Ebook: Direction & quality of light: your key to better portrait photography anywhere

""Cover ""; ""About the Author ""; ""Copyright ""; ""Table of Contents ""; ""Foreword ""; ""Introduction ""; ""About This Book ""; ""Equipment ""; ""Structure ""; ""Terminology ""; ""About the Title ""; ""1. Direction and Quality of Light: The Basics ""; ""Good Light? Bad Light? ""; ""Quality of Light ""; ""The Larger the Light Source, The Softer the Light ""; ""The Direction of Light ""; ""Short Lighting and Broad Lighting ""; ""Positioning a Soft Light Source ""; ""Positioning a Hard Light Source ""; ""2. Working with Available Light ""; ""Match the Pose to the Lighting "";Providing readers with a study of learning how to turn poorly lit images into finely crafted, masterfully lit photographs, this guidebook instills photographers with the self-confidence to think on their feet and photograph any portrait subject anywhere. Acclaimed photographer Neil van Niekirk presents seven distinctly different lighting scenarios-available light, exposure metering, a touch of flash, bounced on-camera flash, off-camera flash, video light, and hard sunlight-to show readers how to manipulate the direction and quality of light, the.