How to Set Up Photography Lighting for a Home Studio

This is such a waste of money and time. I applaud the author for taking such basic information, creating a self-published, print-on-demand book, and listing it on Amazon. However, the book itself is horrible. To begin with the author has used large font, double spacing, and unnecessarily large pictures of equipment to fill out what is probably only 30 pages of text into 88 pages. I purchased this book after reading another photography book that had a chapter on lighting. I thought this book would be a natural progression to understanding lighting for a home studio instead I'll go back to that one chapter and reread it, researching online what I don't understand. I'm sorry but this book is horrible. No insider tips. No resource guide. The only thing it does is give a handful of lighting techniques which can be found online. By the way, the author frequently uses that throwaway line as well. With some research you can find XYZ online and then most frequently does not even point the reader in any useful direction.

This is a self-published book, and it shows. I wish I had read all of the reviews first instead of just glimpsing at the star rating, as I figured that so many people couldn't be wrong, but boy was I wrong!

To call this a how-to book among other things, doesn't accurately reflect what this is, which is essentially a child's picture book. As other people has said, the author has tried to cheat the system by using a larger font size, double spaces everything, and uses an obscene amount of white space to the point where it honestly felt like it could have been a children's intro to photography book. In addition to that, the writing level is so simple that it is on the level on children's books, and that it's painful to read. There's much better information online and on YouTube that gives you more clear, concise, and useful information on setting up your own studio, than this book could.

Finally, to put icing on the top of how bad this book is, there's a final section in it called "Things to Remember", where the author directly asks you leave a review on Amazon, so here I am!

Good book! Thanks!

Waste of money. I could not have been more disappointed. Poor illustrations and text spread out so wide that in normal print it would have been a three page brochure. To top it off, not in the least helpful.

Its a good reference book but you can find a lot more on the web.

written for children

Liked it right to point. Wish it had more information. Quick read

This is a good book for anyone who wants to start at home

Does not go into great detail but is good for a beginner. wish there was more information and also photos to help explain more.

Libro muy práctico,tiene todo lo básico que un fotógrafo debe saber