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Lighting for Cinematography: A Practical Guide to the Art and Craft of Lighting for the Moving Image de David Landau

Lighting for Cinematography: A Practical Guide to the Art and Craft of Lighting for the Moving Image: The CineTech Guides to the Film Crafts

Autor David Landau
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 18 mar 2027

Tehnica iluminatului în cinematografie transformă o simplă expunere digitală într-o narațiune vizuală cu profunzime și atmosferă. În volumul Lighting for Cinematography, David Landau demonstrează că, indiferent de performanța camerei utilizate, lumina este cea care „vinde” imaginea și conferă profesionalism unei producții. Subliniem abordarea extrem de practică a acestui manual, care nu se limitează la teorie, ci ghidează cititorul prin 200 de ilustrații și diagrame detaliate, menite să descifreze complexitatea umbrelor și a contrastului. Structura cărții este concepută ingenios pentru a mima un semestru academic de 14 săptămâni. Credem că această progresie logică — de la înțelegerea unităților de iluminat și a electricității, până la tehnici avansate precum iluminarea în trei planuri sau utilizarea culorii pentru a dicta starea emoțională — este esențială pentru oricine dorește să stăpânească acest meșteșug. Autorul explorează scenarii variate, incluzând lucrul cu lumina naturală, gestionarea ferestrelor și provocările filmărilor de noapte, oferind în fiecare capitol exerciții aplicate. Colecționarii și profesioniștii care au apreciat Motion Picture and Video Lighting de Blain Brown vor găsi aici aceeași calitate de reproducere și rigoare tehnică, însă cu un accent sporit pe fluxul de lucru din platou. Această lucrare completează perfect cealaltă operă tehnică a autorului, Multi-Camera Cinematography and Production, extinzând expertiza sa de la producția multi-cameră la estetica rafinată a iluminatului de film. Recomandăm acest volum ca pe o resursă fundamentală care face trecerea de la iluminatul care doar „arată” subiectul, la cel care spune o poveste.

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ISBN-13: 9798216383833
Pagini: 448
Ilustrații: 269 colour illus
Dimensiuni: 25 x 25 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Ediția:2nd edition
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Seria The CineTech Guides to the Film Crafts

Locul publicării:New York, United States

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această carte oricărui videograf sau student la film care dorește să scape de aspectul „amator” al producțiilor sale. Cititorul câștigă o înțelegere profundă a modului în care lumina poate manipula emoția și spațiul, beneficiind de expertiza unui gaffer premiat. Este un ghid esențial pentru a învăța cum să creezi imagini cinematografice folosind echipamente reale, în situații de filmare concrete.

Despre autor

David Landau este un expert consacrat în industria iluminatului de film și televiziune, având o carieră de peste trei decenii în care a lucrat la lungmetraje, reclame și seriale precum „Project Runway”. De cinci ori laureat al premiului Telly, Landau îmbină activitatea practică din platou cu cea academică, predând cinematografia la Fairleigh Dickinson University, unde a pus bazele programului de specialitate. Deși portofoliul său include și lucrări de analiză politică sau istoria artei, expertiza sa tehnică în domeniul video rămâne un punct de referință pentru noua generație de cineaști.

Descriere

An updated version of the how-to book on the art, craft, and practice of lighting for film and video for students and filmmakers that want to improve their lighting.

We can't shoot good pictures without good lighting, no matter how good the newest cameras are. Shooting under available light gives exposure, but lacks depth, contrast, contour, atmosphere, and often separation. The story could be the greatest in the world, but if the lighting is poor, viewers will assume it's amateurish and not take it seriously. Good lighting makes things look real, while real lighting often makes things look fake.

This book helps the reader create lighting that supports the emotional moment of the scene, contributes to the atmosphere of the story and can augment an artistic style. Well-crafted lighting helps establish the illusion of reality that is necessary for the viewer to forget they are watching a screen and get lost in the story. So, no matter how good a script, how good a director, how good the actors - the lighting needs to be as good, if not better.

This book is a practical hands-on lighting text for anyone who wants to learn to improve their lighting for video or film, based on the college lighting class that the author has taught for ten years, as well as his extensive professional work in the industry as a DP, Lighting Director, and union gaffer.

