20 reviews for Studio Anywhere 2: Hard Light: A Photographer&#...
Rated 4 out of 5
Mr DJ –
As I anticipated, this photo book was a different view of lighting for me and a great addition to my other photo books. It’s has some great procedures in it, it’s good stuff.
Rated 4 out of 5
Ulysses –
I already own studio anywhere 1, in general, I think this book is good, but I feel that the previous book is better
Rated 5 out of 5
Rajiv Chopra –
This is definitely a very good book. I have come across his first book, and I think I have a sample somewhere! However, I will read that as well.In this follow up to his first book, Nick Fancher talks about how to use hard light effectively. He uses speedlights, and I like that he does this because they are light and portable. I own a few but have never used them effectively.Nick does give lots of ideas, and he does describe many ways and situations where they can be used effectively, and without huge gear.He is creative, and it shows.I like this book, and definitely, think it is worth buying and reading.
Rated 5 out of 5
Gloria Z. Nagler –
This book is uniquely useful to photographers because it talks about how to use hard light, the one thing other books on photography tell us to avoid at all cost. Even more than that though, Fancher gives us outside of the box ideas and explains everything in an understandable and easy to follow manner. I don’t think you’ll find a better book on using hard light in your photography.Right off the bat we love the author because he suggests we not buy fancy new gear until we have reached the limitations with the equipment we have. He points out that he also learned more about how to use the equipment than had he if he bought the pro stuff right away. Gave him a broader view of what he could do with light. In the beginning of the book he makes a fun suggestion: shut your window blinds to create a natural light gobo — I love when photographers give us tips and tricks that don’t require a lot of technical knowledge or new equipment :-)I love iPhone tips and this author does not stint. He tells us, for example, that you can accomplish exposure lock on the phone’s camera which I did not know. He also tells us how, over a few pages with illustrations so that we really understand how to get much better pics out of our phones, especially in hard light. Flancher gives us more than other authors might give us regarding how to use light; for example, gives the example of a situation where the model would be in a very tight corner — so how do you set up your off-camera lights to illuminate the scene? He shows us and I have not seen that situation addressed anywhere else-though it must happen fairly often when shooting indoors. Lens flare seems to be a trendy thing in photography these days according to the magazines I peruse, and our author does not disappoint. He has a whole section on intentional lens flare.I love the part where he talks about doing outdoor shoots on a rainy day, yet making the picture look as if it’s a sunny day! The cloning of raindrops and flash does the trick. That’s something else I have not seen elsewhere. This author seems to have done a good job of ferreting out issues not usually talked about. I especially enjoyed his section on inspiration where he talks about finding out that there are so many photographers better than you are 🙂 I find that I get discouraged, too, seeing photos so much beyond what I’m doing but he said he has learned not to pay attention to the competition! Instead, he uses the best pictures he sees and reverse engineers them to find out how they were made. That’s a very good piece of advice and would reduce my envy level a bit :-)Toward the end of the book Fancher has a chapter called “painting with shadow“. Although shadows are mentioned in most photography books discussing light, I don’t believe I’ve seen a section entirely devoted to working with shadows. Grateful to the author for his thoughtfulness.In one of the last chapters the author does a brief a memoir of what it was like to establish himself as a commercial photographer. One never sees this much in photography books unless it’s a book specifically written on the business aspect of photography and I think it was a nice change of pace to come across it in a book on lighting. At the conclusion, the author shows us a few scene set ups in detail when he shot portraits on site. I found it helpful because it felt as though you were right along with him setting it up. Great book to have on your shelf when you face hard light!
Rated 5 out of 5
Glass Avenue –
I’ve been a professional photographer for several years and this book made me want to get out if my routine and rediscover the fun and art that is portrait lighting.
Rated 5 out of 5
Brad Wood –
Good lighting tips. Informative with many examples.
Rated 5 out of 5
G Jerry Martin –
According to Nick Fancher, the author, his book can be described by what it isn’t: a book strictly about hard light scenarios, a how-to lighting manual or a book of the equipment you need to buy. But it IS about how to manipulate, soften and shape light using one or two flash guns with few or no modifiers. Most photo instructional books primarily tell and show the reader how to eliminate hard shadows. It is refreshing to have a book that focuses on what you can do with more dramatic (hard shadow) photography.The photo illustrations not only show the final photo but the photo set up that led to the final photo. He also goes into post processing in Lightroom and Photoshop with screen shots of the settings.
Rated 5 out of 5
Vinicius Meza –
As your first book, Nick Fancher presents valuable solutions to use anywhere. He shows the cavits, the problems and mainly how to conquer hard light from speedlights! The tips from editing with lightroom are very good and add more value to the book!
Rated 5 out of 5
Jinette –
love his work. love his books. highly recommend.
Rated 5 out of 5
SL –
Practical, affordable, plain terms, simple processes – Fancher tells it like it should be told with GREAT examples.
