Lighting is one of the most important elements of shooting in the studio and is crucial to portrait photography. If you're still new to studio work and portrait lighting, you can actually practice with one-light setups tried and tested by pros.
We have several learning resources that cover this, the latest being a handy photography cheat sheet that features classic setups you can get started with. . thephoblographer.com
Here’s a simple breakdown of 7 different lighting techniques you can implement next time you shoot portraits with studio lighting. For these examples, we used continuous lights to better illustrate it, but you can strobes as well, of course. petapixel.com »
2019-02-26 20:00
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