Beauty Photography

Overview

“The main light is our most important light since it will be responsible for illuminating our subject to photograph. We will see why the distance of the subject from the main light is important. We will explore the different alternatives when positioning the main light to achieve different effects and give different types of character to our photo. We will see front light, light at 45 degrees (Rembrandt) and side light. ”

In this video lesson Nicolás Cuenca addresses the topic: Main light, 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

“MAIN LIGHT Now that we saw the difference between hard light and soft light, we are going to talk particularly about how to locate the main light, that within a scheme of lights, It will give us the general character of the image. Let's talk about the main light distance to the model, of the position and we will also talk about the height of the main light in relation to the model. I will place the main light in front of the model, at 45 ° and laterally, I'm going to do some demonstrations, I'm going to take pictures and compare them on the computer. I placed my main light frontally, then I...”

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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