Food Photography for Beginners: Embracing Natural Light

Overview

“Now you will see how to modify the photographs so that they can communicate the desired sensations and to add a personal touch that can become a recognizable and unique style note over time.”

In this video lesson Michael Gardenia addresses the topic: Image Editing, which is part of the Domestika online course: Food Photography for Beginners: Embracing Natural Light. Learn how to use natural light in photography to create a social media friendly culinary still life, from photo shoot to post-production.

Partial transcription of the video

“Image editing In this post-lesson we produce our photographs. The first thing to do when the RAW file is imported into the RAW camera is to analyze the histogram. This graph allows us to visualize the brightness over the entire surface of the photo. Horizontally we have the range, or the distribution between the less exposed and the more exposed areas over the entire surface of the photo. Vertically, however, we have the amount of surface of the photo for that particular brightness. If we compare, for example, the second photo and the third one, which are comparatively brighter and darker, ...”

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Course summary for: Food Photography for Beginners: Embracing Natural Light

• Level: Beginner
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• 1044 students
• 4 units
• 15 lessons (1h 42m)
• 2 downloads

• Category

  Photography & Video

• Software

  Camera Raw

• Areas

  Digital Photography, Food Photography, Food Styling, Instagram Photography, Lifestyle Photography, Photo Retouching, Photography