Studio Portrait Lighting Essentials for Iray

Vladimir Chopine AKA "GeekAtPlay" is a professional studio photographer, who has built lighting setups for hundreds of portrait photoshoots. He also has provided training for many years to professional digital artists all over the world and recognizes lighting to be crucial in creativity.In this video tutorial set, Vladimir introduces the basics of real-world lighting, how it works, and then parallels this with lighting in DAZ Studio using Iray for portrait lighting setups.

He teaches about these principles:

Luminosity and shape
Parallax
Saturation and depth
3D translating to 2D
Gradients and contrast
Hard and soft shadows
Light source types in DAZ
Softbox modifiers
Light panels
Light geometry
This product includes a searchable video set with a duration of just over 1 hour plus a 22 PDF guide on lighting setups for various portrait situations.

This includes a bonus Portrait Lighting workshop (1.5 hours) where a selection of DAZ Studio artists showed:

Types of classic portrait lighting setups
Butterfly/Loop/Rembrandt/Split lighting
Tips on lighting skin for older characters Catchlights
Using colored lighting for portraits
Using reflectors
Re-creating a real-world photography studio for portraits
Side lighting for dramatics
Recommended portrait lighting resources for DAZ Studio artists Three-point lighting
Using lights one at a time