Studio Photography Lighting as a Creative Resource (Spanish, Multisub)

Master the light and find your own style as a photographer Light is the key element of photography and knowing how to master it is a determining factor in achieving a style of its own. The photographer Antonio Garci, a specialist in studio photography with eight years of experience, will share all the secrets to use lighting as a creative resource in a shooting.

In this course you will learn photo studio lighting techniques to use it to serve your creativity and achieve your own style.

What will you learn in this online course? You will begin knowing the beginnings of Antonio Garci as a photographer, his influences and his current work.

Next, it will show you the lighting material you use, some keys about photometry, the different forms of light and how to get to define volumes through lights and shadows.

Once you have understood the basic concepts, you will analyze the light used in some photographs of Antonio and his favorite authors.

At this point, it will be time to get down to work and assemble your first lighting scheme, learning to measure in high key (predominance of white) and low (predominance of black).

You will also learn the importance of having a main light, the orientation of the light depending on the subject, to create lighting schemes as conceptualization of the environment and some tricks that will allow you to reduce the costs of your photography set.

Once you have taken your images, you will go to the post-production phase and it will be time to retouch the lighting applying techniques of developing photos in RAW and digital Retouching with Photoshop.

What is this course’s project? The project of the course will consist of imitating a famous photograph reproducing the way in which it is illuminated and then giving it your own style applying all the concepts learned during the course.

Who is this online course for? To photographers and photography lovers who want to acquire control of lighting as an added to their abilities.

Whether you prefer natural light because you do not dare with the flash, as if you know how to use flashes but you do not get the results you are looking for, welcome, this course is for you.

Requirements and materials It is necessary to have basic knowledge of the use of the camera in manual mode. If you have lighting material, preferably flash, better.