Introduction to Interior Photography
Camera Setting and Lighting
A course by James Rajotte , Photographer
About the video: Camera Setting and Lighting
Overview
“In this lesson you will again observe me as I shoot on location. I will go through all of the camera settings and explain thoroughly what to use and why. The better you understand the technical process of the images, the more consistent and professional-looking your images will be.”
In this video lesson James Rajotte addresses the topic: Camera Setting and Lighting, which is part of the Domestika online course: Introduction to Interior Photography. Create beautiful images of indoor spaces and learn the essentials of planning, shooting, and post-production.
Partial transcription of the video
“In this lesson, we're going to talk about all the camera settings that we'll be using in the shoot. First things first, we always want to be shooting in the raw file format. RAW is the format that gives us the highest quality files with the greatest bit depth. We always want to be striving for the optimum quality for our files. The shutter speed will be our main variable. It will be the control that I change the most during the shoot. That's because our aperture is fixed for all of our pictures. Our ISO is fixed. We're always shooting in RAW, but the shutter speed is what's going to give us...”
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Course summary for: Introduction to Interior Photography
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Category
Photography & Video -
Software
Adobe Lightroom, Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Architectural Photography, Commercial Photography, Interior Photography, Photography

James Rajotte
A course by James Rajotte
Photographer James Rajotte is a native of Pennsylvania, USA, but has been living and working as a photographer in Spain since 2011. Before that time, he collaborated with The New York Times and was a visiting professor at the Rochester Institute of Technology in New York. He specializes in portrait-based stories and campaigns, but also shoots reportage-style imagery, interiors, automobiles, and short films.
His personal work showcases his curiosity for people and is often inspired by his own life. He is a regular contributor to publications like El País Semanal, and has photographed notable figures such as Viggo Mortensen, Pedro Almodóvar, and Iker Casillas.
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