Nothing creates a mood quite like light. It can produce a mysterious feel, a playful quality, or even a natural, sun-kissed look that renders the model simply radiant! In this book, you'll learn how to control light to produce just the effect you want and create images with style. Book jacket.

Models need to get hired, designers need to sell their clothing, magazine editors need to attract readers—and to do this, they all need one thing: attention-grabbing images. Satisfying these savvy and demanding fashion-photography clients requires a photographer with both a strong command of lighting and a dash of ingenuity. In this book, veteran fashion shooter Billy Pegram (whose past clients include Fila, Swatch, Pussycat Dolls, and Tony Hawk) shows you how to attain that goal with cutting-edge techniques that showcase flawless skin, accentuate stunning figures, and highlight gorgeous products. Through careful control of the light, whether in the studio or on location, you’ll learn how to manage every nuance of the model’s appearance, drawing attention to his or her standout qualities and minimizing any problem areas. Short, to-the-point lessons with ample lighting diagrams and image sequences make learning easy. Armed with these techniques, you’ll be ready to approach fashion shoots (or fashion-inspired portrait sessions) with confidence—and deliver memorable images to your clients.

Softboxes—specialized photographic lighting devices that produce a flattering and soft, low-contrast look—are the main focus of this resource for photographers. Professional and amateur photographers alike will be able to apply the thorough explanations on the simple, yet highly effective, light- and shadow-altering methodologies found in this guidebook to any subject matter in portrait, fashion, and editorial images. Additional chapters cover the use of softboxes in partnership with other light sources, including sunlight and various types of studio lighting treatments.

In this instructional guidebook, photographers learn how to analyze light and take high-quality glamour photographs, with diagrams explaining how shots are set up, enabling photographers to choose the right equipment, set up their shots, and get results. Original.

In recent years, fashion and glamour photography has shifted away from the false and formal setting of the studio towards greater use of real-life locations and outdoor lighting. This work explores the skills required to get the very best results from daylight - the most versatile and challenging resource at the photographer's disposal. Using images from around the world, it looks at the whole process of conducting a fashion shoot, from the client's brief to the choice of location, the time of day and techniques employed. It gives tips and explanations from the photographers and clear diagrams of the set-up. It also shows a wealth of different ways in which natural light can be controlled, maipulated and artificially enhanced to create a mood, flatter the subject and catch the eye.

In beauty and glamour photography, nothing creates a mood quite like light and with the many sub-categories of portraiture - Maxim Style, Boudoir, Goth and Fetish, it is important to understand which lighting techniques differentiate one sub-genre from another. In this comprehensive manual, Grey walks readers through the various components of these image types, describing the artistic and technical nuances of each category. Through detailed lighting diagrams, 170 evocative images and easy-to-follow instructions, Grey will inspire readers to broaden their repertoire.

The fundamentals of exposure and the essentials of lighting are explored in this photography reference that uses progressive images from portrait sessions as its basis of explanation. Starting with how light is perceived differently by the camera than the human eye, this resource clarifies the more complicated laws that govern light, breaking the rules down with clear, effective examples. Various light sources are investigated—from simple sunlight to advanced professional and studio systems—as well as the types of lighting units used at different times during the sessions. By adding or modifying one light at a time, a sequence of images shows how the desired effect was achieved, offering photographers step-by-step troubleshooting tips. Concise text paired with photo examples offer any portrait photographer the techniques needed to create perfectly lit images.