Minimalist Lighting: Professional Techniques for Location Photography
Minimalist Lighting: Professional Techniques for Location Photography
Packed with incredible images and step-by-step techniques, this book is a must have for commercial, wedding, and portrait photographers working on location who want to maximize their time behind the camera and minimize their time spent hauling cumbersome lighting equipment. The tips show how to select easily portable and versatile equipment for location shoots, cutting down on the packing and porting of expensive equipment. With techniques and information on the latest technology—including battery-powered flashes and accessories—this reference shows photographers how to work with smaller and lighter-weight lighting equipment without sacrificing quality. Whether shooting portraits, landscapes, or interiors, whether indoors or out, photographers will embrace the portable approach offered in this valuable resource.
Customer Review: Minimalist Lighting
Finally a book that not tells you but shows you with diagrams to match the photos. Real unbias info on portable strobes and gear. Kirk really embraces the portable approach with real people on real locations.Shot on location, not in a pro studio. If you want to bring the photograher to the subject this is how you do it.
Info on what you need and don’t need and a section on color correction filters that is worth the price of the book alone. I had a friend who is just starting with stobes and he saw it on the coffe table and ask to borrow it, after reading it he said “now that make sense” Thanks Kirk you saved me hours of helping him. Looking forward to the next one.
Jim Mucklin
Customer Review: One of the best lighting books I’ve found
I thought Minimalist Lighting was a great read. The information is bountiful and easy to understand. I don’t get some of the reviews that talk about Tuck’s approach not being Minimalist. He clearly shows how to do more with much less. I have friends who use traditional studio black boxes and heads and it is obvious that his approach gives you the control you want at a much lower cost and weight.
I would recommend this book to anyone who is trying to go beyond using a light stuck right on top of their camera. It’s amazing what can be done with one or two small lights if you also incorporate the existing light. This is something that Tuck does very well.
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