Transform Your Portraits Using Creative Lighting
Use color to evoke emotion in your portraits with creative lighting techniques! Join Mary Bel as she demonstrates a variety of budget friendly ways to introduce color into your portrait lighting. Starting with gels, Mary walks through several live shoots to demonstrate how you can use color to tell a story. From there, Mary shows how she carves light using tools like flashlights, plastic rulers, and other dollar store finds. Mary wraps up the class with a demonstration of how to incorporate several of these techniques into a single shoot for truly dynamic results.
Release Date: 2021-10-21
Lessons
Introduction
The instructor introduces the class and discusses what will be covered in the lessons that follow.
Duration: 1 mins 1 seconds
Let’s Talk About Gels
Gels are used to add color to your lights.
Duration: 4 mins 15 seconds
Shooting with Gels: Hot in the City
With a live model on location, Mary demonstrates her process for shooting with colored gels.
Duration: 12 mins 27 seconds
Shooting with Gels: Kiss of Teal
Building on the previous lesson, Mary changes things up with a new outfit and a new gel color.
Duration: 8 mins 36 seconds
Shooting with Gels: Silhouette
Putting a gelled soft box behind the subject is a way to create a colorful silhouette.
Duration: 4 mins 1 seconds
What Makes Light Interesting?
Mary discusses what makes light interesting and how to create that in your work.
Duration: 4 mins 18 seconds
Carving Light
You can use a flashlight to carve light exactly where you want it to appear.
Duration: 10 mins 26 seconds
Blocking Light
In this lesson Mary plays with light blocking and bouncing techniques to make things interesting.
Duration: 6 mins 3 seconds
Letting Light Through: Part 1
Another way to play with light is to let some light through material in front of the light source.
Duration: 4 mins 50 seconds
Letting Light Through: Part 2
Using cheap plastic rulers is a fun way to let colored light through to your subject.
Duration: 3 mins 47 seconds
Putting These Techniques Together
Mary has demonstrated a variety of lighting techniques so far, and discusses how you can combine these techniques together in one shot.
Duration: 7 mins 18 seconds
Conclusion
Mary wraps up the class with some closing thoughts to help you move forward.
Duration: 1 mins 5 seconds