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The Window-Light Handbook
Photographing books with the light you already have
One window, one book, and a way of seeing both properly.
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Most book photos fail before the shutter is pressed: the light is coming from the wrong side, or from everywhere at once. This handbook starts with the window you already have and teaches you to read it like a photographer does.
You'll learn where to set the book relative to the glass, when a north-facing room beats a sunny one, how a sheet of white card does the work of a reflector, and why the softest shots are often taken at four in the afternoon. Every chapter ends with a shot recipe you can set up in ten minutes.
No ring light, no studio, no jargon you have to look up. Just the light, the book, and a few honest corrections.
Inside this guide
- Reading a window: direction, distance and the hour
- Side light, back light and the flat-light trap
- Bounce and flag: white card, black card, a linen napkin
- Matte covers, foil covers and the glare problem
- Twelve shot recipes, from overhead flatlay to spine-out stack
From chapter one
Look inside
Move the book until that patch sits just behind your shoulder and to one side. The cover will turn from flat to dimensional, and the title will separate from the background on its own.
Readers on this guide
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- Vol. IThe Window-Light Handbook
- Vol. IIProps on a Shoestring
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