Portrait Photography: From Art Direction to Editing
Optics and Angles
A course by Rayan Nohra , Photographer
About the video: Optics and Angles
Overview
“The optics and the distance between it and the subject will greatly change the appearance of the face, even distort it. For you to understand this, here I am going to demonstrate it to you using the camera of a phone and a camera.”
In this video lesson Rayan Nohra addresses the topic: Optics and Angles, 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
“Optics and angles After telling you about the lights, I must tell you about another extremely important element: the optics. The optics more or less deform the face of the model, because they reflect reality differently, in a way. The appearance of the person varies according to several parameters, including the distance between you and the model or optic you are using. To illustrate this phenomenon, I show you how it works. Without going into complex technical details, we will see with two photos that a face can be distorted because of the optics or the distance between you and the model. ...”
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Course summary for: Portrait Photography: From Art Direction to Editing
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Category
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Software
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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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