From the course: Advanced Craft Photography
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Crafting moods with light
Creating moods with lighting can give you very different and dramatic effects. Whether you're trying to silhouette an image to show off an unusual shape, and casting long shadows to hint at drama. If you pay attention to the warmth, and direction, and amount of available light, you can create a variety of emotions and moods. Now, on the screen right now we have an image of just a row of little pinwheels that I made out of book pages. I have it set up in bright sunlight, and the overall tone of this photograph is very cheery, it's shot outdoors, it's shot in a lovely setting. But if we took this same craft and shot it in a different location with very different lighting situations, the overall tone and mood of the image would change dramatically. Now, while we've also created this image as a black and white, the overall feeling of the image is much more solemn, much more lonely. And that's becasue of the lighting. Now I shot this craft inside in the low light studio. I did create this…
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Foundations of composition and staging4m 28s
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Foundations of ISO, aperture, and shutter speed3m 1s
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Camera Raw: What? when? why?5m 6s
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How bracketing can save your exposure5m 47s
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Understanding key tones11m 12s
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What is dynamic range?4m 58s
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Reading and understanding histograms6m 3s
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Creating striking images with contrast1m 52s
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Shooting crafts in black and white4m 6s
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Metering light to get it right3m 11s
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Minimizing and maximizing shadows3m 29s
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Getting awesome shots in low-light settings5m 41s
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Crafting moods with light3m 42s
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