In this episode of The Breakdown
I'm going to show you how you can use
one small light source to bounce it off of a
wall and create a much bigger softer
light source.
Welcome back to The Breakdown.
I'm Miguel Quiles and I'm here
in the studio today and I want to show
you a really nice simple setup to be
able to create a big soft light source
using one small light source which is
just a light with barndoors.
So let's go ahead
and talk about our setup here,
I have a Profoto B2 and in order to be
able to shape the light a little bit
I've added the OCF Barndoors.
The idea with these barndoors is that it's
going to help to eliminate some of the
glare, or the flare actually, that's
coming into the lens.
It's also going to keep the light
off of her hair.
We're trying to control the light a little bit,
so we're doing it with the barndoors.
We have it aimed at this
white backdrop from Savage.
It's just a white seamless paper
and this is going
to act as our big huge softbox.
So we have the light pointed at the backdrop.
It's going to hit this background and
it's going to reflect back and give this
beautiful light to our model Kat,
who you've seen in our last few episodes.
For the background we're using a
Savage collapsible backdrop.
If you've seen my episodes before
you know I love using these backdrops.
They really give a
nice "fashion" look to these images.
So that's our setup for the lighting.
It's really simple: Profoto B2 bounced into
this white seamless paper and then
that's bouncing back to fill in the
shadows on her face.
So let's talk about
the camera setup really briefly.
I have the Sony a7R II and I paired this up
with the Sony 55mm f/1.8 lens
and this is a really fantastic
combo, especially for a setup like this
where we're shooting with not a lot of
space. We're within arm's reach of
one another.
Having the 55mm lens helps me
to be this close but still get the
framing the way that I want it to be.
I'm using the Profoto Air Remote for Sony
to trigger the B2 and I could actually
control the power directly from the
remote which is very handy.
Now for the reflector here I'm using a silver
reflector.
You've seen me use this in many episodes.
I have various shapes and sizes.
I like using this particular one because
it's got a handle.
There's a couple of
different brands that make it where they
have handles on them.
I would definitely
suggest getting one of those because it
makes it easy when you're trying to hold
a camera and shoot at the same time.
This will help you to be able to do that.
That's our setup here for our lighting,
or rather for our camera settings.
Let's take a look here
and see what we have dialed in.
So I'm going to be shooting these at an
f/6.3, 1/160th/sec, ISO 125.
These are the
settings that will give us the
exposure that I'm looking to capture.
So let's go ahead and take some shots
and let's see how these come out.
The reflector gives this really nice
little light in her eyes.
All right so there you have it.
A really easy way to use one single light with
barndoors bounced off of this paper
to create this big, gorgeous, beautiful light.
Hopefully you guys enjoyed this.
If you guys have any questions
make sure you leave it in
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next episode.