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

Feature films and TV shows, commercials and industrial videos, reality TV and documentaries, even event and wedding videos tell stories. Good lighting can make them look real, while real lighting often makes them look fake.

Lighting for Cinematography, the first volume in the new CineTech Guides to the Film Crafts series, is the indispensable guide for film and video lighting. Written by veteran gaffer and cinematographer David Landau, the book helps the reader create lighting that supports the emotional moment of the scene, contributes to the atmosphere of the story and augments an artistic style.

Structured to mimic a 14-week semester, the chapters cover such things as lighting for movement, working with windows, night lighting, lighting the three planes of action, and non-fiction lighting.

Every chapter includes stills, lighting diagrams and key advice from professionals in the field, as well as lighting exercises to help the reader put into practice what was covered.