Studio Lighting 101

Overview

“In this lesson, we will set up lighting for a typical beauty shoot. I will start by showing you how to light a beauty shoot with just one light, then we will see how we can enhance the photo a bit more by adding one more light.”

In this video lesson Julia Robbs addresses the topic: Beauty Lighting: Two Ways, 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

“Beauty Lighting: Two Ways In this lesson we'll set up our lights so that we can do a beauty portrait. We'll start with one light and then we'll add in a second one to see how we can enhance the image. For this portrait I'll be using a beauty dish. A beauty dish is a round shape and it uses a parabolic reflector to direct light towards a focal point. The beauty dish is like a soft, hard light, it's gonna be softer than one of your on-camera flashes or even just a strobe without any modifiers, but it's gonna be harder than a light with a soft box or an umbrella. It great since it illuminates ...”

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Course summary for: Studio Lighting 101

• Level: Beginner
• 89% positive reviews (38)
• 1639 students
• 4 units
• 13 lessons (1h 50m)

• Category

  Photography & Video

• Software

  Adobe Photoshop, Capture One

• Areas

  Digital Photography, Photographic Lighting, Photography, Studio Photography