Fundamentals of Photography
John Greengo
Learn To Read And Shape The Light Around You
Decipher the complexities of light. From working with studio lights to using modifiers, Lindsay Adler helps photographers develop the ability to see and shape light. By the end of this class, you'll be able to look at any image and determine how to recreate the lighting in your own work.
Using clues like catchlights and shadows, Lindsay demystifies photography lighting setups. Learn how to create classic lighting setups, from a single light to multi-light setups. Build the skills to be able to recreate the light from any shot you see—and the ability to design your own creative lighting system. Work with studio strobes, light modifiers, window light, and natural light outdoors.
Stop fearing studio lighting and start using your light kit to design create powerful portraits.
Fashion photographer Lindsay Adler is one of the most respected photographers of the genre, known for a clean yet bold style. The New-York-City-based photographer has work in some of the most prestigious magazines, including Marie Claire, Elle, InStyle, Noise, Essence and more. The Canon Explorer of Light shares her knowledge on digital cameras, posing, light and more with other photographers through speaking engagements, books, classes, and workshops.
As relevant as ever, a treasure trove of lighting information.
Loved this class, great insights into how to interpret light in photos.....just wondering if the creative studio lighting guide - five free set ups is still available in 2024.
Man I love Lindsay, she is such a great teacher and photographer. I think I learned more from this than I did in my photography class. Thank you Lindsay keep up the good work.
Outstanding course. Lindsay is a great teacher. No fluff or fill. All learning content.
Lindsay is not only a fabulous photographer, but also a great trainer. She is natural, engaging, informative and knowledgeable. This course is fast paced but you still everything you would expect, and a bit more. I hope I get to be at least nearly as good as her when life gets back to normal and I can find people to photograph. Thank you Lindsay.
That was an amazing class! By the end, lighting will have no secret for you.
This is such a great class. Her descriptions and explanations are excellent. I learned so much by listening carefully to everything she said and it has improved my knowledge a ton!
Lindsay, you're an absolute genius!! Such a terrific teacher. You are so talented- not only as an out-of-this-world exceptional photographer, but also as a person who clearly is so passionate about her craft and has that very rare ability to teach your art in such a unique and structured manner! I have learned so much from you previous courses too, Lighting Bootcamp 101, I think was one of them. I look forward to more of your tutorials. On a side note- John in the background is such a stand-up guy! I love the rapport you have with him. I've seen him in on a few Creative Live courses now and he's a kind of guy I just want sit down and have a coffee with, and pick his very informative brain! Such a cool fella!
What a brilliant teaching concept of teaching us how to analyze and understand what other people have done. I really appreciated Lindsay's approach to instruction. An excellent balance of laying out the theory and then highly reinforced with practical examples. The challenge of trying to analyze the light, provide our answers and then see the actual set-up. Really glad that I invested the time and look forward to doing some of her other sessions. Also a great 'spirit' in her sessions. I would only change one thing and that would be using the model's name. Lindsay was always respectful but I'm a firm believer that the 'feelings' change when someone hear's their name. Well done! Now the real work begins!!!
I'm still fairly new to photography, but as I'm developing my own style, being able to decipher what others are doing to create certain types of images is a valuable lesson in itself and should be able to expedite the learning process. Lindsay does an amazing job of breaking down what to look for in photos, and how best to recreate the "magic."
Fantastic course, Lindsay describes the properties of all of the different major modifiers but more importantly tells you how to deconstruct a photo to figure out how it was lit.
Excellent Class. I highly recommend this class.
There is so much information here! While I knew a fair amount of lighting concepts already, I loved how Lindsay systematically went through and compared how even slightly different light placements affect photos. It really helped me to understand more about how light behaves.
Absolutely LOVED this class. It might be my favorite besides the photoshop classes. I learned sooo much. Can't wait to put it to use in the next few days! Well done.
Favorite course I've taken so far. I love the de-construction aspect of figuring out what you like about a photograph, then digging in to understand how they did it. I refer back to this video often!
What a wealth of lighting information, I got more from this tutorial than I did from 4 years of photography school. Completely changed how I examine other photographers' work.
First off I would like to say I ordered the posing classes with Lindsay Adler, and thought those were amazing, and after taking this course I feel my clients have been more happy than ever. She has good ideas, and is very and concise about showing how to execute them. I recently graduated from GTC in 2017 and learned lighting and would have to say this is a more depth version of what I had learned.
very good classes, well structured with very useful and very practical information, well explained examples with many hints how to analyse the scene and light, not for the very beginners though, some basic are necessary to understand many issues
I learned so much from this course. I am beginner-intermediate and when shooting portraits, I often look at my photos and think, "How did it turn out this way?" Now I am much more equipped to figure out how to get what I want. You do not need to be advanced to understand this, Lindsay Adler explains everything in an easy-to-understand way and breaks lighting down very methodically.
This is a great class - Lindsay is very clear, easy to understand, and I like the way she teaches. She goes over the information enough times, and in enough ways, without being repetitive, or dull. The lighting demonstrations are very clear, and easy to understand. I love it that she teaches how to figure out how a photo you see somewhere may have been lit, so you can try something similar - somehow this also helps me remember more about the lights and combinations used, than just watching a lighting video. She helps you see light, not just use lights.
Very good teacher and the content is great! Thank you!
I have taken a couple of Lindsay Adler's classes of light and this one was above and beyond great! I learned so much from this course and will be watching it over and over again. When first starting it, I thought this was way over my head. At the end, I was doing pretty good at determining what type of light and reflectors and catch lights were being used. Thanks so much!
Totally AWESOME course! I have a better understanding and appreciation for lighting. Thank you!
I'm a landscape photographer. I've just started learning more about portrait shooting and this class is amazing. Everything about the light, modifier, the patterns of lights... come to clearly than ever since before. Great class. Highly recommended!
Lindsay does an amazing job of actually teaching how to see and understand light, especially as it relates to modifiers. Her teaching method is very effective, and I'm honestly blown away at how much this class has taught me.
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