by Andy Lim
This series of guides aims to help photographers master a key aspect of wedding and portrait photography, which is lighting using a variety of methods: speedlights, available light as well as natural light. Available light does not always mean natural light, because available light can come from any light source, including the overhead spot light used in a wedding ballroom.
SimpleSLR Portrait Lighting is the anchor guide that will help you create portraits at the speed of light. I will show you simple lighting techniques that create powerful results, which can be put together very quickly using the most basic equipment. This is the first guide you should purchase as it contains foundation skills for using speedlights effectively.
In the 3-volume companion guides Portrait Recipes (available individually or as a bundle), various different scenarios are illustrated, and 24 different detailed lighting setups are revealed. You will see why I chose the settings I used, and also be able to see how different settings would have resulted in a different feel in the portrait. Detailed diagrams showing placement of lights (be it speedlights or available light) accompany each scenario, with EXIF settings shown, and my thought process described.
Being the starter guide, SimpleSLR Portrait Lighting comes automatically bundled with Portrait Recipes VOLUME 1 to start you off quickly. Use these guides as a springboard to super-charge your lighting skills. Pages packed with useful information and how-to diagrams. Illustrated with actual portraits by Andy Lim. Contrary to popular belief that more pages are better, SimpleSLR e-books get the point across with fewer pages. On-the-job skills of a wedding and portrait photographer, available to you at prices that are a steal! Landscape format PDF e-books designed to read well on your screen. Works on any computer or Ipad. Print them out if you like!
SimpleSLR Portrait Lighting is a downloadable PDF file, which can be viewed on a number of devices – laptop and desktop computers, iPhone or Android devices, iPads, and other tablets.
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This eBook can be found here: SimpleSLR Portrait Lighting
