Color and Lighting Effects for Studio Photography
Light Hacks
A course by Eivind Hansen , Photographer
About the video: Light Hacks
Overview
“Now we will look at a few alternatives for RGB lights, such as using our phone screens as a coloured light source. I will also show you how one can put gels on lights instead of using RGB lights before taking a look at some other projector attachment alternatives.”
In this video lesson Eivind Hansen addresses the topic: Light Hacks, which is part of the Domestika online course: Color and Lighting Effects for Studio Photography. Explore unconventional lighting techniques to create visually striking portraits that bring out the magic of photography on set.
Partial transcription of the video
“Light Hacks In this lesson, I want to show you some alternative. I know a lot of you might not have access to the RGB PavoTubes or the projector attachments. So I'll show you some easy and affordable ways how to create your own RGB lights and different ways of using these for different types of effects. I also want to show you other ways of creating projector attachments that doesn't involve spending a lot of money. One of the apps on the iPhone is called the RGB app. It basically allows you to just pull the slider, choose your own colour and then just screenshot it and then fill out the wh...”
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Course summary for: Color and Lighting Effects for Studio Photography
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Areas
Digital Photography, Fine-Art Photography, Photographic Lighting, Photography, Portrait Photography, Studio Photography

Eivind Hansen
A course by Eivind Hansen
Eivind Hansen is a Norwegian photographer with a passion for complex lighting and compositions. Towards the end of his university degree, he completed his first big photography project, which was an image series titled “TETE-A-TETE” for the Norwegian magazine Hymen. The series received a lot of positive feedback, which led to Eivind doing his first solo exhibition in London in 2016.
Since then, Eivind has collaborated with clients like Adobe Photoshop, Yohji Yamamoto (one of Japan’s most famous fashion designers), and the United Nations. The latter was a photo series of the activists of the Kaleidoscope Trust, which was exhibited in the Australian Embassy and later earned him the Gay Times Honors Award for arts and culture. He is currently a brand ambassador for Nanlite, and has been featured in publications like Hunger TV, Out Magazine, and Gay Times.
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