Good book about Lightning & Color??

[malu05]

Still got a little half year before im going to work on the final projects for my Show-Reel and i really wanted to get the most importaint theory in place (as a Comper).
I have for a long time wanted to learn more about lightning and how it affects color of surfaces and objects etc and i also feel like i got a little hole in the whole color theory part.

So i wonder if any of you guys know of any good learning material for that kind of stuff?

[ShakeandBake]

http://www.amazon.com/Digital-Lighting-Rendering-2nd-digital/dp/0321316312/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1196774600&sr=8-1
http://www.amazon.com/Digital-Texturing-Painting-digital-Demers/dp/0735709181/ref=pd_bxgy_b_img_b
http://www.amazon.com/Digital-Compositing-Film-Video-Second/dp/024080760X/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1196774684&sr=1-1

[sgr]

you might also enjoy the theory of Color (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_Colours) by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/99/De-Johann_Wolfgang_von_Goethe.ogg) .

[Tkaos]

So here my 2 cents:

Check this one, that REALLY REALLY Great as a Base of lighting and color:

http://www.thegnomonworkshop.com/dvds/jvi01.html

Then, the book of Jeremy Birn is a reference too... (Posted already by ShakeandBake :)

http://www.amazon.com/Digital-Lighting-Rendering-2nd-digital/dp/0321316312/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1196772938&sr=1-1

Hope that helped you - Now, Returning to bed, I'm sick :/

[malu05]

Thanks to you all, this is very much appriciated!
Looking forward to read through some of these, that Gnomonworkshop dvd seems quite good too, i have seen some of their products and think they are of a great quality.

[jjones]

I practically own stock in Amazon.com for all the books I've bought over the years for both visual effects and photography.

My advice...



..pick up a camera.

There's no better way to learn about exposure, lighting ratio, color, photo optics, and composition (all things I deal with every day sitting in my cubicle) than photography. We're not recreating how things look in the real world, we're recreating how things in the real world look photographed through several pieces of glass.

I've learned more by going outside and shooting photos on the weekend then I did reading all of the books on my shelf. Plus you get to be outside. :)

Look at photographs and ask yourself, "what makes this object look real?...why does it work? what makes it sell that its really there?"

Analyze light direction, quality (hard/soft), color, shadow (quality, color, shape), reflection, specularity, bounce color (on the env., or the env. on the object), etc.

Don't get me wrong, there are some amazing books out there. But there's just so much people miss that can be learned through simply looking around.

But I still love books and this is the next one on my list: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0240808193/giftfella-20

Not sure how it will help with compositing, probably just helpful with lighting. And it's most likely more technical than needed for what we do but I hear it's worth checking out for photographers.

[malu05]

I practically own stock in Amazon.com for all the books I've bought over the years for both visual effects and photography.

My advice...



..pick up a camera.

There's no better way to learn about exposure, lighting ratio, color, photo optics, and composition (all things I deal with every day sitting in my cubicle) than photography. We're not recreating how things look in the real world, we're recreating how things in the real world look photographed through several pieces of glass.

I've learned more by going outside and shooting photos on the weekend then I did reading all of the books on my shelf. Plus you get to be outside. :)

Look at photographs and ask yourself, "what makes this object look real?...why does it work? what makes it sell that its really there?"

Analyze light direction, quality (hard/soft), color, shadow (quality, color, shape), reflection, specularity, bounce color (on the env., or the env. on the object), etc.

Don't get me wrong, there are some amazing books out there. But there's just so much people miss that can be learned through simply looking around.

But I still love books and this is the next one on my list: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0240808193/giftfella-20

Not sure how it will help with compositing, probably just helpful with lighting. And it's most likely more technical than needed for what we do but I hear it's worth checking out for photographers.


Yhea, i have been looking for on a camera for some time but i really want a good house with a good lense and are proply´going to spend around 1k$ for starters and i don´t really have room in my budget for that kind of hole at the moment. But a few books or DVD´s don´t eat that much.
I do learn alot by looking around yes but im sure some theory behind it would help me alot in serval projects and i do find it a very interesting subject.

[jimbullard]

Do you mean lighting or lightning?

[malu05]

Do you mean lighting or lightning?

Hehe lighting ^^!;)

[jemi]

I'd recommend this book. *not* because a friend of mine is in it, though. *snicker*

http://www.amazon.com/Essential-Lighting-Techniques-3ds-Max/dp/024052022X/ref=pd_sim_b_img_4

[addy999]

Yea i know a magazine called Car info which is very good ... it have some inp. information about latest technologies .......