Studio Lighting 101
Soft Natural Light
A course by Julia Robbs , Photographer
About the video: Soft Natural Light
Overview
“In this lesson, I will show you how I use studio lighting to replicate natural daylight in studio. We will want to replicate soft, diffused light. For this photoshoot, we will be using two lights with large umbrellas, and sock diffusions.”
In this video lesson Julia Robbs addresses the topic: Soft Natural Light, which is part of the Domestika online course: Studio Lighting 101. Learn how to capture unique portraits by exploring different professional studio lighting setups.
Partial transcription of the video
“Soft Natural Light In this lesson I'll show you how to set up your lighting so that you can replicate nice, natural looking daylight but using strobe lighting. For this we'll use two lights and our modifiers will be two large umbrellas with sock diffusion. We'll do our first photo shoot, we have our lovely model Shay here, she'll be modeling for us. Thanks for coming, excited to work with you. This first shot that we're doing is the natural daylight, soft diffused light. So I've got my two lights here, I'm going to turn them on, just as easy as that. So my lights are on and what I like to d...”
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Course summary for: Studio Lighting 101
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Category
Photography & Video -
Software
Adobe Photoshop, Capture One -
Areas
Digital Photography, Photographic Lighting, Photography, Studio Photography

Julia Robbs
A course by Julia Robbs
Julia Robbs is a commercial photographer based in New York City. Before moving to NYC, she was raised in France and studied photography in Chicago and Atlanta. Her work aims to be clean, polished, and thoughtful, while remaining authentic to her subjects.
Julia’s photography allows her to travel the world while developing her craft, and covers a wide range of fields, including lifestyle, portraiture, beauty, and fashion. Her client list includes Erno Laszlo, Odette NY, Refinery29, Etsy, Dropbox, Armand de Brignac, Urban Outfitters, Mailchimp, and more.
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