Product Description

Provides the basic concepts necessary for designing and implementing lighting setups. Incorporates coverage of lighting, color control, texture, exposure technique, and elements that create image, look, and mood.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #290884 in Books
• Published on: 1992-10-14
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 352 pages

Review
"The book encourages one to see with fresh eyes--to be a creative problem solver, as opposed to relying on the formulaic."

"Viera’s book from the start has been one of my favorite texts on the subject. It gives the right amount of information and illustrates its points with terrific images from real films."

Customer Reviews

THE BEST BOOK FOR CINEMATOGRAPHERS
This book is a definitely must have for anyone interested in cinematography. This book goes thru all the different aspects and things that a cinematographer must know to create beautiful images. It does go into detail about video as well. But the thing is, and it does state this in the book, if you use film techniques for video, you'll come out with much better images than those that you see on those bland tv sitcoms and such. If you know the film techniques you can't do anything but improve the quality of your video. And the lighting exercises in the back are good ways to practice what the books teaches...all books on lighting should come with exercises. The only true way to learn lighting is to engage in it. This is a great book but the price is a bit outlandish.

Excellent but pricey
I'm very new to lighting for any film stock. My goal is to become more aware of how to light for film, mainly digitial stock. This books does provide extremely detailed information on lighting, such as footcandles, gamma, lighting terms and much more, but mainly in one chapter. It did provide detail about digital film lighting and standard photography lighting. I wish it gave more insight about "moods" but I learned a great deal. Downside, it's expensive for the material you get.

Not for Novices
This book dishes out a lot of information in the small space between it's paperback covers. I read it looking for film lighting basics, and had a tough time grasping some of the more technical language involving exposure, T-stops, etc, even though I have a decent background in photography. The book does a poor job of addressing and explaining these key concepts. I gleaned a decent amount of information from the pictures and diagrams, but they were poorly aligned with the text, requiring lots of flipping back and forth. All in all, I would reccommend this book only to people with a fair amount of knowledge of the physics behind photography and/or film.