat book, 24 shoots will challenge your skills and raise them to pro-level
By RFranko on October 4, 2015
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Super book but NOT for the beginner as you need above the basics in knowledge and equipment to work all the shoots. Great explanations and illustrations. Great book to use for developing skill and trying the 24 detailed case studies in your own studio. Can be accomplished in relatively small area. Recommend a minimum of 4 lights either speedlites or studio strobes like Alien Bees B800 plus a cyber commander for remote controls of lights is ideal, 1-24x30 softbox, 1 or 2-24x24 softbox, 1-2 strip 8" x 36" or larger softboxes with grids, Snoot, barn doors, Honeycomb grids, 2-light booms,2-diffuser/reflector arms, an assortment of modifiers like mirrors, white, black and gray cards, and background paper and roll of translum diffuser. Translucent white, clear and black Plexiglas bases and small to medium shooting table. 24" x24" or 30x48" and a dozen A clamps, gaffers tape, sticky tack, glue, clips and pins and definitely an incident light meter. Best to shoot tethered and to be able to see in Live View while working setup and making adjustments, adding diffusers, reflectors, flags and gobos etc. Author also list many other things you will need for on going product photography. First 71 pages are on, principals and techniques of lighting products, lighting skills, tools and their uses. Pages 72 thru 149 are dedicated to 24 well done product shots that will challenge your skills and open your imagination for shots of your own design.
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5.0 out of 5 starsThe Queen of Lighting
By J. S. Grossman on February 16, 2013
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I've always been a big fan of Allison Earnest's books - she take complex photographic situations and breaks them down so the aspiring photographer can grasp her concepts - and she is an excellent photographer.

I'd recommend this book to anyone aspiring to hone their photographic expertise - there is a growing need for product photographers in the advertising space, and there is much to learn. Nice job.

Jerry Grossman
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5.0 out of 5 starscontent and quality quite exceptional and easy to understand

I found the layout, content and quality quite exceptional and easy to understand. Venturing into my own small studio photography I know I will be referencing the publication by... Read more

Published 1 month ago by David Paul Davies
5.0 out of 5 starsFive Stars

Such a big help.

Published 2 months ago by Joanna De La Paz
4.0 out of 5 starsI learned a lot by reading this book.

A very good book if you are interested in product photography. The lighting setups are easily explained, the camera settings are nicely done. Read more

Published 4 months ago by Amazon Customer
2.0 out of 5 starsIntroduces useful foundation and practical lighting ideas specific to...

Introduces useful foundation and practical lighting ideas specific to product photography. However its sample photos and illustration notes are often too small for readability.

Published 8 months ago by Techgod
3.0 out of 5 starsThree Stars

alot of errors in this book

Published 8 months ago by Roman
5.0 out of 5 starsFive Stars

Husband likes it.

Published 12 months ago by J
5.0 out of 5 starsGreat book on lighting products.

Great book on lighting products. I have some great shots of glassware thanks to this book.

Published 15 months ago by alex ivaschenko
5.0 out of 5 starsFive Stars

great book

Published 16 months ago by J. Leary
5.0 out of 5 starsit meet my expectations

This book is good and meet my expectations. I'll look to buy some more on amazon.
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Published 22 months ago by Vo Nguyen Hoang
3.0 out of 5 starsLighting for Product Photography book

This book is decent, but not what I had expected. I was hoping for more in-depth photos of the set-ups and the why's and how's of the shots. Read more

Published 22 months ago by David Gould

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