Welcome back to The Breakdown.
My name is Miguel Quiles, and I'm in the studio
today shooting some portraits. And I
wanted to walk you through my setup of
basically what I'm using to take these
shots. So let's begin!
First with the camera that we're using
using the Sony a7RIII to shoot these
portraits today.
Full-frame 42 MP, shooting these
close-up beauty shots, so I want a lot of
detail. A lot of resolution, so I have to
pick a very specific lens to be able to
do this, and so what I did was I picked
up the new Sigma 105 mm f/ 1.5
art series lens, and I'm going to
be taking all of these shots with this
particular lens. Pairing it up because
this is a Canon mount lens, so this is
actually one that's meant to be used on
a Canon body but Sigma makes an adapter
called the MC-11. So what I'm doing is
I'm using the MC-11 to use this Canon
mount lens on my a7rII. The cool thing is
I get continuous autofocus. I get eye
autofocus ,which is what I'm going to use to
take these Beauty shots today. So
everything is all basically tuned, to be
able to work with my camera body. What
I'm going to do for my lighting, I'm
going to keep everything very simple. We
have a ProFoto 5 foot octa on the
front side of the octa. I have a grid and
the idea is that with this grid. I want
to be able to control the light. As I'm
shooting these portraits. I don't want
the light to spread, and go all over the
place. I really want the beam of light to
be very controlled, and very direct. In
order to control the light a little bit
better I'm using these black V flats,
which I've had people ask me in prior
videos, where I got these from.
I basically made them.
You can go to an art
supply store and you could
basically buy these panels
you get some gaff tape,
which is available at the store, and you
basically can gaff tape these things
together. So I have a black panel on one
side, a black panel on the other, and
again this is just to really help to
control some of the light. So you'll have
two light coming through this way some
of it is going to get absorbed by the black
V flats that are on each side. Then of
course we have a savage background
here in the in the back. So I want to get
a very nice very even light on this
portrait that we're taking, and so we're
going to go ahead, and we're going to get started.
we're going to light these shots.
I'm going to use a Sekonic light meter,
the L858 D to give me an exposure
reading. Then we're going to go off and
start shooting. So let's
get started.
Before we get started, let's
talk about how we're going to dial in our
settings for these shots. So like I
mentioned, we're using this 5-foot
Profoto Octa, with the grid. It's got a
Profoto D2 as our light, and what we're
going to do to get our camera settings.
I'm using this Sekonic L858 light meter and
I have an idea of where I want these
shots to be, in terms of aperture. Looking
to get in an f/3.5 even though this is
an f/1.4 lens. I know you're probably
thinking, why not shoot it at f/1.4. Truth
of the matter is, when you're shooting a
very close-up beauty shot, and you shoot
it at f/1.4. Everything is blurry, there's
even a chance that the, I might be out of
focus even, when you're using technology
like eye-autofocus, and the a7RIII, so
it's very important in your portraits to
get the eyes in focus, and I would rather
sacrifice shooting at f/1.4. I'd rather
be a 3.5 where you get a very nice blur,
but you still get everything sharp, and
in focus. So let's figure out and see if
we are getting f/3.5 worth of light from
our light here. So what we're going to do,
is we're going to push the button here
on the side. We're going to put this over
the forehead, and we're going to pop our
light and we're an f/3.6 for our
aperture. It's close enough, there isn't a
f/3.6 setting in the camera, so
we're going to go to f/3.5. Shutter
speed is one 1/1,000th of a second,
and our ISO is 100. So I'm going to dial in
these settings into my camera, and we're
going to start shooting.
All right everybody, so that is how we
shoot these portraits, with the Sigma 105mm lens.
What questions you guys have?
Leave them in the comment section below,
and I will try to get you some answers!
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Bye everyone.