Movie-Style Mystery and Beauty. Soft, Warm and Glowing. Bright and Punchy Fashion. Dynamic-Energy Lighting. Precision Lighting. High Key Soft. Soft and Fresh Lighting. Under Glow Lighting. Dramatic and Desirable. On this course you will learn: 10 Easy studio setups with four lights How to use studio lighting Techniques for controlling light in a small studio How to use gels for creative portraiture Full length portrait lighting setups High-key lighting techniques Affordable modifiers for portrait photography Useful equipment for studio photography.
Related Content. Normally in a shoot, I start with setting the main light, but with this shoot I started with the background light. I did this because I wanted to get the gradient feel effect on the background and highlight perfect, and not deal with the effects fro the other lights.
After setting a working space, I set a big black granite tile as the base for the subject to get a nice reflection. I used the first SB for the background — a seamless white paper — with Color Effect gels and stofen omnibounce. This combination gives a nice circular and gradient feel in the background. After getting the background I wanted, I placed a second sb with a shoot thru umbrella Bounced 45 degrees above my subject for the mainlight. Next, I placed 2 studio strobes mounted with softboxes a little bit behind the subject from both left and right to get a bit of the rimlighting.
Here are some setup shots. This was my final setup shot for this shoot. I changed different colored gels from cyan,cto gel, and pink gel to get the colored background I wanted. Here are some final photos shot using different subjects and different gels for the subjects. Seeing the catch lights gives you an idea of where the light was placed and if there was more than one light.
Using one light will work best when you have other ambient light in the photo. Your flash becomes the key light. It is easier to expose for the background when you are adding the light to your model. What to Look For You can easily identify butterfly lighting by the small shadow that appears under the model's nose.
To fill in the shadows a little, you will most likely need a reflector or second flash pointed up. This makes it so the shadows aren't so long on the face. What to Look For In Rembrandt Lighting, you're looking for a small triangle of light that appears on the opposite cheek from where the flash is placed. This is a very common lighting style and will look flattering on almost anyone you try it on. A good rule of thumb when placing lights is to always place the light on the side where the model parts their hair — particularly with female models.
Otherwise, the model's hair will cast a big shadow across their face. What to Look For Headshot lighting is important when shooting on darker backgrounds. Sometimes, the color of the model's hair will blend right in with the shadows and the color of the background. Use a hair light to create an outline around their head and pull them off the background. The way you can recognize this lighting style is when there are visible highlights on the person's hair.
This can be overdone, so be careful and only apply enough light to create the outline. Continue to the next article in this flash photography basics series by clicking the red button below. Continue to page I was going to buy your flash set up that you recommended and I see there is a new item available and wondered if it was better or could replace the receiver for Nikon?
I have a Sony Nex 6 and am so lost but would love to learn off camera flash and have no clue what I am doing! Any help would be wonderful as I have a small budget. I own a Sony Nex-6 and a Sony A I bought the Yongnuo flash and transceiver but never got the transceiver to work.
Apparently the Sony standard hot shoe make it difficult to connect. Not to be confused with the different proprietary hot shoe of Nex-5 and before models that are entirely different to the standard hot-shoe. However, knowing that the Yongnuo is a dumb flash it will respond to any light …. I would first lift up the on-camera built-in- flash, then put on the Yongnuo.
This way the bulit-in flash will not contribute to the final flash power because it points to the ceiling, but act as a very nice trigger for the Yongnuo. I bought the YNTX and find that it would only work some of the time.
On Youtube there are all kinds of suggestions about taking the paint off the hot-shoe, wedging the side of the hotshoe, etc. I find that if you twist the YNTX to the right, there is a higher chance of getting this to work.
These Yongnuo flashes are wonderful. Now I have 5 flashes and a radio transmitter , all for the price of one Nikon or Canon flash. Good luck and happy shooting. Thanks for the light set-up recommendations. My personal favourites are the Butterfly and the Rembrandt. Really cool way to explain lighting setups. I have run a number of lighting courses for my camera club, individuals, small groups and schools.
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