i'll take you through a three light setup for a dramatic
floral shoot using an awesome backdrop from d backdrop
so
what's up charlie my name is Kweku Ayer and this is ghananie photography our model for today
is mimi what's up mimi i'll include her handle right here so you can check her out on instagram
the backdrop we are using today is a scalloped dark abstract backdrop from the backdrop you
can check their website for the various types of backdrops that they have very very affordable and
they ship worldwide this backdrop is mainly for portraits and it's two by three meters i'm used to
either canvas or seamless paper backdrop but with this backdrop you can just
fold it put it in your bag get to wherever you have to shoot and once you take it out
there are no creases or folds it just comes out nicely so you should check it out as you can see
we have the flies neatly arranged they were done by mimi so we have three lights for this setup
the first one here is the sk 300 mark ii in a strip box and there is one other light here
the godox ad600 bm in this other strip box these two add the finishing they separate our model from
the backdrop they give her their you can call it edge light rim lights however you choose to call
them so they separate our model from the backdrop because this is a dark backdrop and she's also
dark we need something to separate her from it and then also because of the black afro hair we have
to separate hair from the backdrop our key light is the godox ad600 bm in a photobox 105 centimeter
beauty dish i haven't added a grid because i want the light to spread around here the grill will
restrict it but in this case i want it to spread around and as you can see i've feathered it away
from the backdrop because i want the backdrop to maintain its dark color our model is ready
i'm ready you're ready so let's take a test shot okay so let's take our first test shot
and see what we have beautiful this is what we have here so as i was explaining
the rim light on her side and then we have our key light on here this is beautiful i like what
we are getting and you see because i feathered the light we don't have it
spreading on the backdrop so we are good with this let's go ahead and take a few more shots
okay
i'm shooting through capture one so my camera is connected through the tethering cable through my
macbook and we are receiving the images through capture one sometimes you want
to do this especially if you want to see the actual results of what you're shooting if you
don't want to assume from your camera screen you would want to shoot like this i'll have another
tutorial to take you guys through how to shoot through your laptop using capture one okay boom
yeah this is lovely so try tilting a bit your body a bit good
okay
lovely our images are coming out nice so we just add a few varieties to them and we are good to go
okay we'll just delete that now let me take you through my settings we are shooting at f/6.3
and shutter speed of 1/160 and iso 100 i'm using the nikon 85mm and the d750 as usual
all right so i think we've we've had enough with sifting so let's do something you'll come
somewhere here maybe try kneeling go down a bit so yes on the back door don't worry it's all yours so
you can use sideways or facing the camera so with that i'll have to change
the setup a bit to accommodate the new changes
yeah i like that
yeah lovely it is going well yeah like that okay
okay that's good look at it like that awesome hold on let me check something
oh lovely it is going well okay
you've seen the awesome images we got using the three light setup go ahead and try it
and make sure you tag me in your pictures that i post on instagram so i'll check them
out i hope this has been informative for you and i'd like to thank you for watching