Shaping Light is a practical, hands-on guide to lighting for video. Using a Dummies-style approach, the book explains lighting techniques through real-world examples, including recent updates on the groundbreaking use of LED lighting and wireless control options. This book focuses on firsthand application of technical knowledge, to appeal to cinematography students and video freelancers. Beginning with simple lighting setups and progressing to more complicated scenarios, the book holds the reader’s attention with illustrative anecdotes, and links theory to real-world applications.
The book covers
– Basic three-point lighting
– Lighting moving actors
– Set lighting and exposure
– Instrument selection including the many LEDs
– Bringing style to your lighting
– Color temperature and the Kelvin scale
– Exterior lighting: day and night
– Lighting categories and genres – what to expect
– Green-screen techniques
– Money and budgeting
– Electricity and electrical distribution
– What does a grip do?
– Case studies, with photos and diagrams
– Career paths
– Extensive glossary
Shaping Light for Video in the Age of LEDs: A Practical Guide to the Art, Craft, and Business of Lighting
• 5 years ago
Shaping Light…is printing correctly
Awesome reference book for DPs and Gaffers I’ve bought tons of gaffing, lighting, and cinematography books in the past. I’ve read the “Classic” books: “The 5 C’s”, “Film Lighting”, Blain Brown’s books but a lot of them talk about theories, film cameras and lighting with gigantic Mole-Richardson lights.This book perfectly describes how to light and shoot for modern, commercial video projects with smaller crews and LED lighting packages. Very hands-on, very practical, very straightforward. This is the book I wish I had when I…
Not great for Indie filmmakers I have read several books on this topic, and while the premise is really exciting, as indeed few cover LEDs, the execution isnât quite there. I got through this book in about an hour and most of it is geared towards equipment youâd use on a fairly robust commercial shoot. If youâre interested in this, Iâd check out âLighting for Cinematographyâ by Kevin Landau instead. Great reference setups in here, but again, if youâre trying to use the Robert Rodriquez school of filmmaking and keep things…
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