Improve Your Photos with Lighting
Lesson 14 from: iPhone Photography & Mobile PhotographyPhilip Ebiner
Improve Your Photos with Lighting
Lesson 14 from: iPhone Photography & Mobile PhotographyPhilip Ebiner
Lessons
Course Introduction
1Welcome to Class
00:50 2Why Are Smartphone Cameras Awesome?
02:10 3The Course Challenge: Capture Your Day in 5 Photos
09:03Camera Basics for Mobile & Smartphone Photography
4Intro to Camera Basics
01:14 5Exposure
03:56 6Focal Length
01:46Depth of Field
02:49 8Lighting
02:04 9Flash
01:15 10Resolution
01:50 11HDR Mode
02:33Mobile & iPhone Photography Basics - 3 Creative Keys to a Great Photo
12Intro to Photography Basics
00:37 13Improve Your Photos with Composition
04:29 14Improve Your Photos with Lighting
03:09 15Improve Your Photos with Story
02:40Let's Practice iPhone Photography! Real World Photography Lessons
16Intro to Our Photo Demonstrations
00:42 17Choosing the Right Lens
04:11 18Composition Practice
03:36 19Composing a Subject in Multiple Ways
05:57 20Long Exposure Practice
06:30 21Panoramic Practice
03:35 22Portrait Practice
09:14 23Getting a Blurrier Background without Portrait Mode
03:50Key Advanced Mobile & iPhone Photography Features
24Intro to Advanced Features
00:23 25Panoramic Mode
02:24 26Portrait Mode
02:16 27Selfie Mode
02:02 28Timelapse Mode
03:31Editing and Apps for Mobile & iPhone Photography
29Intro to Editing Section
00:40 30Storing Your Photos
02:23 31Our Favorite Apps
02:07 32Basic Photo Editing Method
27:52 33Editing with the Lightroom App
04:41 34Editing with the Snapseed App
03:34 35Editing with the VSCO App
04:00Sharing Your Photos
36Intro to Sharing
00:38 37Posting on Social Media
03:32 38Printing Your Photos
03:55Course Conclusion
39Thank You Video
00:49Lesson Info
Improve Your Photos with Lighting
Lighting is the next sort of key element to taking a really great photo where will was talking about composition, you know, more or less how you frame your subject lighting is everything inside your actual frame. You know, the only way that a camera is able to capture an image is by having light. Now how you use that light is where it gets fun because really you're able to create so much emotion and sort of feeling by the lighting that it exists or really just enabling, you know, things to look pretty and and well lit and not thinking too much about the lighting. So there's sort of two key ways that I think it's good to sort of start your lighting experimentations. One is to go out during the day and sort of just sun overhead, see what it looks like to take photos, maybe find some shade under a tree or under an overhang and see how it changes when you have direct sunlight or when you have really soft lighting and more of that shade look uh from there. I recommend going out and in the s...
un during sunrise or during sunset, taking photos and this is a great period of time to take photos because when the sun is up, you have this direct orange light hitting your subject. And once that sun goes behind the horizon, all of a sudden, you just have this really wonderful soft lighting. This will be a great direct example of the difference that direct light versus soft diffuse light can have on your subject. The other way that's really useful to sort of begin this understanding of lighting is to be in your home, turn off all the lights and turn on a single lamp. Now, if you bring that lamp to in front of your subject, they'll be evenly lit, everything's has light, but you'll see that in the background that light falls off and they're in sort of a dark void. Now, if you bring that lamp over to a side, all of a sudden part of their face is lit, but the other side is dark, it creates much more contrast and mood in the image. Now, this is how you create sort of a feeling in the image. And when using uh this type of lighting, you can create, you know, a lot of drama or you can create a sort of softness. And another part you might remember us talking about dynamic range and this was talking about lighting in contrast. Now knowing what your camera is capable of what your smartphone is capable of is going to be a big part of how you use that lighting and how far you can push it. A lot of times I recommend for smartphone photographers to use that more shaded diffused light opposed to that direct sunlight. Now, it's not to say that you can't take great images with that direct sunlight, but it's going to create more contrast and you're gonna want to expose to the highlights opposed to the shadows and a lot of times on smartphones by tapping on the part of your image that is that brighter area you're exposed to that and you'll see the rest of the image get a little bit darker. A lot of times I notice this when taking photos of a sunset, I'll tap on the sun so that the phone exposes to the sun opposed to the surrounding areas. And it creates a much more rich in color image.
Ratings and Reviews
Joanna
Definitely geared to beginners, but the class has a lot of good information. As an advanced camera photographer still trying to get to know my phone camera better, I learned a few things I didn't know (like you can use portrait mode for selfies, what hyper lapse is and the VSCO app). Nice job!
user-d195e3
Good course for everyone starting out and needed to have some more basic info beyond the common snap shot. I had wished for more info on using mobile in the more professional field like when switching from camera to mobile. Additional lenses and flashes and things like that. But this course was obviously not targeted at this. So overall still a nice brush up.
Barbara
Great class. Well organized and clearly presented. Would be very good for beginners and mid level users. highly recommend.