Introduction to Group Portrait Photography
The Photoshoot: Soft Light
A course by Nolwen Cifuentes , Commercial and Editorial Photographer
Joined September 2021
Joined September 2021
About the video: The Photoshoot: Soft Light
Overview
“I will start photographing my whole band with the aforementioned soft-light setup. You'll see how I build this setup, position the group and then move on to photographing!”
In this video lesson Nolwen Cifuentes addresses the topic: The Photoshoot: Soft Light, which is part of the Domestika online course: Introduction to Group Portrait Photography. Explore styling, lighting, composition, movement, and color to take striking group shots that capture the energy of each subject.
Partial transcription of the video
“ The Photoshoot: Soft Light In this lesson, I'll be building a soft light setup and we'll start shooting our band. I'm wearing these blue plastic booties to protect this backdrop floor that we're on. You can also choose to remove your shoes if you don't want to get any scuff marks on the backdrop. I still will have the band keep their shoes on for the looks. I'll now put both of the strobe lights facing this wall and we'll create that large bounced soft light. I've placed my lights. I turned on the modeling light for each of them... That's the continuous light that you see there. ...to see...”
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Course summary for: Introduction to Group Portrait Photography
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Photography, Portrait Photography, Studio Photography
Nolwen Cifuentes
A course by Nolwen Cifuentes
Nolwen Cifuentes is an editorial and portrait photographer from California. She studied graphic design at UCLA before deciding to pursue photography, eventually gaining industry experience shooting weddings. Nolwen then expanded into different styles of photography and, after being featured in a magazine, started reaching out to editors and booking jobs.
Since then, she has captured portraits for well-known magazines, media, tech, beauty, and fashion brands. Her clients include Netflix, People, The New York Times, Entertainment Weekly, and Variety. She was also featured on The Lit List’s 30 New + Emerging Photographers to Watch. Nolwen is passionate about making content that represents the people she didn’t see in the media growing up, and she is a member of Women Photograph, Diversify Photo, and Authority Collective.
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