Food Photography: Find Your Artistic Taste
The double artificial light
A course by Jimena Agois Sanchez , Food Stylist and Photographer
About the video: The double artificial light
Overview
“In this part of the process, I will be using two flash lights to illuminate a product. I'll show you how to think about the placement of a main light and a second fill light that will help give the plate brightness and volume.”
In this video lesson Jimena Agois Sanchez addresses the topic: The double artificial 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
“The double artificial light Now I'm going to teach you how to work with artificial light. In this case we have two flash lights, both 600W. If you can see everything around you, it's the Domestika teams that are making a general scene so you can clearly see all the equipment we are using. But for this session, we're using this light over here. and it's from here. The main of the two is going to be the one we have there. It's going to come in strong on this side and it's going to light up the glass making all the light enter this side. This is the strong part of our photo. Keep in mind that ...”
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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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