Rated 5 out of 5
@VKTheMortgageNurse –
Great book. I giggled a few times at the authors candid descriptions. Easy to follow and chalked full of useful information. In fact I’ll buy his first book.
Rated 4 out of 5
Jeff Ornstein –
There have been many ‘how to’ photographic books written and I would include this as one of the better ones. The author has a very unique and simple way of describing technical concepts and provides many examples and photographs that enhance the written words.This book will help both beginners and advanced photographers in improving their own techniques using available light. Some of the material will need to be read twice but it will be a very worthy task. Mr. Fancher show how shadows can be very helpful to your photography.
Rated 5 out of 5
Amazon Customer –
I’ve read a few books on photography techniques and this ranks among one of the better ones. Fancher has along with his unique style a very sound approach to photography. It’s not a shopping list for expensive gear and neither is it a recipe book which in my opinion is a good thing. What it is however is an introduction to solving problems, often with limited resources. And how to make spectacular photos with the humblest of gear bags. And lets face it the majority of photographers are not Annie Liebovitz with access to a whole crew of assistents and expensive lighting equipment. This book is for the photographer who either wants to work alone or is forced to.While there are books that go deeper into the physics behind lighting like for example “Light, Science & Magic” this book is more focused to the problems one might encounter while actually making pictures.
Rated 5 out of 5
Amz Shopper –
This book is an absolute must-have for any photographer interested in portrait photography. Thank you, Nick, for inspiring me to create great work with minimal gear and space.
Rated 5 out of 5
Andres Ortiz –
Great material. A lot of examples.
Rated 5 out of 5
Margaret R. –
This book is fantastic in may ways: Nick Fancher is a great writer with very direct no-bs-fluff style that makes reading very enjoyable. Information is broken down for easy digest. It made me rethink my approach to what I do with a camera in order to produce rather than capture interesting, innovative and high-quality photographs. Publication is also beautify designed and edited and images and diagrams make it a great tutorial.
Rated 5 out of 5
MillGirlEntre –
I really enjoyed the tutorials in this book. I wish the OG Studio Anywhere book would come back in stock! This one is great for light theory though!
Rated 5 out of 5
Liam M. –
Dj Khaled must have been talking about Nick Fancher the whole time because he did it again! He published another life changing Photography Book! If you ever think about buying any Book to boost your Photography game – just type F A N C H E R into your Amazon search bar and you will get everything your Tog heart desires!
Rated 5 out of 5
James K Boyer –
Packing light with fast primes, speed lights, and a radio trigger transforms the portrait and commercial photography workflow. And, the “shoot through” reflector hack is practical genius. This is real world stuff; it’s not about buying a bunch of expensive and impractical gear to impress other photographers. You’ll learn to use light better and make better, more expressive photos.
Mr DJ –
As I anticipated, this photo book was a different view of lighting for me and a great addition to my other photo books. It’s has some great procedures in it, it’s good stuff.
Ulysses –
I already own studio anywhere 1, in general, I think this book is good, but I feel that the previous book is better
Rajiv Chopra –
This is definitely a very good book. I have come across his first book, and I think I have a sample somewhere! However, I will read that as well.In this follow up to his first book, Nick Fancher talks about how to use hard light effectively. He uses speedlights, and I like that he does this because they are light and portable. I own a few but have never used them effectively.Nick does give lots of ideas, and he does describe many ways and situations where they can be used effectively, and without huge gear.He is creative, and it shows.I like this book, and definitely, think it is worth buying and reading.
Gloria Z. Nagler –
This book is uniquely useful to photographers because it talks about how to use hard light, the one thing other books on photography tell us to avoid at all cost. Even more than that though, Fancher gives us outside of the box ideas and explains everything in an understandable and easy to follow manner. I don’t think you’ll find a better book on using hard light in your photography.Right off the bat we love the author because he suggests we not buy fancy new gear until we have reached the limitations with the equipment we have. He points out that he also learned more about how to use the equipment than had he if he bought the pro stuff right away. Gave him a broader view of what he could do with light. In the beginning of the book he makes a fun suggestion: shut your window blinds to create a natural light gobo — I love when photographers give us tips and tricks that don’t require a lot of technical knowledge or new equipment :-)I love iPhone tips and this author does not stint. He tells us, for example, that you can accomplish exposure lock on the phone’s camera which I did not know. He also tells us how, over a few pages with illustrations so that we really understand how to get much better pics out of our phones, especially in hard light. Flancher gives us more than other authors might give us regarding how to use light; for example, gives the example of a situation where the model would be in a very tight corner — so how do you set up your off-camera lights to illuminate the scene? He shows us and I have not seen that situation addressed anywhere else-though it must happen fairly often when shooting indoors. Lens flare seems to be a trendy thing in photography these days according to the magazines I peruse, and our author does not disappoint. He has a whole section on intentional lens flare.I love the part where he talks about doing outdoor shoots on a rainy day, yet making the picture look as if it’s a sunny day! The cloning of raindrops and flash does the trick. That’s something else I have not seen elsewhere. This author seems to have done a good job of ferreting out issues not usually talked about. I especially enjoyed his section on inspiration where he talks about finding out that there are so many photographers better than you are 🙂 I find that I get discouraged, too, seeing photos so much beyond what I’m doing but he said he has learned not to pay attention to the competition! Instead, he uses the best pictures he sees and reverse engineers them to find out how they were made. That’s a very good piece of advice and would reduce my envy level a bit :-)Toward the end of the book Fancher has a chapter called “painting with shadow“. Although shadows are mentioned in most photography books discussing light, I don’t believe I’ve seen a section entirely devoted to working with shadows. Grateful to the author for his thoughtfulness.In one of the last chapters the author does a brief a memoir of what it was like to establish himself as a commercial photographer. One never sees this much in photography books unless it’s a book specifically written on the business aspect of photography and I think it was a nice change of pace to come across it in a book on lighting. At the conclusion, the author shows us a few scene set ups in detail when he shot portraits on site. I found it helpful because it felt as though you were right along with him setting it up. Great book to have on your shelf when you face hard light!
