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Glamour Lighting Setups
Hard Light Ain't Hard Work
Hey fellow photographer how is it going? I’m Michael Zelbel.
The first thing I have to tell you today is a warning.
I have got to warn you: This video - it might *** you off.
I am here with Cousin Emily.
What we will try to do is to rip away your excuses
for not doing the one or the other photo shoot.
The reason why we came up with this is that
a while ago, I showed you a video with cousin Sasha
where we took photos of her in a pretty big studio.
We over exposed the background with a bunch of umbrellas
and speed lights and under exposed the model.
The people seemed to like this photos
but they keep telling me excuses why they don’t
do that sort of photo shoots themselves.
I mean I am doing these videos so that you
can recreate these photo shoots and that you do it
but it seems like my fellow photographers,
they are sticking their head into the sand.
They give me lame excuses like
• I don’t have such a model,
• I don’t have so many umbrellas like you need for that,
• over here we don’t have such a big studio like you had or
• I just don’t know any TV actress with sixpack abs
who can jump like James Bond. Or
• I think that stuff is working in a black and white only,
and you know I am more into color.
I mean cousins all of that is nothing more than BS!
What you need to do is take what you have to your disposal
and organize your next photo shoot,
let us say for next Saturday - that is all it takes.
What we will try in this video is
we want to see what happens if we make a
really, really, really stripped down version of photo shoot.
So what we did is we used our tiny studio.
We have a tiny 9 feet, a white paper backdrop.
Actually we simply could have used a white wall,
but we used a backdrop.
We have set up three speed lights without any light modifies,
without umbrellas, just bare speed lights.
I simply asked my wife to model.
I will not convert the stuff into black and white,
I just leave it in color and see what the outcome is.
I won’t ask her to jump like James Bond, no!
I will ask her to stand around, you know as if
she would be bored to tears – just stand around boring.
Let’s see what the outcome is.
I mean are the photos bad or are they bad ***?
I mean I leave it up to you to decide
decide but if you think they are cool, keep on watching
watching because I will quickly explain the lighting set up.
So we have this white backdrop and the model is standing in the middle.
We have got the three speed lights around the model.
There are 2 speed lights in the back, one in the front there.
They are arranged as a sort of triangle.
The two back speed lights are in group B,
B like “back“ and the front speed light, it is A.
When we have a look at the flash settings it is on ETTL
in this case, and the ratio A to B is 1 to 8
which means pretty much all the light
is coming from the background.
8 parts of the lights from the background and only
one part of the light from the front.
So very little exposure from the front and
I want you to notice that the background speed lights
are zoomed back to 14 millimeters.
I pulled out this diffuser wide angle of flap
so that is the light of those speed lights just scatters everywhere
it goes into the background and it goes into the back of the model,
it is just everywhere but it
doesn’t hit the model too hard or something.
The camera settings are pretty straight forward.
It is 1/200s, f11. I dialed up the ISO to ISO400
just to make the speed lights not working too hard.
So take this set up and if there is anything,
anything that you cannot borrow by simply asking your
facebook buddies or someone,
then replace it with something else.
Or you even go without it.
But in any case, schedule your next photo shoot
and try to make some bad *** photos.
Yeah I mean if I look at that photo, I would say, stretch it, Cousin!
Yes, try to push the envelope, what are you waiting for?
Let me know if that resonates with you.
Let me know if you need this little kick.
Please put a comment under this video and
please come back next Thursday for the next video
and until then I wish you a lot of fun with your photo shoots
and I wish you ... good light.
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