Photography: Art and Techniques Specialization

Overview

“Here I will show you a handful of common setups that people tend to always come back to. These examples work for a proven look. You can use them in your own experimentation as something to build from.”

In this video lesson Domestika addresses the topic: Common Lighting Setups for Portraits, which is part of the Domestika online course: Photography: Art and Techniques Specialization. Master basic camera skills, explore photography theory, and capture unique images using any type of camera.

Partial transcription of the video

“ Common Lighting Setups for Portraits. In the last lesson, we saw how light falls differently with focused and non-focused light. In this lesson, we'll go over some common portrait lighting setups that I certainly use and lots of people do in the real world. For this lesson, Megan is helping us out as a model. Thank you, Megan. Rembrandt Setup For our first setup, we will do Rembrandt lighting, which is a very classic look. The telltale sign of Rembrandt lighting is a little triangle of light on the shadow side of the face. To do that, we'll use an octagonal soft source with a grid on it, ...”

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Course summary for: Photography: Art and Techniques Specialization

• Level: Beginner
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• 3164 students
• 7 units
• 92 lessons (14h 16m)
• 37 downloads

• Category

  Photography & Video

• Areas

  Color Theory, Digital Photography, Lifestyle Photography, Outdoor Photography, Photographic Composition, Photographic Lighting, Photography, Self-Portrait Photography, Studio Photography