Hello I'm Urs Recher, hi I'm Karl Taylor and welcome to another how-to video and
Urs, this one's quite a special one, isn't it? It is very special yes and it will be
tricky but I show you what I'd like to do. Talk me through it. All right first of all we
just start here, it's basically just a simple beauty setup which means,
softbox and softbox or a beauty DVD dish the important thing is they are both
equipped with honeycomb grids we've got a grid, another grid on the beauty dish.
Exactly - so the goal is that this soft beauty light hits the face
only but leaves the rest of the body untouched. In shadow here. Exactly so the this
only goes here and the rest of the body in shadow. And that's what the grid is doing.
The grid is stopping the light getting down here - keeping the light direction. Exactly
because a softbox or this beauty dish has a light angled at 180 degrees so
it would illuminate everything so this light just comes out like that and this
comes out even like this and just from their chin upwards. Right, so two lights
only hitting the face, nothing hitting the body. Exactly. What's this thing going on
here? That's a continuous light and that's an LED continuous light. LED
has a big advantage that we can actually, change the color temperature on
So we can, if I reach it, we can have either daylight or tungsten
so five times the 500 Kelvin or what is it? 3002 on the Kelvin. Yeah.
Now, let's explain the reason for this continuous LED light here. Exactly,
I would like to combine the two lights. The nature of continuous light and flash
I use the flashlight to have an absolutely sharp portrait.
Sharp face. Sharp face and all the rest which is let's say that the hair light
and light that we are going to reflect with mirrors there into the body. And with
the jewelry? Exactly. So catching the jewelry and also catching the background
like this. So we'll have movement on this light and movement of the camera
as well. Exactly so this combination of flash-freezing
movement from your camera and a little bit of movement from the model and the
sequins and jewelry should give us a little bit of Hollywood cinematic
sparkle. Exactly that's the idea behind it, you know, that we have the
movement, the more dynamic picture movements either from
the camera or as well if she moves or if she has the wind in her hair you can
actually, see this but I don't want to have a complete blur shot so that's why
the main focus on the eyes of course they have 100% of the sharpness
due to the short flash duration. Now I see two other little accessories in here,
homemade accessories. One is a piece of card over the top of the beauty dish and
one is an ND gel just talk us through that. Exactly, so I'm using a white
background, the white background first of all that what we are going to
reflect here is strong enough if I set up a grey or something then this is
just not strong enough so white background that we get enough light back
but then this light is already too close to the background that even if I have the
grid if I would have it like this it would not hit the background but
it has to be like that so this light of course travels like that goes to the
back which illuminates the background but thanks to the
grids this light is not travelling like this so I don't need it and that's
like for me that's a constant rule in the studio only set up the lights that I
really really need. I need this part of the grid but I don't need
that parts so I covered. Essentially you're blocking the beauty dish from
hitting the background to keep your back dark. It's not needed on her so let's
block it. Okay so what about the ND gel up here I can see this is in the path of
the continuous light coming to the hair. Exactly so she has very bright blonde
hair and this light is quite strong in combination with the quarter of a
second exposure time it would be too strong so the blonde
hair would be completely burnt okay so with the ND filter I just take it down
in intensity. I don't block it completely with a flag so I just reduce
it but it's super small which means the the mirrors left and right get to all
the light to reflect. This part of the hair gets blocked. Exactly, I
don't know if you can see this if I do this - that's what it's doing.
Yeah exactly. Okay that's pretty much it right that's
the theory and now we just have to get it done see put it into practice. Right are
you ready? Let's go! Right so we're ready to go and as I can see here Urs, the only
modeling light you've got on is obviously the LED light at the back yeah
exactly - I mean yes the other two lights are too close to the model so of
course they would be very important I went they were to create some blur yes I
really have to make sure that the only light reaching the face is flashlight
and that the moving light the continuous light is moving the
background and the dark parts of the body but it's right it's only the
continuous lights on. Can I have shoulder down, good, all right, good turn the body
a little bit towards me.
Some great results there Urs - bet you're pleased with those. Yes, with some of
them yeah, of course, every shot is so super, it's very experimenting so every
shot looks completely different so we produced some nonsense as well. There's a
lot of combinations is the continuous light and the flash but when you get
a winner but if you have always have one eye here, one eye on the mirror so
sooner or later you just get the reward from it and we have some amazing shots.
Beautiful look, well done! Okay so I hope you enjoyed
that 'how-to' video and we'll see you on the next one. Yes, looking forward to
this. Goodbye.
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