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

“In the last lesson, we went over how light falls off 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. So for our first setup, we're going to 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. And to do that, we're going to use an octagonal soft source with a grid on it so it doesn't spray all ...”

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Course summary for: Photography: Art and Techniques Specialization

• Level: Intermediate
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• 6620 students
• 7 units
• 92 lessons (13h 55m)
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• Category

  Photography & Video

• Areas

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