David Loftus Photography Masterclass – Lighting PART 1

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and obviously lighting is all-important
if I took the most beautiful dish of
food and put it in direct sunlight it
would look awful now why why does it
look awful the highlights are so bright
the shadows are so dark every single
glisten of food picks up a highlight of
light but what we do is create this sort
of always the quietest lighting
environment possible for that food so
here we are in the muse this is my sort
of ideal space to shoot I have a big
south-facing window which during the
summer can actually be a bit much meal
we’ll put a little sheet over the window
or something to stop the big sunlight
coming through but what we have is a
north-facing light so it never gets
direct sunlight it’s just a very soft
light if the sun is shining strongly
it’ll reflect off the buildings in but
it’s never too harsh and that’s the
important thing and what we’ll do is
regulate the light with diffusion or
reflection either diffuse strong light
or reflect light back into the picture
we can create shadows we can but all
done with daylight and all done with
either a silver surface a white surface
or a black surface flat creating shadow
white creating reflection simple as that
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