In this video, I'll show you how you can
create big beautiful, natural-looking
light, in a very very small space. Welcome
back to The Breakdown.
My name is Miguel Quiles,
I am joined here in the studio
today by Veronica, and we are going to be
shooting in a very small confined space.
I've had a lot of people watching my
videos that have said well.. Miguel, yeah
you could take all these great photos
because you have this big huge studio!
In reality the space isn't that big, but I
saw it as a challenge, so what I did
today was I set up a very kind of a
small shooting space that maybe you may
find yourself in. Or maybe find yourself
in at some point in your career. So what
we did was, we took white V flats, and we
basically made a very small space. Now
the length of this V flat to my wall is
about 8 feet. But from the the background
that we're using right now, it's probably
around 7 ft. So it's about 7 ft from
this white wall, to the pink Savage
background, and then from the left to the
right is probably... let's see, if I extend
across this... is probably like, five and a
half to six ft across. I'm not sure
give or take. So it's a pretty small
space that we're going to be shooting at.
right now, so what I want to do, is I want
to show you how to maximize this space
to not only get really cool-looking
portraits, but to make it look like a big
beautiful soft natural-looking light.
Let's talk about our setup, we're going to
be shooting all of these, with the sony
a6500, and i have it paired with a 50
mm 1.8 lens. if you're looking to
shoot portraits and you want something
that is affordable, whether you're
shooting with Sony, Nikon, Canon, doesn't
matter, they always have a 50 mm
1.8 lens. That is usually really high
quality for the price that you pay. So
I'm using the 50 mm, you can use
it in such a tight space to shoot really
close-up portraits, which is nice. I've
got the Sony Radio Commander, this is
going to be triggering my flash, which
happens to be a Sony HVL-F60 RM. This is
a radio-controlled pocket flash
and we have this on a P,rofoto speedlight
holder, and it's going through a
three-foot octa. Now this is different,
it's kind of a different setup because
obviously when you're using off-camera
flash, you're using modifiers, you usually
have the modifiers pointing at your
model to light them. But we're doing
something a little bit different. Once
you start to understand how light works,
you can figure out ways to make it
better. So rather than having this kind
of as a frontal direct light. What we're
going to do is, we're going to turn this
smaller, it's only a 3-ft light, but
we're going to make it bigger. The way we're
going to do that, we're going to bounce this
light off of this white wall, and we're
going to use this small room to our
advantage because what's going to happen is,
this light is going to bounce all over the
place. It's going to create this big soft
beautiful light. Without further ado
let's just take a look at it. Let's see
how it looks.
All right everybody, so that is how we
shoot in a really small enclosed space. I
would love to know what you guys thought
about this. Leave it in the comments
section below, and let me know if you
have any questions as well while you're
down there. Also while you're here make
sure that you follow Veronica on
Instagram she's got a lot of great
photos there, some of which we did in the
past. We've got some other shoots that
weren't part of a video, but definitely
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The Breakdown, I will see you guys in the
next video! Bye everybody.