Portrait Photography: From Art Direction to Editing
Lighting
A course by Rayan Nohra , Photographer
About the video: Lighting
Overview
“In this lesson, I'll show you how light dramatically shapes the look of a photo, and especially the model's face.”
In this video lesson Rayan Nohra addresses the topic: Lighting, which is part of the Domestika online course: Portrait Photography: From Art Direction to Editing. Discover studio photography techniques to capture striking portraits, from directing the model to editing in Lightroom.
Partial transcription of the video
“The light In the previous lesson, we have seen together the devices that you can use. We're gonna lean into the light and its importance for your portrait. Realize that the light is one of the main information of your photo, so it will largely define the result. Whether because of its direction, its intensity, great attention should be paid to it, because it is one of the information that will constitute your portrait. One of the most common types of lighting in photography is the flash, which has many advantages. It has the advantage of being able to freeze very dynamic actions. There is a...”
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Course summary for: Portrait Photography: From Art Direction to Editing
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Category
Photography & Video -
Software
Adobe Lightroom -
Areas
Fine-Art Photography, Interior Photography, Photographic Lighting, Photography, Photography Post-production, Portrait Photography

Rayan Nohra
A course by Rayan Nohra
Rayan Nohra has been taking pictures since he was a young teenager. His travels, his friends, his daily life as a high school student... Nothing escaped his shutter. After his first paid shots for Parisian thrift stores, he became an assistant to an art director before starting his own business in photography.
He works mainly for the editorial and advertising sectors and has already collaborated with Paco Rabanne and magazines like Numéro and Barbes. He has also photographed personalities from all walks of life, from painter Takashi Murakami to poet Sonny Hall and rapper 6lack.
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