Creative Lighting for Portraits

You will meet Victor, who will explain his career in the world of photography, his specialization in portraits and tell you about his references in this field.

You will start with a brief walk through the history of the portrait, seeing some examples. Next, Victor will tell you what his creative process is like. You will see the necessary materials and equipment for your photo shoot (hand flashes, studio flashes, leds , flashlights, modifiers ...).

Camera and action! You will start shooting by experimenting with the color and two lights: continuous and flash , and you will make a bust plane. You will go deeper into the lighting, direction of models, composition, techniques and key points for the second photo that will be a medium vertical plane and the third photo, which will be an entire vertical plane. You will play a part with Capture One and the final part will be taken in the dark with double direct exposure.

You will go to the development and retouching part, selecting and making some adjustments to the best images of the third session with Capture One; you will choose the three that best fit your project, you will do the pre-assembly of the edition and you will look at the relationship between them. You will make exposure, contrast and clarity adjustments to give them a similar and unified look .

Then, you will edit them in Photoshop, looking at specific aspects such as the high-pass approach. Finally, you will export the images to the web, also seeing how to adjust your photographs to share them on social networks.