Christopher Grey's Lighting Techniques for Beauty and Glamour Photography by Grey, Christopher -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover About the Author Copyright Contents Kudos Introduction 1. The Gear and The look

Softboxes Umbrellas Bare-Tubed Strobe Reflectors Accessory Arms

2. Proper Main Light Meter Placement 3. Working with One Light and Fill

Butterfly Light with the Subject Close to the Background Single Umbrella Broad Source from Accessory Flash The Bookend Bounce Mirrors as Main Light

4. Bare-Tubed Strobe 5. Silhouettes and Backlight

A Basic Photoshop Trick Softbox as Source Plexiglas as Source Adding Detail Lastolite’s Hilite Translucent Diffuser

6. Accessory Flash Diffusion 7. The Double Main Light 8. Triple and Quadruple Main Lights

Triple Main Lights Quad Main Lights

9. The Search for Super-Soft Light

Turn Your Studio Into a Softbox Use Two Backgrounds The Studio as Softbox Using Multiple Softboxes One Softbox, One Sheet Soft Light that Falls Off

10. High Key

A Really Cool Variation on the Basic Setup …

11. Low Key and the Isolation of Your Subject 12. Overexposure as a Creative Tool 13. Underlighting

Underlight as Accent Underlight for Power Underlight as the Main Light Double Main Light and Underlight

14. Greenscreen 15. Using Reflectors in the Studio 16. A Few Tricks with Colored Gels

Photoshop Tip

17. Beauty and the Barrier

Cloth for Mood Cloth as a Barrier Cloth as Design Semi-Opaque Cloth Cloth as Mystery A Grayscale Photoshop Trick Plexiglass as a Barrier Paper as a Barrier Acrylic as a Barrier

18. Dimensional, Symmetrical Light 19. A Creative Use for Gobos

The Gobo as Cookie

20. Shooting Up, Down, and Across

Shooting Up Shooting Down Shooting Across

21. Adding Drama and Focus 22. Pinup Images 23. Fitness Images 24. Goth Images 25. Boudoir Photography 26. The Short Eternity of Maternity One Little Page of Shameless Self-Promotion Afterword Index