Creative Lighting for Portraits
What will we do in the course?
A course by Victor Idrogo , Photographer
About the video: What will we do in the course?
Overview
“In the course we will make a great session with three different settings and we will see the whole process that this implies, from the assembly of sketches, the production itself, to the finishing in Photoshop. The final project will be three final photographs with the same character. ”
In this video lesson Victor Idrogo addresses the topic: What will we do in the course?, which is part of the Domestika online course: Creative Lighting for Portraits. Get into experimental photography and learn to improve your use of expressive lighting.
Partial transcription of the video
“What will we do during the course? In the course we will mix different lighting techniques to see how they work, how they interrelate, and how can we mix them again. All the basics you know about lighting we will mix it with continuous light, either of flashlights or LED. For this we will work with lights and we will use different materials to see how they reflect, either in flashes or in these elements of continuous light. We will use two techniques: the first will be a kind of "light painting" applied to portrait, and we will use it with lights. The second technique will be to experiment ...”
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Course summary for: Creative Lighting for Portraits
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Category
Photography & Video -
Software
Adobe Photoshop, Capture One -
Areas
Fine-Art Photography, Photographic Lighting, Photography, Portrait Photography, Studio Photography

Victor Idrogo
A course by Victor Idrogo
Victor Idrogo is a professional photographer from Peru. For more than 10 years he has been dedicated to commercial photography and has specialized in portraits. His works have been published in magazines such as Somos y cosas.
In his commercial office called Icónica Institucional Photography, he works with a team of professionals with whom he makes portraits and photographic coverage for companies and different institutions.
In parallel, he performs more personal work, also based on portraits and experimentation with the expressive use of light.
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