Mobile Photography and Visual Identity for Instagram
Photos with Defined Shadows
A course by Mina Barrio , Product Photographer
About the video: Photos with Defined Shadows
Overview
“Defined shadows are becoming more and more fashionable. It has something of the energy of the direct sun, everything takes on a special shine! In this lesson I am going to tell you exactly how I take the photos with direct sunlight so that they are so striking. In addition, we will see how to make them with artificial light and, at the end, I will do an extra tutorial to achieve a "flash" effect.”
In this video lesson Mina Barrio addresses the topic: Photos with Defined Shadows, 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
“Photos with defined shadows Now we will see the second type of light that I wanted to show you, what is hard light These shadows, as I said, are defined, that is, they make a perfect drawing of the object on the ground or wherever they reflect, they can be on a wall, a table or any surface. You will be tired of seeing them on Instagram because many brands and influencers are using them, and they are super pretty. When is there hard light? Basically when the light source is giving directly somewhere. For example, from here, from my window, I don't see the sun, because now I have a soft light...”
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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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