Hey this is Daniel Norton,
I'm here in my studio in New York City
with Marissa who is wearing heels today
to make her toes taller...
Yeah,... so we're... I had an idea to do
kind of this kind of dramatic light on
Marisa's face... and I want to use my little
softbox here, but when we did that, we
basically got a bright lit up face, and
then her body right, was completely in
shadow.... and of course I could use a
bigger box, and other things... but it
wouldn't give me the look I want. So to
kind of make this work, I created this
really simple lighting setup and I'll
show you guys, and we'll walk through the
whole thing so again I've got Marissa here...
I have this is the Profoto 1 x 1.3 softbox.
Now this close to her, and at
this angle she's gonna mostly keep her
chin up towards it... cuz the more she tips
her chin down, the more shadow she's
going to get... we will play with it...
but generally speaking the
look... it's gonna be looking up...
then doing this she's gonna basically get
her face lit up, but not the rest of her body.
So look, let me turn the light on, we'll take
a peek okay...
So you guys can see that right?
So basically she's got...
I mean it's kind of moody right?
It looks really nice...
it's a nice clean light on her,
but again it's not really particularly lit
down here... and again using a bigger box
wouldn't give me this nice shadow on her
face that I want. So what I'm gonna do is
add in this box here, which is a 1 x 3
strip... now I've got it more or less at
the same angle,
but there's there's slight differences
here that are probably hard to see in
the video, so I'm gonna basically talk
about it...
This one's actually a little bit further back
this way and this one's actually kind of
pointed this way, because I'm thinking
about what the camera sees...
right... I'm also low here and tilted,
I'm not going to put it right here...
because remember, a softbox spreads so
this actually allows the light to spread
and fill under her neck, without you know
over exposure.
So I've got this one set up again...
really, really simple.
Turn this one on, this is my B group...
so I'm just gonna turn it on,
and we'll take a shot.
I'm going to turn them both on...
clearly ...
and now we can see the bottom half first
lit up, so and what's important here is
that it didn't affect this part, because
that's what I wanted right?
we've got only a little touch of fill under
here, but we still have this nice pattern here,
now if we want her to be even darker on
the neck or whatever, we can just move her.
We've done this before... moved her in and
out depending on.. I could even turn this
light slightly, but turn the light
slightly this way... you know, and we can
use this now, we can tweak it to get it
exactly how we want it, to give us the
look that we're going for.
So yeah a little more shadowy..
so now we've got again nice dark shadow
on the face that we want,
but her body is actually lit up...
and if you look this, this highlight here
which is the neutral, matches up here for
the most part, you know,
the head slightly brighter, which makes
sense, but all of this neutral.. it's the same..
it doesn't appear to be too light sources,
because I have them at the same angle
and I'm working it like that.
So we'll just, we'll have a work through
a few different poses, and we'll see what we get.
you know again this is mostly set up for
hold the chin up... but let's play around
with the chin up, and then down.
We can kind of move it all different
directions, just to see what we like right?
Nice and simple right?
And we'll see what we get...
Yeah, that's actually kind of cool, so go
ahead and do that again with your, with
your, with their head down...
Yeah let's see that...
looks like that's pretty, just like that.
So now what you'll see here guys is..
that again, because of the angle of the
light we've got a lot of shadow,
but because of how we're lighting it up and
the lower legs actually slightly filling
in, and she's getting kind of nice light
on her face either way, so it actually
works out really nicely for us...
so we can work around that,
although it's definitely still gonna
read the best when it's slightly up.
There we go, there it is beautiful, like
that, she's looking off like the
moonlight... focus on her eyes....
there we go - beautiful.
The great thing and also the
bad thing I guess, about it actually...
that's it... look towards me.
In the shadow, you will see this guys ...
About a situation like this, said go turn
your face a little bit more this way...
bring it in towards me a little bit there...
a little bit light in that eye there...
So we can play around and get
different patterns, but really what I want to
say was... the great thing, and the bad
thing about this is...
that it's, it's, it's nice...
and actually fairly easy once you
figure out how to do it, but it's, it's also...
it is the shot.. right?
There's not a lot going on here besides
you know, what we're doing,
and while I love it ...
we're gonna be done with it really quickly,
because there's not much to it,
and one more than the last one,
boom, beautiful, great, alright...
so we've got that, everything looks good ...
she going to stop trying to be taller than
me now...
she's always gonna try to be tall
always been like this...
next she has big boots like this...
wait you guys, see it... - stay
tuned for that one...
so yeah, so that's it guys,
when you're lighting right, don't
always think that just because you want
the light to look like it's one source,
or they want to use a one source light.
Sometimes you have to think beyond what
you'd normally have, you know, even just using a
Strip like this I know some people think they
why don't you just use a strip.
If I use the strip, it would be out like this and
powered the same way.
The middle part of her...
basically her chest area would be
the brightest part of her,
because it would be center of the light,
and we don't want that...
we want her face to be the brightest...
so we're thinking about it.
We're using two different light sources,
creating one bigger light source ...
so I'll put in Marissa's information into the
description so you guys can follow her
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I'll see you next time OnSet.