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An Introduction to Photographic Lighting A {
Fil Hunter Steven Biver Paul Fuqua
Light—Science & Magic
Fourth Edition
An Introduction to Photographic Lighting
Fourth Edition Fil Hunter Steven Biver Paul Fuqua
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Hunter, Fil.
Light—science & magic / Fil Hunter, Steven Biver, and Paul Fuqua. —4th ed. p. cm.
ISBN 978-0-240-81225-0
1. Photography—Lighting. I. Fuqua, Paul. II. Biver, Steven. III. Title.
TR590.H84 2011 778.7'2—dc23
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It gives us, your authors, great pleasure to welcome you to this new edition. We would also like to thank you for all the support you have shown for Light—Science & Magic over the past near quarter of a century. We sincerely appreciate it.
Since our previous edition, the photographer's world—and everybody else's—has changed radically. Long established markets, relationships, and business models have shrunk, if not completely collapsed. Once valued skill sets have been rendered useless, and the fees clients are willing to pay have been reduced in every market sector. All in all, it’s fair to say that not all things are rosy in today's stressed-out image-making world.
There is, however, also a good—a very good—side to things. While it is true that on the one hand we photographers may be challenged as perhaps never before, it is also true that over the past several years manufacturers have swamped us with a seemingly endless flood of truly amazing gear. New generations of cameras, lighting gear, high-resolution printers, and sophisticated software have revolutionized how we work and how we think.
Today, it is commonplace for us to do that of which we could not even dream those few years ago when the previous edition of this book rolled off the presses. And so it goes. In some ways we are worse off than we once were. In others, we are better off.
And then there is light—the collective result of all those busy little photons that buzz around the universe as they have since its creation. Light is everything for us. Light is, always has been, and always will be the very foundation of that amazing amalgamation of art and science we call photography. And now, thanks to your continued support, there is this, the newest edition of Light—Science & Magic. Our greatest hope for it is that it will, like earlier editions, help students to understand how light behaves, and always will. Armed with these timeless principles, one is ready to do battle—and thoroughly enjoy it—in this new and crazy world of picture making.
