Food Photography Basic Techniques

Lighting angles and modifiers

A course by Ernesto López (Alkimia) , Commercial photographer

Commercial photographer. Morelia, Mexico.
Joined November 2017

Know the process to accomplish a food photo production

  • Spanish with subtitles in English
  • 99% positive reviews (136)
  • 3114 students

About the video: Lighting angles and modifiers

Overview

“ Knowing how to use a flash is knowing how to place it in the right position and with the right diffuser. Here we will know the lighting angles and modifiers that you can use for your photos. ”

In this video lesson Ernesto López (Alkimia) addresses the topic: Lighting angles and modifiers, which is part of the Domestika online course: Food Photography Basic Techniques. Know the process to accomplish a food photo production.

Partial transcription of the video

“Photographic equipment Lighting angles and modifiers We have already seen how some of our equipment works, Now we will see the most important thing, How to use our lights. That part is what gives character to your image. The lighting will be generated by two important aspects: the lighting angle and the light modifier you will use. We'll see. For this example I gave you, let's start from a center. You will always start where your object starts at your camera. As we can see in the example, The first thing we did was generate a camera shot. The camera shot is the distance between your object ...”

This transcript is automatically generated, so it may contain mistakes.

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Course summary for: Food Photography Basic Techniques

  • Level: Beginner
  • 99% positive reviews (136)
  • 3114 students
  • 6 units
  • 17 lessons (2h 0m)
  • 18 downloads
  • Category

    Photography & Video
  • Software

    Adobe Lightroom, Adobe Photoshop
  • Areas

    Digital Photography, Food Photography, Food Styling, Studio Photography

Ernesto López (Alkimia)

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Commercial photographer

Ernesto López Ruiz is a commercial photographer specialized in gastronomic photography. Degree in Graphic Communication Design at the Universidad Latina de América (Morelia, Mexico) and professor, by academic excellence, in the Master's Degree in Photographic Design at the Universidad Iberoamericana (León, México).

In 2001 he opened his creative workshop "Alkimia" in the city of Morelia (Mexico), where he carries out projects for various brands, among which are: AAK, Cinépolis, Coffee Tree, Spyral, among others. He has also taught basic and advanced photography at the bachelor's level at the Universidad Latina de América (Morelia, Mexico), and at the master's level at the Iberoamerican universities León and De La Salle Bajío (León, Mexico).

His specialty is lighting, camera management and digital postproduction.


Spanish with subtitles in English
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  • 3114 students
  • 17 lessons (2h 0m)
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Food Photography Basic Techniques. Photography, and Video course by Ernesto López (Alkimia)

Food Photography Basic Techniques

A course by Ernesto López (Alkimia)
Commercial photographer. Morelia, Mexico.
Joined November 2017
  • 99% positive reviews (136)
  • 3114 students