Ghost Light lighting technique and colour treatment (Spanish, Multisub)

Learn to make portraits with creative lighting techniques Ibai Acevedo – Photographer for brands such as Nike, Microsoft, Tous, Evax or Mahou – will help you find your own style when taking pictures through experimentation and the transmission of evocative sensations.

To do this, he will show you step by step his work process when making a portrait playing with an unconventional lighting technique but with many creative possibilities, the phantom light.

Once the photograph is done, Ibai will detail its retouching methodology to achieve a treatment by light and color areas with an oniric aesthetic that wanders between reality and fiction.

What will you learn in this online course? You will begin by getting to know the trajectory of Ibai Acevedo and some of his most outstanding works, then going into the ideas phase and finding out what inspires Ibai when making his photos.

Then Ibai will explain step by step his most representative technique, the phantom light, its possibilities and limits. You will also review the necessary and optional materials when taking pictures and, to better understand the proposed lighting scheme and the treatment by zones, you will be the witness of an Acevedo real shooting in the middle of the forest.

Finally, Ibai will teach you how to edit your photos with some key tricks such as the importance of color, the selection and development in Raw, the work in Photoshop and its final export.

What is this course’s project? The final project will be a portrait using the technique of phantom light. Despite the fact that during the course, Ibai explains its entire process both in the shot and in postproduction, it is not essential to follow the steps to the letter. Once the tools and techniques that can intervene are taught, each student will choose to use them in the way that most interests them and with the means at their disposal.

Who is this online course for? This course is aimed at anyone who wants to expand their creative tools when making a photo. Both for the people who start and for the most advanced. Once the techniques, processes and small tricks are assimilated, each photographer will mark how far to curl the curl.

Requirements and materials To carry out this course, basic knowledge of Digital Photography and Photoshop is necessary.

Regarding the essential materials, you will need a camera, a computer with Camera Raw and Photoshop (or failing that any other RAW developer / editing software), a tripod (or way to leave the camera fixed) and an artificial light source ( flash, focus, flashlight, reflector, etc.)

In addition, as extras, it does not hurt to have a flash separated from the camera (connected wirelessly or by cable sync), a foot of focus or flash attachment and a remote trigger.