Softbox Lighting Techniques for Professional Photographers

All Book Download,|  Softbox Lighting Techniques for Professional Photographers  | Softboxes—specialized photographic lighting devices that produce a flattering and soft, low-contrast look—are the main focus of this resource for photographers. Professional and amateur photographers alike will be able to apply the thorough explanations on the simple, yet highly effective, light- and shadow-altering methodologies found in this guidebook to any subject matter in portrait, fashion, and editorial images. Additional chapters cover the use of softboxes in partnership with other light sources, including sunlight and various types of studio lighting treatments.
This book is both informative and frustrating. It awkwardly tries to to be both breezy and technical at the same time and as a result often fails to properly explain technical details properly. This results in nebulous expressions such as "pop" being used to describe when a scene is properly lit. While there are many excellent photos showing the effect of varying the setup, sometimes the sets are incomplete or the captions confusing. Also there are lots of lighting layout diagrams that would be a very good thing if it wasn't for the fact that they mix top-view and side-view symbols in the same diagram making them almost incomprehensible - arrrgh! I hope there will be a revised second edition that fixes the problems because it could be a really great textbook for the advanced photographer - but it isn't that yet.

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