Hey this is Daniel Norton,
I'm here in my studio in New York City
with Marissa,
and today we're gonna make some portraits,
using one of my favorite modifiers that
I think a lot of people don't use so
often, and it's a lantern.
So this is a lantern from Chimera,
you use them a lot in filmmaking,
kind of to cover wide parts of scenes,
and I've used them before in videos,
kind of as background lights,
but today I'm gonna use it as
like a portrait light, and we use it a
couple of different ways,
so this is basically a giant diffused ball,
kind of like a softbox,
with the light inside, and
I have the Profoto up there, and
essentially I have this mask on the back
because if I'm photographing Marissa on
that side...
why waste all this light right?
So I'm blocking this off, so we'll start
here anyways.
We have the background here,
a single light shot...
let's have you go to your position,
and we'll take a look... so
I've got her here... it's like a
three-quarter shot 85mm lens,
take a shot and see what the explosure
looks like... here we go.
Cool you see how nice and creamy that
light is, lights are up, now there is
fall-off clearly because the lights
above her, so we're getting shape to her
face, everything looks good, look at the way
the lips look with the shadow underneath it,
everything is really nice.
We'll shoot a few like this, get some variety,
here, good, nice, good, wide with the arms.
Looking a little bit there, come in a bit...
Yup there you go, that's it, that's a
little like, that is good, perfect, perfect, perfect.
Now just do some where you do like
cross arms.
I kind of like that, yeah, and
then looking up, good.
So we can see here right how,
nice this is good, creating the shape to
the face now.
This is creating kind of a moody shot,
right, because we've got some good
fall-off.
Need some good kind of beauty
light, and I do have a white floors to
my studio, so it's working really nicely.
However, if you don't have white floors,
you want to be a little bit more even,
you know, and mess with it a little bit.
What we could do is,
we could add a little fill,
and the best way to add a
fill to this I think, is to remove...
right this baffle,
so what's gonna happen is...
lights gonna bounce out this side now,
we're gonna lose a little bit,
but we're gonna basically get it back by
bouncing it in, and what I'm gonna do is
add just some V flat, so you could do it with
regular you know small pieces of foam
core, you can do it a lot of different ways.
I'm in a studio so,
it's easy enough for me to bring these in
and when I have all this light coming over here,
so I'm gonna do this.
This is just a V flats from V flat World,
and we're gonna bring these over,
Kind of bounce this light back in,
there's also a good
protection if the model's gonna come
charging at you.
You can you know you
have some shield here,
so just in case so we're gonna...
I'm gonna take a shot as is,
I may need to bring the power up a
little bit.
We'll take it, we'll take a look,
we'll take a peek, cool so we can
see, can I get a comparable shot..
look at our contrast levels right between here...
in here, now we have nice fills,
this is a flatter light,
but it still has that same mood right?
We have some some some shape
but not so much contrast, lowers the
contrast, that's what our fill light should
do, and again this is just a single light shot,
500 watt second light, think I maybe
about a little bit lessen maybe like a
quarter power or so
on the light basically.
Okay right there, this is nice for this
nice three-quarter shot, yeah just like
that, clearly you could use this.
Even if you want to make like a portrait
like a full-length, full-length would be a
little bit harder because you definitely
have fall off,
but for anything up to about
3/4, I think this is a pretty
good system to work with..
Right, just like that,
and just to show you guys because I
said it... I'll come and make a tighter shot.
See what that looks like...that's
good.... here we go....
let's take a peek...
have a look...
yep nice and simple,
look how beautiful the eyes look,
shape to the face, perfect
we'll shoot a couple like this, and we'll wrap.
Right? Easy as that...
and this is super flattering,
so it's good for a lot of different types of
people... yeah for ugly people like Melissa..
exactly it's definitely okay...
that's good, like that, hold...
mmm good, focusing on the eye here..
right like that...
bring your head up...good,
right there...
that's it good, good, good, one
more... last one, good, fantastic, okay ..
yeah
Not too shabby... not too shabby,
So get this out of the way...
alright so...
there you go, right, single light,
I knew and youguys like single lights,
right, you like single lights,
single lights are great,
really easy, any flash really can go in
this.
This is I think the the large-size
lantern, they make a lot of different ones.
You can look into them, you can also
use if you're on a smaller budget could
use like a paper lantern, and actually I
did a video a while back where I compare
the two.
Yes there's a reason to buy this,
but yes it's not cheap...
so it's a good option if you already have a
softbox, to change things up a little bit.
It's a good option for beauty,
it's a good option for filmmakers as well.
So take a look at lanterns I think, right?
And then you can be cool too, because
everybody uses a softbox right?
You show up at a studio like..
who's using a lantern?
Nobody, so you use that Lantern and
It's like what?...
and then you know, you look cool.
So thanks for watching guys,
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