Food Photography Basic Techniques
Light quality
A course by Ernesto López (Alkimia) , Commercial photographer
About the video: Light quality
Overview
“I will tell you about the differences between hard light and soft light, and we will see how, using very simple lighting, we can achieve great results. ”
In this video lesson Ernesto López (Alkimia) addresses the topic: Light quality, 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
“Lighting Light quality We already learned to control the amount of light that our camera captures. Now let's see how to control the quality of light. It refers to converting a hard light into a soft light. We are going to take a picture like the previous time. We simply activate our shutter and check it. As we talked, the transfer zone between shadows and lights is very short, As we can see in this part. Here, if you look, the shadow and diffusion value is very short, We call that a hard light. How can we soften it? Very simple, you can use a diffuser what can you get anywhere They are very...”
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Course summary for: Food Photography Basic Techniques
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Category
Photography & Video -
Software
Adobe Lightroom, Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Digital Photography, Food Photography, Food Styling, Studio Photography
Ernesto López (Alkimia)
A course by Ernesto López (Alkimia)
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.
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