In this episode Gavin Hoey and myself have a friendly competition.
AdoramaTV presents Exploring Photography with Mark Wallace. Everybody welcome to another
episode of Exploring Photography right here on a AdoramaTV brought to you by
Adorama it's the camera store that has everything for photographers like Gavin
Hoey and myself. Yep Gavin is here because we are going to do a kind of
photo challenge, sort of. And so here is what we have decided to do we are in
Gavin's studio anyway, why you up there? Get down there, he's not so tall.
We are in Gavin's studio
I like this much better, and we have decided that we are going to use the
same mode,l yes, the exact same equipment, yes, and we're going to have a time limit of
about 20 minutes. I'm going to shoot the model with the gear and Gavin's not going to
see what I'm doing and then you're going do the exact same thing. Absolutely. Not
going see what you're doing now and then we are going to compare our results. Now
we're doing this because a lot of times people ask me, and I'm sure they ask
you what's there correct way to light model or whatever? And answer is there's
really no perfectly correct way. There's a lot of options and so we want to see
what happens when he tried to do the same thing with the same stuff and see
what happens. But we're going to do that in a second but first we need to
introduce our model, so Ryan, come out here and gosh, now I need a stool. This is
Brian is gonna be our model and we are going to get right to it. So i guess I'm
shooting first. Is that right? I'll go then.Yeah, alright, see you later. We'll only
have so much time about 20 minutes to get this done. So what I've decided to do is keep
things really simple, now I want a really low-key setup that means lots of black
and white imagery, and so that works perfect with Brian, sure he's got this grey
shirt, we've got this grey background. So my key light is this glow octa boxes by
Flashpoint. I have that really close to Brian, that's going to give us that inverse
square law, where light falls off really rapidly that means this side of
his face is going to be really dark. Now I won't want him to fall completely
into darkness because with his dark hair, it's going to blend right back into the background.
To keep things simple, but to prevent that from happening I have this silver
reflector. That's going to bounce some light just subtly on this side of his face,
and sort of separate his hair from the background. Now the other thing, Brian
is really tall, so it's have you stand up really fast check this out he's way too
tall for me to shoot. So this close I'm just shooting right up his nose I don't
like that, so I'm going to have him sit in the stool, so I can sort of shoot down. I
can crouch down, I have all kinds of options and it gives a sort of that relaxed
feel. I'll convert these to black and white and here's what I got.
Well I've already done my shoot. You're going to have to wait and see that, but Mark, tell me about yours, how did
it go? I think it went pretty well, the thing that I did notice, was I haven't been
in the studio for about two years and have been traveling around doing all the
scenic photography, and I really felt that in a way that I didn't expect and so
even though I've been shooting in the studio for 15 plus years, it really was sort
of a surprise of, if you don't practice no matter how much experience, it's something that you
sort of lose. But despite all of that I think that I was able to come out with a
shot that I really like and it's sort of low-key, its relaxed, and I think it
really does a good job of sort of portraying Brian in that sort of European,
English, rainy-day feel. Which is sort of what I like. The one thing I changed though is I
didn't do a black-and-white in
post-production. I decided to just desaturate and a little touch of colour
I think really helps the image, so talking about Brian, I want to thank you Brian. Come on
out here, come out to the studio for a second, and we will put him
between us. Thank you so much Brian for all of your help and don't remember
there is a ton of stuff still coming.
Gavin's video is coming up very soon and so you have to make sure that you watch his
video also make sure you check out all the other stuff we've done about studio
lighting on the Adorama Learning Center and as always don't forget to subscribe to AdoramaTV
so you don't miss anything. Thanks so much, thanks so much for joining us and
I'll see you
next time
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