Lighting
Light creates shadows, and shadows in return, enhances the
appearance of the subject. The interaction of the two is
fascinating. Light can make the subject feisty or dull while
shadows can make it mysterious or terrifying.
Shadows add facet and meaning to an image. Without shadows
the object may appear plain and boring. Lights and shadows
establish the correlation of one object to another and their
place in the full scene. The position and strength of the
lights and shadows also set the general mood of the subject.
"Light makes photography. Embrace light. Admire it. Love it.
But above all, know light. Know it for all you are worth,
and you will know the key to photography".
-- George Eastman, one of the founders of Kodak
Some Lighting Facts You should know
http://www.popphoto.com/gallery/top-10-photography-lighting-facts-you-should-know
Digital camera lighting techniques
http://www.digicamhelp.com/taking-photos/lighting-techniques/introduction/
http://www.digicamhelp.com/learn/working-with-light/varying-light/
http://www.digicamhelp.com/learn/toptips/photographing-backlit-subjects/
How to Set White Balance
http://www.digicamhelp.com/taking-photos/advanced-techniques/custom/
http://www.kenrockwell.com/tech/whitebalance.htm
Time Lapse Photography -- Over 14 years (note the lighting)
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2014/04/13/302695392/a-girl-ages-from-0-to-14-years-old-in-4-minutes
A Dutch filmmaker has updated one of the more compelling uses
of time-lapse photography techniques online. Frans Hofmeester
has filmed his daughter, Lotte, every week since her birth in
1999 until a braces-wearing teenager.
Advanced Lighting Tutorial
http://www.warpedspace.org/lightingT/part1.htm
From the book "Lighting & Rendering"
http://www.3drender.com/light/3point.html
Light - a detailed tutorial (in four parts)
http://www.itchy-animation.co.uk/tutorials/light01.htm
Sarah Greenough
ON THE ART OF FIXING A SHADOW
Bullfinch Press.; First Edition edition (1989)
ISBN-10: 0821217577
ISBN-13: 978-0821217573
Jay Ruby
Secure the Shadow: Death and Photography in America
MIT Press (July 23, 1999)
ISBN-10: 0262681099
ISBN-13: 978-0262681094
Secure the Shadow uses a combination of cultural anthropology
and visual analysis to explore the photographic
representations of death in the United States from 1840 to the
present. It looks at the ways in which people have taken and
used photographs of deceased loved ones and their funerals to
mitigate the finality of death.
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