Product Photography Specialization: Lighting, Styling, and Storytelling

Overview

“Most of the photographers do not design their own set, there is a set designer for that job in the team. It is not an easy one to do, that's why it’s a separate profession. However, I’ve learned that sometimes you have to do everything alone. In this lesson, I’ll share some tips on how to set up lighting and design your set to arrange the photo shooting of our first product.”

In this video lesson Domestika addresses the topic: Setting up Lighting and Set for First Image, which is part of the Domestika online course: Product Photography Specialization: Lighting, Styling, and Storytelling. Master product photography for advertising with techniques in lighting, styling, and storytelling to enhance brand identity.

Partial transcription of the video

“Setting Up Lighting and Set for the First Image In this lesson, we'll start building our set for the first picture. We'll set up the light and put the props around the product. When we shoot advertising images, there is a certain role, a set designer role, who actually builds the set for us. We won't do that. We're going to be our own set designer, so we will need to figure out how to get the different kinds of materials, props, whatever we're planning to use. It won't be that complicated, actually, because you can just go to any kind of hardware store or Home Depot stores, gardening stores...”

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Course summary for: Product Photography Specialization: Lighting, Styling, and Storytelling

• Level: Beginner
• 15 students
• 6 units
• 74 lessons (12h 10m)
• 21 downloads

• Category

  Photography & Video

• Areas

  Advertising, Commercial Photography, Digital Photography, Photographic Lighting, Photography Post-production, Photomontage, Product Photography, Set Design, Studio Photography