Photographic Lighting: Essential Skills offers a solid grounding in the principles of lighting techniques, as well as TTL, lighting ratios and hand-held metering techniques, to enable you to become proficient at shooting in any environment, achieve creative style and master this vital skill for competent photography.
- Characteristics of light
- Exposure and light meters
- Contrast and compensation
- Sensitivity and image capture
- Filters
- Lighting on location
- The zone system
- Studio lighting
- Creative techniques
- Assignments
About the Author
John Child lectures in photography at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia. He has worked for many years as a professional photographer, with clients including Ford, Singapore Airlines, American Express and British Airways.
Mark Galer is a Senior Lecturer in photography at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia. He is also co-writer and teacher on their new online photography courses. He has lectured in photography in the UK and Australia, and has worked commercially as a freelance photographer on corporate and editorial assignments.