Introduction to Child Photography
illumination
A course by Leila Méndez , Photographer
About the video: illumination
Overview
“We will talk about the importance of light, how to optimize our resources and some specific needs that usually occur in sessions with children, in terms of lighting.”
In this video lesson Leila Méndez addresses the topic: illumination, which is part of the Domestika online course: Introduction to Child Photography. Learn to lead a kid’s photo shoot: prepare, direct, edit and present the final results.
Partial transcription of the video
“illumination In this lesson we will talk about enlightenment, what light scheme we have raised and why. To start I will tell you what to illuminate in a session with children It is quite different from how we illuminate a fashion session to use. Why? Because children move a lot and quite unpredictably. So, we should have the field of action a bit covered, that is, we must put a light scheme so that if they step back or forward, there is not much jump of diaphragm. For this we need either to boost the flash Or put more than one. What was our scheme? On the one hand, we place an octa behind m...”
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Course summary for: Introduction to Child Photography
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Commercial Photography, Lifestyle Photography, Photography
Leila Méndez
A course by Leila Méndez
Leila is a photographer specialized in portraiture and with a special predilection for working with children. Leila is from Barcelona, and after more than 20 years working in the publishing and advertising world, she discovered that what interests her most about photography is the contact with people and learning from others through the camera. Believe strongly in the power of children to communicate and tell stories. That's why he tries to turn his sessions into something special and magical, through color, props or clothes.
His work has been exhibited in festivals and exhibitions in many cities, such as La Caixa Foundation, Iguapop Hall, Fnac or FashionWeek Barcelona, among others. In addition, he has worked for The Observer (The Guardian), Vogue Spain, Architectural Digest (AD) or El País Semanal (El País), and has done advertising campaigns for Uniqlo, Fly Emirates, Diesel, Adidas, Vodafone, Virgin, IKEA, Desigual, El Corte Inglés and Carolina Herrera.
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