- Hi, this is Jay P. Morgan and today on the Slanted Lens
we're going to do a two-light rimmed key lighting setup combined with great
bokeh to make a romantic image of our young couple.
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- [Jay] Bokeh is a look that you achieve when you open the lens wide open and allow
the background lights to fall so out of focus that they become large light circles
or ovals. It looks best when the lens is wide open. Different lenses can create
different types of bokeh patterns. Most modern lenses have round bokeh in the
middle and gradually changes to ovals on the edge. For my shot today, I want
the background to be entirely bokeh with strobe light on the couple up front.
I'm going to use a double rimmed key lighting set up with a strong fill
as our lighting setup today. So let's get started and see what we can do.
We hung large christmas bulbs in the trees behind the couple to create the bokeh
pattern. I like the large lights because they give off more light and it's easier
to get an exposure. That's how we're going to create our background. My couple are
going to be a long ways away from the light so I have room to use a 200mm lens
and allow the lights to go way out of focus in the background. Here's our
lighting setup with just the bokeh. We're going to add a fill light from the front
to open up the shadows. We're shooting really fast so I'm just going to grab an
LED with a battery. It's an easy way to open up the light in the front. Here's our
fill light. I'll now add a rim from camera left that's going to rim him and key her.
This image isn't terrible right now but it still needs more. I'll add a second rim
key light from the camera right side to rim her and key him. Here's the image with
both the rim key lights working together. I love this look. I think it's really
beautiful. Here are some of the shots on the Tamron 70-200mm lens. I love the
compression on these images. The 200mm lens makes this work. My settings
were two point eight at one-one hundredth of a second and six-forty I.S.O.
I'm going to slowly become wider and wider
on the lens choice and show you what it does to the bokeh and also to the scene.
So we're going to go next to a 70mm lens, the 2470 Tamron but we're going to
shoot at 70mms. So take a look at these images. There's the change in lens. I
don't like the background as much in this shot. I see more of the scene and I don't
get quite as much of the nice bokeh but it's not a bad setup. The settings were
two point eight at one-one hundredth of a second, eight hundred I.S.O. I'm still
going to open up wider. I'm now going,
just for fun, go to the Canon fifty-mm fixed focal length lens and shoot at one
point two aperture at one-one hundredth of a second, one hundred I.S.O.
So now the couple's really nice but the couple needs to be
moved closer to the lights. I'm too far away from the lights with this setup. I
see a lot more of the background but not enough of it to make it interesting. I'm
not in love with this crop. I'm really not but you can see what the bokeh has
done as we've gotten further away from it but if I push them closer to that
background it would make a huge difference. It would look a lot nicer.
We're still heading in this direction of becoming wider and wider. I see more
and more of the background. So I'm going to put the 2470mm Tamron lens back on and
I'm going to go to 35mms. This shows the whole scene including the sky and creates
a really different look. I actually love this look when you see this much
background with people in the foreground but it's just a very different look. My
settings were five point oh at one-thirteenth of a second at eight
hundred I.S.O. The bokeh's almost gone. It's very little bokeh in fact very little
is the word. It is almost no bokeh at all but a great look at balancing your strobe
lights with the Christmas lights with the setting, ambient light.
Our next image has the very same settings but our ambient light had dropped closer
to our Christmas lights and they balanced out better in this shot. So there's a
look at that time frame just a difference of a few minutes.
This was fun to look at different lens lengths and the bokeh that they create or
lack of bokeh that they create. I love the double rim and key light. It's really one
of my favorites. It's great for two people.
It's actually great for interviews.
I hope you've learned as much as I have in this experiment with strobes and bokeh so
keep those cameras rolling and keep on clicking.
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