Picture Perfect Lighting: An Innovative Lighting System for Photographing People (Paperback)

Roberto Valenzuela is a photographer and educator who has a talent for identifying areas where photographers regularly hit roadblocks and a passion for developing clear and concise systems that allow photographers to break through those barriers and become better, more confident practitioners of their craft. His two previous books, Picture Perfect Practice and Picture Perfect Posing, shattered the mold of instructional photography books as they empowered readers to advance their composition and posing skills. Picture Perfect Lighting, the third book in the Picture Perfect series, brings that same spirit and approach to teaching lighting. With it, Roberto empowers photographers to embrace lighting as a source of creativity and expression in service of their vision for the image.

In Picture Perfect Lighting, Roberto has created a truly original system for understanding and controlling light in photography. After discussing the universal nature of light, Roberto introduces the five key behaviors of light, which are essential to understand in order to improve your knowledge of light. With those behaviors established, Roberto introduces his concept of “circumstantial light,” an ingenious way of examining and breaking down the light around you in any given situation. Providing a detailed analysis of circumstantial light, Roberto develops the top ten circumstantial light elements you need to know in order to fully harness the power of the light around you to create an image that is true to your vision.

But how will you know if the circumstantial light is enough? The final piece of the Picture Perfect Lighting system is Roberto’s “lighting benchmark test,” a brilliant method for determining the quality of the light in any given situation. It is with the lighting benchmark test that you will determine if and when you need to use “helper light,” the light that is needed or manipulated in order to “help” the circumstantial light so that your vision comes to life. Helper light is created with diffusers, reflectors, flashes, strobes, and light modifiers. Picture Perfect Lighting covers all of this in depth.

Don’t limit yourself to using only one kind of light, and don’t depend on Photoshop actions and plug-ins to create the “wow” factor in your images. That is the job of light. With Picture Perfect Lighting by your side, you will learn to master light. With that mastery, you will finally have the ability to create that true “wow” factor in camera―and in your photographs.

Roberto Valenzuela是一位攝影師和教育家，他擅長辨識攝影師常遇到的困境，並熱衷於開發清晰簡潔的系統，讓攝影師能夠突破這些障礙，成為更好、更自信的工匠。他的前兩本書，《完美練習》和《完美造型》，打破了教學攝影書籍的模式，使讀者能夠提升他們的構圖和造型技巧。《完美照明》是《完美》系列的第三本書，以同樣的精神和方法來教授照明技巧。在這本書中，Roberto鼓勵攝影師將照明視為創造力和表達的來源，以實現他們對影像的願景。

在《完美照明》中，Roberto創造了一個真正獨特的照明理解和控制系統。在討論光的普遍性之後，Roberto介紹了光的五個關鍵行為，這些行為對於提高對光的認識至關重要。在確立了這些行為之後，Roberto介紹了他的“情境光”概念，這是一種研究和分解任何情況下你周圍的光的巧妙方法。通過對情境光的詳細分析，Roberto發展了你需要了解的十個情境光元素，以充分利用周圍的光的力量，創造出符合你願景的影像。

但是，你如何知道情境光是否足夠？《完美照明》系統的最後一部分是Roberto的“照明基準測試”，這是一種判斷任何情況下光的質量的優秀方法。通過照明基準測試，你將確定何時需要使用“輔助光”，即需要或操縱的光，以使情境光“幫助”你的願景實現。輔助光可以通過擴散器、反射板、閃光燈、閃光燈和光線調節器來創造。《完美照明》深入介紹了所有這些內容。

不要局限於只使用一種光源，也不要依賴於Photoshop的操作和插件來創造你的影像中的“驚艷”效果。這是光的工作。有了《完美照明》的指導，你將學會掌握光。通過這種掌握，你終於將能夠在相機和照片中創造出真正的“驚艷”效果。