Hi everybody welcome to another episode
of Exploring Photography right here on
AdoramaTV, I'm Mark Wallace and in this
episode I'm going to take on the
challenge of taking a very non
interesting space. This is just a very small
office space / studio with white walls
and a lot of storage and try to create
something interesting and it's something
that you might want to do in your living
room or garage and the way we're going to
do that is I'm going to shoot two
different things at the same time.
We're going to show motion and freeze motion
all with one shutter click using two
different types of light. Now to show you
how this all works I have sort of this
crew of people helping me out and our
model I want to introduce her to you,
her name is Marelie and I'm saying it
wrong, it's actually, come on out, her name is
Marelie. Is that how you say it? Yes
All right you say it. Marelie. OK that and
we also have some assistance,
so come on out guys, and so they are
actually going to be doing a bunch of
movement back here. So this is Tertius
and this is Maureen and they are going to
be moving this around and how this is
going to work is Marelie is going to be
frozen and back here all this cloth and
stuff is going to be moving and that is
going to show up motion and no motion,
at the same time. Now to explain this I
need to show you what these two special
lights are, how they work, how we can show
and freeze motion using our shutter and
our flash duration. It's a lot of stuff.
So we're going to have Tertius jump on the
camera and he's going to actually be the
cameraman at the same time, so he's going
do that and with a click of my fingers
we're going to start showing you this right now,
and just like that with the power of
editing, Tertius is now behind the camera
and that's important because he needs to
move around so I can show you how this
is set up. Remember we're taking a very
uninteresting space and making it really
interesting. We're doing that with two
different types of light. This right here
is a studio strobe. Studio strobes are
famous because they have short flash
durations which freeze motion. So this is
going to freeze motion in this zone
right here, but over here we have a
normal, always on, constant, tungsten light.
That's used for video and everything but
it's always on and that means that it's
show motion if we have a slow shutter
speed so this zone shows motion.
This zone over here freezes motion because
we have them set up this way we're going
to both freeze and show motion at the same
time, but there's a problem with this, that is
this light over here has a different
color temperature than this light right
here and that's where this comes in. This
is a color temperature correction gel
CTO so that makes this light the same
color temperature as that and so I'm
going to just pop this orange gel in
here so now my 5200 Kelvin light is
now a 3200 Kelvin light and that is
going to fix that problem, except we have
one more little crazy thing in this
studio, that is if we look up, we actually
have a fluorescent light and that
fluorescent light is a totally different
color temperature which means it's going
to give us this bluish color cast on our
white wall, which can actually help us
create some even more interesting
effects in this studio, but right now
it's just going to screw us up and
I need to show you how all this works so
Morelli come on in and we're going to
turn off that. It's just going to be a little bit
dark but that's okay. So Marelie come on
over here, Marelie, Marelie, Marelie
Marelie, Marelie, I can't say the name.
OK what we're going to do here is, we're going
to make sure that she's in the zone
freeze place and I'm going to make sure
to have you come this way just a little
bit, there we go. I'm just metering to make
sure she's in the same place, that she
was when we started.
OK so she is in the first zone and I
want to show you something here just so
you can see how the light is separated
so in this very first zone here I will
focus and just look straight at me.
I'm going to take a picture and you can see
that we have a very plain studio
lighting setup. So we have light coming
from the side but now I want you to take
a step backwards into the other zone
here I'm going to slow down my shutter
speed just a little bit and now you can
see I'm shooting at an 1/8
which is what's required in this
really, really, dark area here and I'll
take a picture and then we have a
totally different setup. So we have two
different areas here. So come ahead and
be in this first zone so you can see that
we've separated the light. Now what I
want you to do is
I want you to move your hands really
quickly in front of your face and so
what I'm doing is I'm shooting still at
an 1/8, iso 200, and at f3.2,
and you're going to move your hands
really, really quickly in front of your
face just like that and I have to turn
on my flash for this to work. OK there
you go perfect, just like that and click,
and you can see that this studio strobe
freezes the motion. Her left hand is a
little bit blurry because it's getting
some spill from the light behind but her
right hand is totally frozen.
Studio strobe freezes motion.
All right go back into the other zone now
Same exact setup, the flashes, take
another step back, a little bit further,
back there you go.
Same exact setup, the flash is still
firing but now she's in the show
motion zone 1/8 there
you go, really fast
click and now you can see that her hands
are totally blurred, so we freeze motion
up here show motion back there but we
have one other thing I can show you and
that is, that light that was messing us up,
this fluorescent light. I'm going to turn
that back on. Now stay right about
there. Now we have a color cast and what
we're going to have you do, is have some
of those really interesting movements,
and now what we have; same kind of thing,
a little bit more movement than that,
there you go, but not in front of your face
just sort of like this. OK great and we have a
different, totally different look. We have
some motion, we have a color cast and its
really interesting. This is where we
start our journey because now we know
that we can freeze and show motion, add
color cast, all kinds of things.
Alright now that we know all this
complicated stuff we need to
put it into practice
we're going to do that but before we do
let me talk about two more things;
the first is the shutter speed that I'm
using. I'm using a shutter speed of 1/8 of
a second. That is going to show any kind
of motion that is coming from are always
on light and then we have our studio
strobe metered at 3.2 and that is going
to fire and freeze any of the other
motion. Now to make sure that we have a
successful freeze on top of our blur
I've turned on something called
the rear curtain sync
or second curtain sync and what
that does is; the shutter opens. If it's
really slow shutter the flash doesn't
fire so we're getting all of this blur.
Bzzz, hair moving back and forth and then
right at the very end
BAM! That flash fires, the shutter closes
and so the things that are frozen are
sort of on top of all the blurs, if
you're a photoshop person it's almost
like putting a layer on top of a blurred
layer. So rear curtain sync, slow shutter
speed we have Marelie in the non blurry
area, except for some spill on your hair,
and so that's going to show up as a blur.
Now that we know all of that stuff we've
got a crazy color cast with our ambient
light going here with a fluorescent,
it's a lot of stuff.
What the heck does it look like?
Well we're going to shoot
and show you that right now.
We're going to try one more thing before
we're done and I'm ripping us off from
one of my favorite movies;
This is red. It is Kielowski movie and you can
see right here we have this really
awesome red background with this model,
and what we want to do is emulate that
here with this red cloth right here. So
we have Maureen, we have Tertius and they're
going to be moving this and when they do
hopefully we're going to get some really
awesome motion blur back here, but we're
still going to freeze everything up here so
let's see if it works we're going to shoot
that right now.
Alright well that was a lot of stuff in
this video and I think between you and
me I like the first set up with the whip
around hair better. It's really, really
cool I could play with this lighting
setup for hours. In fact we did play with
it for hours because it's so much fun.
Remember there's some few things that
are critical to understand to make sure
this works in your studio and so I've
linked to a bunch of other videos
talking about sync speed and slow
shutter speeds, and constant light versus
strobes, and the inverse square law.
Why this light Falls often doesn't affect
the light behind, all kinds of things we
didn't have time to get into in this
episode. So make sure you click those
links and check it out.
Thank you so much for all of your help
today and me mispronouncing your name all
day long so I said merrily, morrily,
morrely. You say your name really fast
so everybody knows what it is. Marelie.
That's how you say it correctly and so
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