Editorial Reviews
Product Description:Enhance the visual quality of your work with a solid understanding of the fundamentals, including how DV exposures differ from analog video or film. This complete course in digital video and television lighting begins with how the human eye and the camera process light and color, progresses through the basics of equipment and setups, and culminates with practical lessons on how to solve common problems. You get clear illustrations and real-world examples that demonstrate proper equipment use, safety issues, and staging techniques. This new edition is updated and expanded to include a chapter of interview setups, a color section that illustrates color perception issues, and a chapter on lighting low-budget locations.
Work more efficiently with a comprehensive guide to the nuts and volts of the trade—everything from electrical connectors to the oddball pieces of "gaffer gear." Be resourceful with creative use of lighting controls such as flags, cookies, and scrims. Develop diagnostic and problem-solving skills with a special section that tackles typical problems and helps you learn how to create your own workable field solutions.
Detailed diagrams, figures, and photos illustrate techniques that will enable novices to complete basic lighting setups reliably. Add a little natural talent and you will be able to create unique filmic lighting and dramatic imagery that adheres to the legal exposure standards for digital video with practices that include: • shooting in available light • color correction in mixed lighting situations • film-style lighting techniques that create realistic looks • specialized setups for blue screen, night shots, and product photography • lighting sets with fixed practical light sources
Customer Reviews
Average Customer Review
Great information!, August 1, 2008
By
Jordan Smith (Illinois)
I got this book out of the library to read as a preparation for doing lighting on a low-budget movie I'm planning. Long story short, I devoured the book, then had to renew it so I could read it again and again.
People with big expensive lights will love the clear use of big expensive lighting equipment.
People who know nothing about lighting (like I did before I got this book) and have no money (like me) will love the low-budget chapter, and specifically the "spit and gaffer's tape" (author's words) list of equipment for those of us without deep pockets.
Everything You Need To Know, and Interesting Too!, January 17, 2008
By
Matthew Lax (USA)
This is an amazing book. The guy is a true pro and explains everything you need to know to get takes that look professional on the first try.
The book is really well written and organized. I blows by while you learn all the hows and whys of lighting video.
I recomend this to anyone who feels that they are not at the professional level with lighting yet. It will change your life.
Enlightening book, November 5, 2007
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Christina L. Calhoun (Atlanta, GA)
Overall, I think this book is very easy to read. The author starts with the basic elements of lighting and builds on that foundation. I am using it with a lighting for video class that I am enrolled in, but would be very helpful by itself. The pictures really help to guide the process and set up your lighting scenerios properly.
Just brilliant insight. really easy to read. , August 28, 2007
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D. WellsThis book changed my perspective of lighting being a beginner and it gave me so much insight and the buzz words to work with the pros... Truly enjoyed it and refer to it often! (NO I am not the author)hehe I just really liked it. It rocks!!
A Must Purchase for the Filmmaker, August 23, 2007
By
Steve Cleberg (Somerset, KY)
Lighting for Digital Video & Television introduces the basics of lighting for film and video in a very concise and lucid manner. The information published here will serve the filmmaker with very little or no budget as well as those with professional budgets. The author presents both relevant theory and practical advice. The single best book I have purchased on the subject of lighting for video.
