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| Introduction | |
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| Important Lighting Safety Information--Please Read Carefully | |
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| Lighting Overviews | |
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| A First Photo Setup | |
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| If You Are Beginning Lighting with a Digital Camera | |
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| The Three Basic Types of Photo Lights | |
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| A One-Light Lighting Kit | |
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| Setting Up Your First Light or Lights | |
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| Upgrading from Rock-Bottom-Budget Lights | |
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| Lighting Aesthetics | |
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| Achieving the Right Mood | |
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| Lighting and Contrast | |
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| Lighting and Color Balance | |
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| All about Hotlights | |
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| An Introduction to Photoflood and Quartz Lights | |
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| How Photoflood Lights Work | |
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| How Quartz Hotlights Work | |
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| Working with Two Hotlights | |
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| Exposure and Metering | |
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| Exposure Fundamentals | |
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| Reflected-Light Meters | |
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| Exposure Latitude | |
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| How I Expose Under Hotlights | |
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| Incident-Light Meters | |
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| Battery-Powered Flash | |
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| Overview | |
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| Flash Accessories | |
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| Detachable TTL Dedicated Flashes | |
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| Automatic Flashes | |
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| Manual Flashes | |
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| Using Flash as Studio Lighting | |
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| Lighting with Strobes | |
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| An Introduction to Strobes | |
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| My Own Strobe Preferences | |
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| Light Modifiers and Other Strobe Accessories | |
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| Nine Self-Assignments | |
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| Introduction to the Self-Assignments | |
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| A One-Light Portrait | |
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| A Still Life of Nonreflective Objects | |
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| A One-Light Close-Up | |
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| A Figure or Movement Study | |
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| People in a Location Setting Lit by Two or More Lights | |
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| Copying Art | |
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| Reflective Objects and Glass | |
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| An Informal Party or Formal Event | |
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| A Picture Story | |
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| Approaches to Popular Subjects | |
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| The Approaches | |
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| Approaches to Lighting Action Pictures | |
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| Approaches to Lighting Actors | |
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| Approaches to Lighting Architecture and Interiors | |
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| Approaches to Lighting Babies and Children | |
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| Approaches to Lighting Business Executives | |
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| Approaches to Lighting Set-Up Situations for Illustration | |
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| Approaches to Lighting Landscapes and Nature | |
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| Wrap-Up | |
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| Showing Your Work | |
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| Marketing Photographs | |
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| Appendices | |
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| Troubleshooting--Some Lighting Problems and Some Solutions | |
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| Manufacturers and Lighting Resources | |
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| Lighting Setups for the Full-Page Photos | |
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| Index | |