Kerr N. Techniques of Photographic Lighting

Amphoto, 1979. — 212 p.Lighting is the most difficult technical problem in photography. It can also be the most challenging and the most exciting. Whether the photographer wishes to use his craft as a form of documentation, as a personal language, as entertainment, or as art. the control of light is an essential technique to be learned.This book is a new approach to the subject of photographic lighting. It deals with the fundamentals of why the effects of light occur, and not
exclusively with lighting equipment or subject matter. The fundamentals, when understood, provide the photographer with the maximum potential for controlling light, regardless of lighting equipment or subject matter.