Food Photography: Find Your Artistic Taste
Natural light
A course by Jimena Agois Sanchez , Food Stylist and Photographer
About the video: Natural light
Overview
“In this lesson I will talk about natural light. I will tell you how to identify it in a space and how to handle it optimally for photos. I will also tell you about the difference between hard light and soft light, and what are the tools to achieve them using diffusers or bounces. Finally I will talk to you about the direction of light and its effects.”
In this video lesson Jimena Agois Sanchez addresses the topic: Natural light, which is part of the Domestika online course: Food Photography: Find Your Artistic Taste. Learn to take mouth-watering culinary photographs by exploring food styling, lighting, and perspective, and give them a signature look with editing techniques.
Partial transcription of the video
“natural light In this lesson I will teach you how to work with natural light. It is important to tell you that we are working next to a window and there will be some noise of what happens on the street. Don't get distracted because we are going to talk of several things that will interest you. It is important that, first of all, identify the largest light source or window that you have at home, in the workplace, wherever you go to take your photos. It is important that it is lateral, it does not matter if it is left or right, always sideways to the camera. To find out how your light source ...”
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Course summary for: Food Photography: Find Your Artistic Taste
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Food Photography, Food Styling, Photographic Lighting
Jimena Agois Sanchez
A course by Jimena Agois Sanchez
Jimena Agois is a photographer and food stylist with a passion for travel based in Lima, Peru. Her love and appreciation of good food was apparent from a young age and she soon made it part of her day-to-day through her photography.
She started out as an assistant to Chilean photographer Miguel Etchepare and later specialized in food photography while also dabbling in travel and documentary photography. Since 2004, she's been managing her own photography studio, Agoisfoto, which is dedicated to the creation, production, styling, and preparation of product and food photographs.
She's worked with restaurants including Central, Astrid & Gaston, Mayta, D'Sala, Pescados Capitales, and more, at both a national and international level. She has also been collaborating as editor of the Diario Correo food column since 2012 and been a Canon ambassador since 2018.
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