Photography: Art and Techniques Specialization

Overview

“In this lesson, I will delve into light and its relation to portraiture. ”

In this video lesson Domestika addresses the topic: Understanding Light, 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

“ Understanding Light. In this lesson, I want to talk a bit about understanding light. With a lot of my work, I will... start with using available light, day light, as my key light. Several reasons for this. One reason and one key reason I think when working in headshots is that it is more democratic in the sense that, when we see somebody lit with natural light, we can instinctively understand it a bit easier. If you're using artificial light, and I do, and lots of my great favourite photographs have been taken with flash or LEDs or whatever, but there are a lot of creative choices to be m...”

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Course summary for: Photography: Art and Techniques Specialization

• Level: Beginner
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• 6398 students
• 7 units
• 92 lessons (14h 16m)
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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