Mobile Photography and Visual Identity for Instagram
Managing Soft Light
A course by Mina Barrio , Product Photographer
About the video: Managing Soft Light
Overview
“If you took my first course, you already know that I LOVE soft light. I think soft shadows suit most photos and I'm sure you can get to take photos just like mine by following these tips. Ah! And if you don't have natural light, you can also get them, pay attention!”
In this video lesson Mina Barrio addresses the topic: Managing Soft Light, which is part of the Domestika online course: Mobile Photography and Visual Identity for Instagram. Give your feed a professional look by developing a coherent and stylish communication strategy.
Partial transcription of the video
“Get a soft light Now we will start working with light, and we will make a soft light. As we already talked about, light is super important and it will greatly affect the style of the photo. That's why in these lessons I will teach you how to really handle it and be able to achieve the result that you really propose. Soft light is a type of light that is very homogeneous, that fills the whole image, quite similar everything and achieve a diffused shadow that is barely noticeable. You can see where the shadow falls, because it's not running out of shadows, if not, things would not have volume...”
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Course summary for: Mobile Photography and Visual Identity for Instagram
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Category
Marketing & Business, Photography & Video -
Areas
Advertising, Instagram, Instagram Photography, Lifestyle Photography, Marketing, Mobile Marketing, Mobile Photography, Photography, Product Photography, Social Media

Mina Barrio
A course by Mina Barrio
Mina Barrio is a product photographer at Melon Blanc, a multidisciplinary studio that specializes in visual identity design for brands.
Mina’s mission is to create visual content for a range of successful brands including Charuca, Lucia Be, The Singular Olivia, and La Compañía Fantástica. Taking and editing photos for Instagram means taking every single detail into account, right down to the elements that might look out of place.
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