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In Lighting for Digital Photography: From Snapshots to Great Shots, photographer and bestselling author Syl Arena begins with a primer on light itself - how to see its direction, intensity, color, contrast, and hardness - and quickly moves on to discussions of shooting both indoors and outdoors in the many different conditions of natural or man-made light.

Creating beautiful lighting doesn't require a studio full of gear or an army of assistants. As the authors show, the savvy photographer can create outstanding images with natural light. Learn how to shoot in manual mood so you can control every aspect of your image capture, control the depth of field to get the look you've envisioned, design black and white and infrared images, get the "perfect" exposure with ambient light, adjust the camera's contrast,...