Looking for Light
Lesson 2 from: Capture and Edit Photos of People in Adobe Lightroom and PhotoshopJared Platt
Looking for Light
Lesson 2 from: Capture and Edit Photos of People in Adobe Lightroom and PhotoshopJared Platt
Lesson Info
2. Looking for Light
Lessons
Introduction
01:26 2Looking for Light
01:40 3Setting Exposure
01:56 4ISO, F-Stop, and Shutter Speed
01:59 5Composition- Rule of Thirds
01:03 6Internal Composition
01:35 7Auto and Back Button Focus
01:35 8Posing vs. Directing
01:12Shooting Manual Mode Recap
01:34 10Lightroom: Interface
00:57 11Lightroom: Importing and Albums
01:33 12Lightroom: Sorting and Ranking
01:56 13Lightroom: Auto Adjustments
01:38 14Lightroom: Color Profiles
02:31 15Lightroom: Export and Share
00:53 16Lightroom: Gradients
02:14 17Lightroom: Brush Tool
01:27 18Lightroom: Copy and Paste Settings
02:09 19Why Use Photoshop
01:03 20Photoshop: Content Aware Fill to Remove Objects
01:16 21Photoshop: Liquify Tool
02:39 22Photoshop: Getting Back to Lightroom
00:36 23Photoshop: Capturing Great Portraits Recap
01:04Lesson Info
Looking for Light
So the first thing that I need to do is start looking for light. I look here and I naturally see one big problem with all the light that's around me and that is that it's a very harsh sun. Because it's noon. It's not in the sweet light of the day in the morning or in the evening. And depending on where you place your subject you can either have them squinting in the sun. You can have light coming from the side. And it's creating hard shadows across their noses. And they just don't look all that great. So we're gonna look for shade. Now in this case because the sun is directly overhead there's very little shade on this location. So what I'm looking for is shade that I can create. And that's simply turning them away from the sun. You can see that Devon and Indy both because they're turned away from the sun have created their own shade. Their face is in the shade of their own body. Which means there are no harsh shadows and as a bonus we get this beautiful rim of light all the way around ...
their hat and on their hair and on their shoulders which helps separate them from the trains in the background which incidentally, the trains in the background have the same advantage because they are faced away from the sun. The sun is beyond them and so they have the same shade that Indy and Devon have. Which means that when I photograph Indy and Devon, they are exactly the same exposure which is gonna make my next job that much easier.
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T. Goss
I enjoyed this quick tutorial. A very good introduction to how to use lightroom.
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