Focal Press 2008, softcover, 7 1/2 x 9 3/4", 201 pages, color illustrations

Key Features
- A variety of activities and assignments throughout the book teach lessons in a creative context that can be applied immediately to develop the professional in you
- Two all new chapters cover the latest post-production and composite imagery techniques and provide the necessary tools needed to refine and improve your photos

- Features online support, including video tutorials and downloadable figure files. It's like having the authors in the room to show you how it's done!

Photographic Lighting: Essential Skills offers practical coverage of everything you need to know to understand the characteristics of light and the foundations of photographic lighting, including:
- film
- filters
- exposure
- compensation
- zone system
- array of creative techniques

Beginners and committed amateurs will find sound technical knowledge with inspiring projects. Developing professionals in need of a refresher or a reference need look no further.

The authors use terminology that is easy to understand and explain techniques in a clearly written, no nonsense manner.

Photographic Lighting: Essential Skills ensures all the fundamentals of lighting are learned and applied to help improve the use of light in photography and encourage visual expression.