From the course: Learning Food and Drink Photography
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Best practices for lighting direction
From the course: Learning Food and Drink Photography
Best practices for lighting direction
Now in this chapter, it's all about lighting. In this movie, we are going to explore finding the best direction for our light source. The subject of light direction is quite different from what the quality of light falling on the food will look like, but it's just as important, and the combination of direction and quality will make your photo complete. We've created a special studio environment for this chapter. We have stripped away everything else so that we can just focus on the direction of light and how it will behave on our food subject. Even though we do have some house lights here, we are going to dim them so that we can focus on the photo lighting that we will be working with. So, let's dim the house lights and then let's get started. First thing I am going to do is spin our bulb around and what I'm working with, as far as the light, is a Smith-Victor daylight-balanced bulb, 500 Watt. And this comes in a lighting kit that has two of these kinds of lights, the stands, all for…
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