Glass Avenue –
I’ve been a professional photographer for several years and this book made me want to get out if my routine and rediscover the fun and art that is portrait lighting.
Brad Wood –
Good lighting tips. Informative with many examples.
G Jerry Martin –
According to Nick Fancher, the author, his book can be described by what it isn’t: a book strictly about hard light scenarios, a how-to lighting manual or a book of the equipment you need to buy. But it IS about how to manipulate, soften and shape light using one or two flash guns with few or no modifiers. Most photo instructional books primarily tell and show the reader how to eliminate hard shadows. It is refreshing to have a book that focuses on what you can do with more dramatic (hard shadow) photography.The photo illustrations not only show the final photo but the photo set up that led to the final photo. He also goes into post processing in Lightroom and Photoshop with screen shots of the settings.
Vinicius Meza –
As your first book, Nick Fancher presents valuable solutions to use anywhere. He shows the cavits, the problems and mainly how to conquer hard light from speedlights! The tips from editing with lightroom are very good and add more value to the book!
Jinette –
love his work. love his books. highly recommend.
SL –
Practical, affordable, plain terms, simple processes – Fancher tells it like it should be told with GREAT examples.
@VKTheMortgageNurse –
Great book. I giggled a few times at the authors candid descriptions. Easy to follow and chalked full of useful information. In fact I’ll buy his first book.
Jeff Ornstein –
There have been many ‘how to’ photographic books written and I would include this as one of the better ones. The author has a very unique and simple way of describing technical concepts and provides many examples and photographs that enhance the written words.This book will help both beginners and advanced photographers in improving their own techniques using available light. Some of the material will need to be read twice but it will be a very worthy task. Mr. Fancher show how shadows can be very helpful to your photography.
Amazon Customer –
I’ve read a few books on photography techniques and this ranks among one of the better ones. Fancher has along with his unique style a very sound approach to photography. It’s not a shopping list for expensive gear and neither is it a recipe book which in my opinion is a good thing. What it is however is an introduction to solving problems, often with limited resources. And how to make spectacular photos with the humblest of gear bags. And lets face it the majority of photographers are not Annie Liebovitz with access to a whole crew of assistents and expensive lighting equipment. This book is for the photographer who either wants to work alone or is forced to.While there are books that go deeper into the physics behind lighting like for example “Light, Science & Magic” this book is more focused to the problems one might encounter while actually making pictures.
Amz Shopper –
This book is an absolute must-have for any photographer interested in portrait photography. Thank you, Nick, for inspiring me to create great work with minimal gear and space.
Andres Ortiz –
Great material. A lot of examples.
Margaret R. –
This book is fantastic in may ways: Nick Fancher is a great writer with very direct no-bs-fluff style that makes reading very enjoyable. Information is broken down for easy digest. It made me rethink my approach to what I do with a camera in order to produce rather than capture interesting, innovative and high-quality photographs. Publication is also beautify designed and edited and images and diagrams make it a great tutorial.
MillGirlEntre –
I really enjoyed the tutorials in this book. I wish the OG Studio Anywhere book would come back in stock! This one is great for light theory though!
Liam M. –
Dj Khaled must have been talking about Nick Fancher the whole time because he did it again! He published another life changing Photography Book! If you ever think about buying any Book to boost your Photography game – just type F A N C H E R into your Amazon search bar and you will get everything your Tog heart desires!
James K Boyer –
Packing light with fast primes, speed lights, and a radio trigger transforms the portrait and commercial photography workflow. And, the “shoot through” reflector hack is practical genius. This is real world stuff; it’s not about buying a bunch of expensive and impractical gear to impress other photographers. You’ll learn to use light better and make better, more expressive photos.
Nic –
buon prodotto