Cuprins

Acknowledgements

Introduction: No Matter How Good a Camera Is, Good Lighting is What Sells the Picture
1. The Magic of Light: What Lighting Does and What We Can Do With It
2. Who and What Makes Light?: The Lighting Crew, Lighting Units, Basic Electricity
3. Lighting the Subject: Motivation and Three-Point Lighting
4. Light the Shot, Not Just the Subject: More than Three Lights, Three Plains of Lighting
5. Common Practical Lighting Set-Ups: Cross Key, Chicken Coop, China Ball, Bathrooms
6. Lighting for Movement: Subject and Camera, Ambient Soft Lighting
7. Dealing with Daylight 1: Shooting Exteriors
8. Dealing with Daylight 2: Working with Windows
9. Night Light: Lighting Night Exteriors & Interiors
10. Working with Color: Using Color for Mood, Gels
11. Light the Scene, Not Just the Shot: High Key/Low Key, Contrast Ratios, Chiaroscuro, Rembrandt, Butterfly, Selecting Exposure
12. Special Lighting Considerations & Effects: Fire, Water, Rain, Fog, Lightening, Poor Man's Process Shot, Green Screen, etc.
13. Lighting Non-fiction: Interview, Corporate, News Magazine, Documentary, Reality, Product Shots
14. Lighting for More than One Camera
15. Inspiration and Lighting Looks

Appendix 1: Advice from the Field: Interviews with Cinematographers and Gaffers
Appendix 2: Resources: Apps, Magazines, Books, Websites, Lighting Equipment Manufacturers
Appendix 3: Glossary
Index

Recenzii

It's dense, detailed, thoughtful, simply written and highly educational. Lighting for Cinematography: A Practical Guide to the Art and Craft of Lighting for the Moving Image might have been created as a practicum for a 14-week course in cinematography, but David Landau's study of the art and craft of lighting has something for everyone, from the neophyte to the veteran.
Lighting for Cinematography is one of the most comprehensive and engaging texts on the subject this reviewer has read . The author fills the volume with outstanding visuals, including screen captures and lighting plans from actual films and television programs, in so doing bringing the lessons to life. Most notably, Landau includes commentary by current practitioners, thus providing an invaluable glimpse into the minds of creative professionals. This is a compelling read for those wishing to improve their craft as well as for those still learning the ropes. Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates, including students in technical programs, through faculty and professionals.
Whilst there are some great books with interviews of big time cinematographers out there, there are few books immediately applicable to what emerging cinematographers face on limited budget shoots ... This how-to book addresses how filmmakers on a limited budget and time schedule can achieve professional looking images similar to what they see on the big screen.
This unique approach has been needed for a long time and there is simply no other lighting book like this in print.
A master class in cinematography! David Landau's conversational tone mixed with 35 years of technical experience and aesthetic prowess results in a very accessible text that should be cherished by students and professionals alike. Whether he is describing the process of lighting through a window with a 1200 HMI Par with a double scrim, 250 diffusion and 1/2 CTO or describing his method of achieving a firelight effect with several 250W Inkies with a mixture of amber and orange gels and run through a flicker box, Landau's multiple accounts from his work in the field give this book a much appreciated practicality and voice of authority that is invaluable for the emerging cinematographer.
David Landau has produced an excellent text in Lighting for Cinematography which manages to cover the practicalities of production, the technical aspects of lighting and vitally the artistic importance of this work. Lighting for Cinematography is constructed to appeal and be of value to the practitioner at all levels; it is equally full of detail for careful consideration and quick hints and images for review before filming. Landau's book is helpfully crammed with instructional diagrams and the chosen images act as exemplars of technique. Lighting for Cinematography contains a series of production skills and helpful hints and exercises; these aspects are exceptionally helpful to the student of film wishing to improve their understanding and technique. I would highly recommend Lighting for Cinematography to those to wish to learn more about this field and to all those interested in the technique and process of film making.
Simply written and highly educational, very few books on the market [have such a] wide perspective on the subject.