so i've got my umbrella which i think i
might need and my soft box which i
probably will need but definitely will
need this some red fabric absolutely
essential for this shoot hello i'm gavin
hoey and you're watching adoramatv
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photographers and today i'm really
excited i'm doing a full length active
portrait right here in my small home
studio and by small it is fairly small
it is 15 feet across of which maybe 12
feet is actual usable space so what's
that about three and a half meters give
or take
in that space i've got to do a full
length portrait plus space above and
below my model and and here's the tricky
bit i've got light it evenly from my
model's eyes to her feet now that will
take some doing but i'll go through all
of the steps in this video now whilst
i'm doing that and setting a few things
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i've got the feeling i've got a cold
coming on so it'll be interesting to see
whether my voice holds up through this
video in the meantime i'm going to set
these lights up let's get a model in
let's get shooting
so to help me out today i've got the
amazing chloe chloe's going to be the
model for this shoot but really we
should start by talking about the lens
because to get a full length portrait in
i really have to use a wide angle lens
and that comes with some consequences
the first one is depth of field i'm
gonna get a big depth of field with a
wide angle lens if you're looking for a
shallow depth of field picture this
isn't the technique for you but in fact
a good depth of field is what i actually
want
next i'm going to get everything in this
shot so things i don't want to be
recorded like the the heaters and the
plug sockets there will be a little bit
of photoshop and we'll get to that at
the end let's just take a test shot here
right now and see what we get okay chloe
i'm going to use my
lens at 12 millimeters which back here
yep that actually works about right
and i get a perfectly fine shot nothing
wrong with that at all
another thing to consider when you're
really close with a wide angle lens to
your subject is the height at which you
work now normally when you're taking a
portrait you'll be roughly the same eye
height as your subject but if you're
doing a full length picture think about
this a little bit differently let me
show you what i mean so if i step back
over here
and i take a full length picture of
chloe framing her up
in the middle of the frame if you have a
look at the walls of my studio you can
see that they're actually converging
slightly and of course that means that
chloe is doing the same thing too
anything closer to your camera will
appear larger and anything further away
like chloe's feet will appear smaller
the solution is actually to get your
camera around about waist height to your
subject now i know that sounds really
weird and not the right thing to do but
trust me it will work so that's what
i've done with my camera i've even put
it on a tripod because once this is
framed up i don't think i'm going to
need to move it too much let's take a
shot like this here we go chloe
and as you can see the wall now looks
vertical and chloe looks exactly as she
should
so now we can sort out the lighting and
this is where it gets interesting
because remember i'm trying to get an
even exposure from the top of chloe all
the way down to her feet so this is my
go-to lighting position i've got my
flashpoint explore 300 in a 70
centimeter softbox it's reasonably close
this is not the best place for the light
let me show you why chloe was going to
take a little test shot here we go
i've already set the exposure so it's
correct for chloe's face
but by the time we get down to her feet
it's about two stops less exposure
thanks to the inverse square law or
light fall off
to get around the inverse square law
light drop off i could move the light
and that will have another bonus because
as i move the light further away so the
spread of light will increase and it'll
reach both chloe's feet and her head
with the same light so this must be an
easy fix just grab your light and walk
it backwards
all the way back to the other side of
the room like that
okay well let's take this shot and see
how it looks here we go chloe
and although that has worked we have
more even light on chloe we've lost the
softness of the shadows because lights
that are further away well they appear
smaller and therefore the shadows appear
much harder
this is a much bigger modifier it's
actually an umbrella and it is a 60-inch
wing-like parabolic umbrella and this is
going to be a great option for the light
i could just bounce the light off the
white walls of this studio but not
everybody has one of those so this is a
great alternative the larger light
source means that i can put this further
away and not get such hard edge shadows
and of course that gives me the spread
of light that's going to give me even
exposure right the way across chloe
where to put it well right in front of
the camera not going to be the best
place it'll give very flat lighting so
i'm actually going to put it sort of
right here in front of you
and that gives us nice even lighting all
the way across chloe and those shadows
on the wall i actually think are going
to work really well
okay if everybody's ready let's take
some shots
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this is one of those shoots where i'm
really glad i'm shooting tethered
because chloe can see the images on a
big screen she can work out what works
what doesn't work and adapt her poses as
needed
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i don't think we're going to beat that i
think we should probably stop there
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healing and cloning things like plug
sockets off the wall is really
straightforward when you have a nice
plain wall but what if you want to do
something a bit more complicated what if
i wanted to increase the size of the
wall over to the left hand side now i
could easily clone in the world healing
the the skirting board but the
perspective of the floor that's much
harder to match now anything you're
going to do like this always do it on
its own separate layer let's go to
filter
vanishing point
the art with this tool is to try and
find your perspective so i'm going to
use the
uh here we go create a plain tool and
click where i can see a definite line in
the floor something like that and then
well i can see another line coming down
here which should probably end up about
there so there we go that's going to be
my plane now if you get a blue rectangle
that means you've got it absolutely fine
yellow not so good red means you really
need to do it again so that's pretty
good i need to zoom out and stretch this
across using the middle handle always
use the middle one so you don't deform
your little grid and i think we're
pretty much okay and that's the hard bit
done you've created a plane now all you
do is use the clone stamp tool or the
healing brush you can use either by
changing it there and just
what you would normally do so i'll
sample from up here somewhere and then
i'm just gonna paint in
healing cloning right there there we go
and you'll notice how it maintains
the perspective it kind of works it out
for you it's really clever
there you go that's that little bit done
now once i've done that i might just go
over with the healing brush version of
the same tool just to create new looking
floorboards and i don't have any obvious
blends that way there we go that looks
pretty good and i'm kind of happy with
that so i'm going to click ok
and now what i need to do is to extend
the skirting board and clone in the wall
and there you go there's my final
picture completed
so guess what i was absolutely right i
really did have a cold coming on but i'm
fine now
the actual photos came out really well
and that's down to several things the
flash allowed me to freeze the movement
get those sharp shots of chloe in action
the size of the umbrella gave me soft
light and the fact that i could get it
far enough away gave me the spread of
light to give me even illumination on a
full length shot from chloe from her
head to her feet now if you've got any
questions or you've just enjoyed this
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