Beauty Photography

Overview

“Now we will see differences between soft and hard light, when to use them and why. It is important to take into account our quality of light to favor different types of skins and generate the mood that we propose. We will demonstrate the use and alternatives of soft light, working with different light modifiers such as: octabox, softbox and umbrella. We will also see how to use hard light with flash reflectors and the use of the Beauty Dish modifier that is an intermediate alternative between both light qualities. ”

In this video lesson Nicolás Cuenca addresses the topic: Hard vs. Soft, which is part of the Domestika online course: Beauty Photography. Learn to produce beauty photographs from the idea to the digital retouching stage.

Partial transcription of the video

“HARD vs. SOFT In this lesson we will see the differences in qualities of light. When I talk about differences in light qualities I mean the hard lights promptly Against the soft lights. To do this demonstration, we are going to use study lights, to which I will change the modifiers to see the difference between hard light and soft light. As you take pictures, I will show them on the computer to see the difference. To begin, I will show how hard light works and how it looks on a face. For that I will use a flash modifier called a saucepan, which is basically not putting anything in front but...”

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Course summary for: Beauty Photography

• Level: Beginner
• 99% positive reviews (153)
• 3485 students
• 5 units
• 26 lessons (4h 50m)
• 9 downloads

• Category

  Photography & Video

• Software

  Adobe Photoshop, Capture One

• Areas

  Digital Photography, Photography, Portrait Photography, Studio Photography