Contents01 How to Learn LightingWhat Are "The Principles"?Why Are The Principles Important?How Were The Example Subjects Chosen For This Book?Do I Need To Do These Exercises?What Kind Of Camera Do I Need?What Lighting Equipment Do I Need?What Else Do I Need To Know To Use This Book? What Is The "Magic" Part of This Book?

02: Light - The Raw Material of PhotographyWhat Is LightHow Photographers Describe LightBrightnessColorContrast

Light Versus LightingHow The Subject Affects The LightingTransmissionDirect and Diffuse TransmissionAbsorptionReflection

03 The Management of Reflection and the Family of AnglesTypes Of ReflectionDiffuse ReflectionThe Inverse Square Law

Direct ReflectionBreaking the Inverse Square Law?

The Family of AnglesGlare ReflectionIs It Glare or Ordinary Direct Reflection?Turning Ordinary Direct Reflection into Glare

Applying The Theory

04 Surface AppearancesThe Photographer As EditorCapitalizing on Direct ReflectionAngle of LightThe Success and Failure of the Rule of ThumbThe Distance of LightDoing the ImpossibleUsing Diffuse Reflection and Shadow to Reveal Texture

Competing SurfacesTry a Lens Polarizing FilterUse a Still Larger LightUse More than One LightUse a Gobo

Complex Surfaces

05 Revealing Shape and ContourDepth CluesPerspective DistortionDistortion as a Clue of DepthDo Lenses Affect Distortion?

Tonal VariationThe Size of the LightLarge Lights versus Small LightsDistance from Subject

Direction of the LightLight on SideLight Above the SubjectFill LightAdd Depth to the Background

How much Tonal Variation is Ideal?Photographing Buildings: Deacreasing Tonal VariationPhotographing Cylinders: Increasing Tonal Variation

The Glossy BoxUse a Dark BackgroundEliminate Direct Reflection from the Box TopEliminate Direct Reflection from the Box SidesFinish with Other Resouces

Use Direct Reflection?

06 Metal07 The case of the Disapprearing Glass08 An Arsenal of Light The Single-Light SetupThe Basic SetupLight SizeSkin TextureWhere to Put the Main LightLeft Side? Right Side?Broad Lighting or Short LightingEyeglasses

Additional LightsFill LightsBackground LightsHair LightsKickersRim Lights

Mood and KeyLow-Key LightingHigh-Key LightingStaying in Key

Dark SkinAvailable-Light PortraitureA Window as a Main LightThe Sun as Hair LightKeeping the Light Appropriate

Setting Rules?

09 The Extreme10 Traveling Light Appendix 1 - Let There Be Light Appendix 2 - The Complete ToolboxIndex