Product Photography with Direct Sunlight

You will start by knowing more about Paloma, its origins and how they have influenced your visual universe. It will tell you about what inspires it and what its referents are.

It will give you tips to make your compositions beyond the law of thirds, you will see how to use the shadows as a creative resource and what formats work for social networks.

You will learn to work direct sunlight and see how different types of materials respond to hard light. You will explore the shadows projection of materials with and without transparencies ... it is important that you experiment! Either with materials or with different objects to be able to get the most out of your compositions.

Apps as Sun Surveyor will help you to anticipate the path of sunlight and thus set a time slot to carry out your photo shoot.

You will make a moodboard or style board to land the ideas you have in your head. In addition, you will develop a treatment for each of them: color palette, materials, composition and point of view.

You will explore Adobe Lightroom and Snapseed, really useful applications when taking pictures and editing them.

Camera and action! You will create your compositions by experimenting with the shadows and shoot the images from various points of view. Then you will adjust the exposure using the high beam indicator to check that nothing is burned in the image or underexposed.

Finally, you will adjust the framing, color and light values of the images, leaving them ready for publication. Paloma will give you some valuable tips to reach more followers but doing it in a qualitative way.

Ready to shine on social networks?