Studio Lighting 101
Beauty Lighting: Two Ways
A course by Julia Robbs , Photographer
About the video: Beauty Lighting: Two Ways
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
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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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