Dead Domestika - Julia Robbs - Studio Lighting 101

Learn how to capture unique portraits by exploring different professional studio lighting setups
As the very foundation of portrait photography, lighting allows photographers to capture the beauty and authenticity of real people. By understanding how light and shadows work together, photographer Julia Robbs is able to create striking portraits that remain true to her subjects. Using the best lighting for the story, her photography helps beauty, fashion, and lifestyle brands stay authentic, including Erno Lazlo, Dropbox, Harry’s, Urban Outfitters, Refinery29, Etsy, and Mailchimp.

In this course, Julia teaches her go-to studio lighting techniques for achieving high-quality portraits under any indoor setup, including natural light, beauty shots, and experimenting with filters and gels. Learn how to control lighting to create images that are not only aesthetically beautiful, but which also remain faithful to your story.


Get started by meeting Julia Robbs, a NYC-based commercial photographer and your teacher for this course. Julia begins by telling you about her journey into photography and introduces some projects and people that inspire her work. Take a quick look at how the course is structured and get ready to discover studio lighting!

Learn about the three foundations of lighting for photography: distance, direction, and shape. Lighting is what sets the tone of a photograph, so it’s important to understand how to establish a strong foundation for shooting under any lighting scenario. Discover how Julia conceptualizes a shoot and then puts together a mood board for inspiration. Go through your tools and equipment before learning how to set things up in your studio.

Set up your camera for shooting with Capture One and see how to share images directly with a team. Explore three different studio lighting scenarios. Start with natural light, the first and easiest place to start. Then, see how to set the lighting for a beauty shoot, starting with one light source and adding another to see how it changes the mood. Finally, experiment with a creative lighting setup using some colored gels and filters.

Join Julia as she shows you her steps to take on post-production and editing. She shows you how she makes her selection and the basic adjustments she makes in Adobe Lightroom before making final edits in Photoshop. Finish by seeing how to export your final images in high quality, whether for print or sharing online.


https://www.domestika.org/en/courses/1405-studio-lighting-101

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