Lighting for Digital Photography: From Snapshots to Great Shots (Paperback)

Now that you’ve had your DSLR for a while, are you ready to take a much closer look at what creating a great image is all about? It’s all about light! The ability to see, influence, modify, control, and create light will take your images from snapshots to great shots!

In Lighting for Digital Photography: From Snapshots to Great Shots, photographer and bestselling author Syl Arena begins with a primer on light itself—how to see its direction, intensity, color, contrast, and hardness—and quickly moves on to discussions of shooting both indoors and outdoors in the many different conditions of natural or man-made light. Then the book digs in to begin creating light with photographic lights, whether that’s small flash or big strobe, the pop-up flash on your DSLR or continuous lights.

Follow along with Syl and you will:

• Learn the basics (and beyond) of light modifiers that make light bigger and softer, such as umbrellas, softboxes, beauty dishes, and diffusion panels
• Understand how to control and shape the light itself with flags, grids, snoots, and the zoom function on your flash
• Appreciate the color temperature of light (whether that’s the sun, a light bulb, or a flash), and how to influence it with white balance settings on your camera and colored gels on your flash
• Learn how to take great pictures across many different genres, from product and still life images, to simple (and not so simple) portraits and group shots

With Lighting for Digital Photography: From Snapshots to Great Shots, you’ll learn not only how light behaves—you’ll learn all you need to know to get started on the journey of creating and controlling light in order to make great shots. And once you’ve got the shot, show it off! Join the book’s Flickr group, share your photos, and discuss how you get great shots at flickr.com/groups/lightingfromsnapshotstogreatshots.

現在你已經有一段時間使用單反相機了，你準備好更仔細地研究如何創造出優秀的影像了嗎？這一切都與光線有關！能夠觀察、影響、修改、控制和創造光線將使你的照片從隨手拍變成優秀的作品！

在《數位攝影燈光：從隨手拍到優秀作品》這本書中，攝影師兼暢銷作家Syl Arena首先介紹了光線本身的基礎知識，包括如何觀察光線的方向、強度、顏色、對比度和硬度，然後迅速轉向討論在室內和室外不同自然或人造光線條件下的攝影技巧。接下來，本書深入介紹了如何使用攝影燈光創造光線，無論是小型閃光燈還是大型閃光燈，或是單反相機上的彈出閃光燈或連續光源。

跟隨Syl的指導，你將會：
- 學習光線調節器的基礎知識（以及更多），這些調節器可以使光線更大、更柔和，例如雨傘、軟箱、美容盤和擴散板
- 理解如何使用旗幟、網格、狹縫和閃光燈的變焦功能來控制和塑造光線本身
- 了解光線的色溫（無論是太陽、燈泡還是閃光燈），以及如何通過相機的白平衡設置和閃光燈上的彩色膠片來影響色溫
- 學習如何在許多不同的類型中拍攝出優秀的照片，從產品和靜物照片到簡單（和複雜）的肖像和團體照片

通過《數位攝影燈光：從隨手拍到優秀作品》，你不僅將學習光線的行為，還將學到一切你需要知道的，開始探索創造和控制光線的旅程，以拍攝出優秀的作品。而一旦你拍到了好照片，就展示出來吧！加入本書的Flickr群組，分享你的照片，並討論如何拍攝出優秀的作品，網址是 flickr.com/groups/lightingfromsnapshotstogreatshots。