Book review: Minimalist Lighting
29.1.2009  |   Add comment   |   No comments  |  Permalink
Yesterday I received a book I ordered, Minimalist Lighting: Professional Techniques for Location Photography. I found out about this book from Strobist's blog.

The book talks about making portraits with minimal gear and on location. In his book, Kirk Tuck gives first-hand examples on how to get great looking portraits indoors and outdoors with one, two and three strobes.

In addition the book talks about radio triggers, usage of color correction gels and about reflectors.

In my opinion Kirk has done a great job to bring out what I have been looking for in many other literature on photography, which is explaining for-the-dummies style on how to do everything involved in portrait photography with minimal gear. He even supplies the sample pictures with setup diagrams so that you can analyze the pictures better.

The book has soft cover and contains 124 pages of nothing but spot-on text about photography the strobist way. After reading this book, one might wonder about why they use big strobes when the same can be done with hot shoe strobes.

Link to Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/Minimalist-Lighting-Professional-Techniques-Photography/dp/1584282304

Strobist's blog entry about the book:
http://strobist.blogspot.com/2008/04/new-at-amazon-minimalist-lighting-by.html