Capturing Light: The Heart of Photography

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Description

In almost all photography it’s the quality of light that makes or breaks the shot. For professional photographers, chasing the light, looking forward to it, every now and then helping it, and in spite of everything capturing this is a constant preoccupation ― and for some an obsession.

Drawing on four decades of doing just this, Michael Freeman takes a simple but practical approach to reacting to, and capturing photography’s most essential commodity.

There are just three sections titled Waiting, Chasing, and Helping: Waiting explains the forms of lighting that photographers can anticipate and plan for, at the same time as Chasing explores the transient, serendipitous light that photographers have to work quickly to exploit. Helping, the final and most technical section, makes a speciality of the skills and techniques for enhancing, reducing, or in a different way controlling light, covering the whole lot from in-the-field shooting choices to technical transformations to post-production.



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