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Glamour Lighting Setups
Starring Model Sasha
Vertical Lighting Sandwich
Hey fellow photographer!
In this video, you will learn a lighting setup
which makes the human body looking very artistic.
We will do a light which shows the basic shape of a body,
or the basic shape of a pose,
but it doesn’t show so much detail.
This is often helpful when you
want to shoot posh artistic things.
Today we have got model Sasha
who is a real sports person.
Yeah, she is a real sports person.
Oh….oh….oh…Now I’m afraid. Let’s do a little zen thing
The Zen Thing – My Doctor said it’s good!
Okay, now it is good again.
Alright, so she will do some really artistic poses
on the ground, and jumps and stuff
And we will illuminate it a little bit from the front
with an umbrella, with front umbrella
and we will through much more light
into the background with such back umbrella.
The other side will have the same setup,
one umbrella front, one umbrella to the back
and this will make our light really sing.
So, let’s try that out!
So how do you shoot the scene?
It’s pretty easy.
You use a big white sweep, a big white seamless backdrop.
You use something for the reflection
like a glass plate in the front,
and you position the model
at the back edge of this glass plate,
so that the reflection is pretty much in the front.
Then you compose the actual lighting sandwich,
with a left bun and right bun
and the model sandwiched in the middle.
For that, of course you use speedlights,
two speedlights on each side,
one speedlight pointing to the model’s side
and another speedlight pointing into the background,
throwing a lot of light into the background.
You go with shoot-though umbrellas for all the speedlights.
The camera controls are like this:
I choose f/11, you could choose f/16 or something,
but I wanted to blur the background a little bit
away because it was so dirty.
And this is also the reason
why I choose to overexpose
the back speedlights by 3 f-stops.
I had them on +3.
Usually we would get away with +1
to have a white background really coming out white
and not neutral gray,
but this background, it was so dirty,
so incredibly dirty, that I said,
go to +3, burn it away as good as possible,
then I don’t have to clean it up so much in Photoshop.
Okay, that’s already it,
pretty simple, pretty straight forward.
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Now let’s use a top secret
Hollywood action movie imaging trick.
You are asking your model to jump
right through the center of your lighting sandwich
and then there is a secret function
in Hollywood, uh, in Photoshop,
in Edit > Transform > Rotate 90 Degrees.
Boom!
Now she is falling into, uh… into nowhere.
You add a little bit gradient to the background.
Now she is falling into the light.
Ain’t that a bit spectacular?
Just keep it between the two of us.
Don’t tell anybody that you know it
and we have ever did it, all right?
Alright, so this worked very well.
I think the big take-away, two big take-aways are
Point A: When you reverse the lighting context,
when you put your subject into shade
and the background into light,
it grabs the viewers’ attention.
And the other big take-away is,
if you are silhouetting your subject,
you communicate the shape,
rather than some detail.
Alright, I hope this is helpful
and you can use it and hope to see you in next video.
Good light!
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