Conceptual Portrait Photography
Lighting schemes
A course by Veronica Cerna , Photographer
About the video: Lighting schemes
Overview
“In this lesson, you will learn to use two light schemes that are widely used in portraits: Rembrandt and Mariposa . I will tell you about how to observe details to make decisions about the direction of light and play with the elements you have. ”
In this video lesson Veronica Cerna addresses the topic: Lighting schemes, which is part of the Domestika online course: Conceptual Portrait Photography. Explore your imagination and delve into lighting and post-production techniques to create conceptual photos.
Partial transcription of the video
“Lighting schemes Now we will see two lighting schemes which are Rembrandt and "butterfly". The first, Rembrandt, is inspired by the painter of the baroque current which makes some interesting light studies very based on chiaroscuro and in giving a relief to the almost three-dimensional person as if the bodies came out of the paintings. To perform this scheme, the camera is facing the person you are going to portray and the light goes forty-five degrees in the lateral direction if we imagine that there is an angle of ninety degrees between the camera and the portrayed. To take this picture, ...”
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Course summary for: Conceptual Portrait Photography
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Category
Photography & Video -
Software
Adobe Lightroom, Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Fine-Art Photography, Photography, Portrait Photography
Veronica Cerna
A course by Veronica Cerna
Verónica Cerna is a Peruvian-born photographer. She studied Audiovisual Communication at the University of Lima, she has a postgraduate degree in Photography from The International Center of Photography in New York, and specialization courses in portraits and experimental video in Buenos Aires.
In 2013, she co-founded BAF, a photographic and audiovisual studio dedicated to the creation of conceptual projects.
Her work has been recognized at the International Photography Awards, The Photo Phore, and published in magazines such as Musée Magazine, Shots Magazine, Better Photography, and Pecado Magazine.
She currently resides and works between Lima and New York.
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