Indoor Lifestyle Photography

Every location provides its own unique challenges, and you need to be able to pick your battles and rise to the occasion. You'll learn how to work with a range of gear-from speedlights to strobes to diffusion panels-to get the kind of killer shots that convey a sense of realism and authenticity. Erik takes you through a series of locations and situations while demonstrating lighting, posing, and composition tips and techniques all along the way.

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Erik Valind

Release Date: 2013-05-08

Lessons

Introduction

<p>Join Erik as he provides an overview of the concepts and techniques covered in this class, and then jumps right into setting up the first location shoot.</p>

Duration: 1 mins 41 seconds

Color Temperature

<p>Erik surveys the available light to determine a plan of action for balancing the color temperature.</p>

Duration: 10 mins 20 seconds

Adding Fill Light

<p>The goal of fill light is to bring up the shadows without drawing attention to itself.</p>

Duration: 13 mins 54 seconds

Using a Grid To Direct the Light

<p>Adding an egg crate grid to the strip light allows for a finer control of the direction of the light.</p>

Duration: 3 mins 52 seconds

Location Change

<p>Erik applies the concepts covered in the first shoot to a location change within the restaurant.</p>

Duration: 9 mins 20 seconds

Inside a Clothing Store

<p>Shooting in most retail stores means dealing with a lot of competing lighting sources. It is your job to come up with strategies to work with what you have.</p>

Duration: 9 mins 18 seconds

Second Store Scene

<p>Moving to the back of the store eliminates the daylight mixing with the scene, but now you have to deal with the existing fluorescent light.</p>

Duration: 11 mins 0 seconds

Lighting a Room to Make it Look Natural

<p>Using more powerful studio strobes allows you to shoot with a smaller aperture to get a wider depth of field. In a lifestyle shoot you want the light to look as natural as possible to convey a sense of authenticity.</p>

Duration: 12 mins 22 seconds

Adding One More Light

<p>To add just a little more sense of realism in this scene Erik adds one more light to simulate light coming from the TV.</p>

Duration: 11 mins 52 seconds

Second Living Room Scene

<p>Working in studio allows you to rearrange the set to completely change the direction you are shooting from and change the perspective of the viewer.</p>

Duration: 13 mins 10 seconds