Hi everybody welcome to another episode
of Exploring Photography right here on
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photographers like you and me. Well in
the studio today we have a celebrity
it's Soryian, come on out. Soryian is one
of the top four from Cambodia's next top
models she's one of the top four
finalists and so we are going to shoot
some really awesome stuff in this studio
today. Starting with a single light setup
all the way is something that's a little
bit more complex
but the cool thing is you don't have to
have a superstar in your studio for this
to work it'll make anybody look
fantastic and so I'm excited to work
with you today. Are you ready to get
going? Yes all right, here we go. In this
first lighting setup I'm going to keep
things extremely simple. All I'm using is
a standard head here, this is my Profoto
b2 with no modifiers at all and I've
pointed it at we're normally going to be
using as a backdrop but in this instance
I'm using this as a giant white wall to
bounce the light here it'll become a
diffused and really soft it's going to fly
this way. Wow and then here's Soryian
right here and we have this really cool
background now I don't want this to be
completely in focus and so I am shooting
this at f/2.8 so that will fall a little
bit out of focus and the black and white
will contrast with her black outfit and
hopefully we're going to get some really
cool stuff. So we're going to shoot that
right now.
In this lighting setup we're going to
keep things really simple but we're
really going to control the light, to
have this nice pocket of light and so to
do that on our key light we have a grid
and that's going to make sure that
Soryian is illuminated but nothing
else is, so we have really directional
light, that's just sort of bathing you in
this nice soft light. Now because we have
this light being very controlled and
directional we have two things going on.
Here we have a grid that's keeping light
from going this way but also because of
the inverse square law the light is
falling off rapidly and so this white
background back here, well it's going to
show up pitch-black. There's going to be no
light back here at all, so we need to do
some things or else Soryian’s hair which
is also black, it's just going to look
like it's not even there at all. So we
have this second light over here and
this is a nice strip light so it also
has a very narrow directional beam of
light, so that's going to make sure we
have this really nice strip of light
right here on Soryian’s hair and because
we don't have a grid on this a little
bit of light it's going to spill on this
background, so we have maybe a really,
really dark color but not absolutely
black to have this little pocket of
light here that we can play with and the
results are pretty stunning
so let's shoot that right now.
This lighting setup is all about the
highlights on Soryian’s shoulder and her
hair. What we want to do is have a nice
glow for some Beauty shots, so to do this
we're using four lights; we have a basic
clamshell setup with a beauty dish and a
fill light that's this right here and so
this is giving us a nice even
illumination on Soryian, so let me just
show you how I've metered this, so all I
did here was I metered first my key
light which is this beauty dish and I
made sure to meter that at around f/9 and
so that's exactly what we got. So this is
f/9 then I made sure to dial this in so
it also was consistent and so just
metering up and down and made sure
that we had a nice even illumination at f/9
but that's sort of flat light. We want to
have some glows and kick and so what
we've done here is we've added these two
strip lights with grids. What they're
doing is they're going to add highlights on
Soryian’s shoulders and our hair on our
cheeks and it's going to make her glow
and look beautiful and to do that we don't
want to overpower everything. We just
want to give it a little bit of a pop so
for that what I've done is I've taken my
meter and I've metered toward the light
itself and then I've meted those at f/10
and so that's exactly what we have.
You can fudge this a little bit maybe
f/11 but you can turn these up and down
viewing your images on your computer if
you’re shooting tethered just to sort of dial
it in to taste and so once that is all
set you're ready to shoot and so are you
ready to shoot Saurian? Absolutely we're
going to do that right now
Well that was tons of fun thank you for
being a fantastic model and don't forget
to check out saurians amazing Instagram.
Here it is so you can see exactly where
to go and I put an actual link in the
description of this video so you can see
some of the work that she's done it's
really pretty darn amazing and also
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