Lighting 201

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Lighting 201 provided by CreativeLive is a comprehensive online course, which lasts for 11-12 hours worth of material. Lighting 201 is taught by SLR Lounge and Pye Jirsa. Upon completion of the course, you can receive an e-certificate from CreativeLive. The course is taught in Englishand is $149.00. Visit the course page at CreativeLive for detailed price information.

Overview

  • Lighting 201 builds on the simple foundational tips on effective exposure techniques found in Lighting 101. Lighting 201 comprises 10 hours of education on advanced, off-camera flash lighting over nearly 20 different shoots. You will learn just how much can be achieved with just one inexpensive off-camera light source.

    In this course, Pye Jirsa of SLR Lounge give you tips on how to:

    • Use light manipulation to turn extreme lighting situations like the midday sun or the night sky into stunning background imagery for portraiture.
    • Develop a sense of placement strategy in shoots with complex lighting and limited, portable gear
    • Composite images in post-production to achieve the best possible light
    Lighting 201 will also help you develop fluency in using the right light modifiers for the job, whether they be speed-lights, strobes or main-lights. Lighting 201 also features an in-depth exploration of the mechanics of professional lighting gear and step-by-step walkthroughs of the gear setup for each shoot. 
    Graduate to the next level of exposure mastery with Lighting 301 and Lighting 401 with Pye Jirsa.

Syllabus
    • Chapter 1 Introduction
    • Welcome to Lighting 201!
    • OCF = Anytime/Anyplace
    • Chapter 2 Introduction
    • Wired, Infrared or Radio?
    • “Pocket, Medium, Full Strobe?”
    • Our 3 Favorite Flashes “Pocket Strobes”
    • 4 More Flashes “Pocket Strobes” Worth Looking At
    • Our 2 Favorite Medium Strobes
    • Understanding Radios Part I: Channels & Groups
    • Our 2 Favorite Radio Triggers
    • 5 Simple Steps to Trouble Shooting Radios/OCFs
    • Fantastic ND Filters at Any Price Range
    • Our Favorite “Sticks”
    • Our Favorite Ultra-Portable OCF Light Modifiers
    • 12 Mounting and Must-Have Lighting Accessories
    • Gear Setup - Setting Up a Light Stand or “Stick”
    • Gear Setup - Setting Up a Monopod Light or “Boom Stick”
    • Gear Setup - Setting Up a “Medium Boom Stick”
    • Gear Setup - Setting Up a Manual Flash “Big Boom Stick”
    • Gear Setup - Setting Up a Full Feature Flash “Big Boom Stick”
    • Chapter 3 Introduction
    • 8 Steps to Perfecting Each Scene & Image When Using OCF
    • Over Powering the Sun - Part I
    • Over Powering the Sun - Part II
    • Slow Down! Watch the Details
    • More Power Without The Power
    • Adding to Existing Light - Part I
    • Bare Bulbing with Large Groups
    • Back Lighting to Create Interest
    • Getting Crazy with the “Whip Pan”
    • Chapter 4 Introduction
    • The Flash Modifier You Already Own
    • The Oh-So Powerful Umbrella
    • Large Group Shots with an Umbrella
    • Exposure Balancing via Lightroom
    • Portable Softboxes - Westcott Apollo
    • More Light Control, Just Grid It!
    • Dusk + Modified Pocket Strobes
    • More Power? Medium Strobes FTW!
    • Perfect It In-Camera. Then Photoshop
    • Adding to Existing Light - Part II
    • Adding or Enhancing Light Direction
    • Our Ideal Group Lighting Technique
    • Incorporating Flares with Flash
    • Cutting Light, Grids and GOBOs
    • Chapter 5 Introduction
    • Fog + Flash + Grid = Dramatic Change
    • BYOL! The 3-Light Setup That Only Requires One Light!
    • What About the Fill Light?
    • Backlight + GOBO + Fog = Magic
    • Drawing Attention via Light Shaping
    • Visualizing Lights & Color Shifts
    • Mixing Ambient + Gobo w/ Flash
    • Better Light Can Change Everything!
    • Chapter 6 Introduction
    • Subtle Refinement = Massive Difference
    • Great Light Changes Everything! Part II
    • Manually Triggered RCS + Shutter Drag
    • The Right Power for Each Scene
    • Dodging and Burning via Light In-Camera
    • Subtle Light for Natural Portraits
    • Light Modification & Simple Compositing
    • Expanding Your Photographic Vision