This lighting manual shows that successful studio photography does not require a warehouse-sized space brimming with expensive lights; Hollywood-style facades; and a half-dozen assistants making the client lattes. Rather; this guide shows photographers how to create studio lighting effects that range from clean and classic to highly complex and use a garage; spare bedroom; or even a backyard as their “studio.rdquo; The simple setups show that one to three small; inexpensive electronic flash units—along with budget-friendly stands; communication systems; and some do-it-yourself light modifiers—can be combined to create brilliant studio-quality images without the studio. Numerous sample shoots and plans provide clear instructions for taking control of any environment to create spectacular images.
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Review
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful. Heavy as leadBy disciple of ImanuelThis has not been an easy book to read in any sense. Sometimes I wonder why I do it to myself: I mean; read books so dense and psychological and European that I can say Im "subjecting" myself to them. No; I wont be re-reading this one. I am glad Im now unable to enjoy the book really on its own terms; yet I can also say it was not a waste of time.Whats the angle here; you might ask? Well; its as much an extreme experiment in style as a novel. This book is almost 100% in the head of one character; and the only one who gets any dialog. He is a disgustingly rich and idle post-dandy who; having "done it all" and fed up with the coarseness of taste of his society (that being 19th century France; no less) retreats into the cloister of his own mansion to pursue the utmost refinement in all things: ideas; books; art; experiences; objects; etc. Selfish and vain to the nth degree; of course. This unholy cloistering and the attendant intense mental rumination happens to be his one true pleasure; yet increasingly a waning one. Yes; it features the full tour-de-force of cultural literacy that such a reading experience would imply; but the annotations in the back of the book lower the bar considerably for readers. Otherwise; you might be shocked by just how educated and discriminating the author can be; and moreover by how graphic.This edition is a fine; fine example of modern publishing; with annotations so useful and a translation from French so well done that its even ... decadent. If my interest as a reviewer was only in that; I would have given five stars. But I dont suffer a heavy dish of bleak cynicism gladly.This was a fairly chilling book for me to read sometimes because I saw a lot of my neurotic "old man" in the protagonist; yet the 20-years-later preface by the author J.K. Huysmans makes it clear that we are not bereft of hope in the New Man. What I mean is; Huysmans eloquently explains that this novel; while despairing; is the rock bottom from which all his later Christian literature builds up. I must say however; that Huysmans brand of literary gloom-and-doom as a foundation for the hope in Christ to follow is not nearly as compelling as that of Dostoevskys or Flannery OConners. I never felt the implicit presence of God behind the alienation and despair of this character that I felt in reading of that of Dostoevskys "Underground Man"; for one; even though this books protagonist obsesses over religion much much more. In my experience; the unbendingly SENSATE indulgence of this characters alienation vis a vis that one; really tarnishes it. If Huysmans as a devout Catholic retains deep-set flaws; its because he remains snobbish and severe and detached from the gregarious aspect of most any other believers experience. Thats not a great way; either.I think I will later on read the also-famous novels by Huysmans about the Durtral character (really a skew of himself). However; the first those (The Damned) is focused on the garish debauchery of French Satanism (you read that right) and at least as adult and graphic as anything here; and nary a ray of light. And that one came out well AFTER the authors conversion to the religion of Love. Yes; even as a communing Catholic this author was still quite borked in the head. And here I am reviewing his book. Funny that a person like me born in the Near East; and living in Kentucky; USA; ever bought; read; and reviewed a book like this. Stranger than fiction.
