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Heather - Poster Shoot - February 9, 2009
Started February 9, 2009 @ 5:35pm by Kel
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| Heather - Poster Shoot - February 9, 2009 | February 9, 2009 @ 5:35pm | In this Art of Lighting video tutorial Bryan Allen walks you through a location poster shoot for a commercial client. Bryan talks about the conceptual process for the shoot and shows the role that working with a clip file played in the creating the final shot. Bryan shows you his scouting shots of the location and walks you through his process of pre-visualizing the best camera angle, pose for the model, lens choice and lighting to get the most out of the location. Bryan shows you his lighting set up in detail and shows you how he worked with a combination of daylight ambient fill, small flash units bounced off of reflectors, and big studio strobes to achieve his final lighting design.
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Tim
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| February 9, 2009 @ 7:40pm | Great discussion on the process and lighting. It became clear how much thought needs to go into setting up the lighting for one of these shots. Thanks for walking us through the creative process. Thanks Bryan!
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Jonas Subvert
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| Very Cool! | February 10, 2009 @ 3:53am | I love the new Art Of Lighting videos, super cool. Thanks also for the discussion about using Lens Baby on location work. I wanted too order this lens before just for this need. But some at the Strobist Flickr forum said it was not a good idea. Now I use medium format film camera to get very low DOF with lighting setup, but I will concider the Lens baby again:) Very inspiring video, thanks!
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Usha
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| Very Nice video Bryan | February 10, 2009 @ 8:10am | Hi Bryan,
I enjoyed listening to this video a lot. the image to image thought process and the lighting description was very helpful. Thank you for your continued teaching. Can;t wait for the next one.
Two questions though....if you can clarify:
1. You said you may have used one or two soft boxes outside the trolley to blow out the windows. Is there any way you could have accomplished this by playing with the shutter speed. I seem to recall something like "dragging the shutter" to blow out the background. Would it not have worked as it would blow out the inside too?
2. Did you have to use a Fong dome or some such gadget to reduce the intensity of the light in between the people in the back. When I used flashes so close to people, even at -3...it seems to be too much. How did you get just enough light.
Bryan, I am really learing a lot from the community and now your videos about lighting. Very exciting. Thank you for all your help and teaching.
Usha
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Bryan Allen
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| February 10, 2009 @ 8:40am | Tim and Jonas, thank you for the kind words and feedback.
Usha
1. Yes you can adjust the shutter speed when using strobes to control the amount of ambient light in the exposure and blow out highlights. However, in this case I was using handheld flash units that dont have nearly the power of a studio strobe and was already down to 1/45s to get the balance I wanted inside of the trolly. I still wanted the outside much brighter and warmer like a sunny day (it was actually a flat dull gray day). So using the studio strobes and softboxes outside let me really pump up the relative intensity and warm up the light with a CTO (color temp organge) gel and softbox diffusion.
2. Yes I use Stofen diffusers with my flashes. I also like to insert little pieces of gel into these to balance or alter color temp. I may well have used a cto gel as well. I prefer the Stofens in general over the fong domes because they are less intimidating and imposing to people and not so heavy and unwieldy, particularly when bouncing. They also conveniently hold gels and are smaller and more portable.
I think I'll do a feature at some point that goes itnto more detail on working with on and off-camera flashes and balancing ambient light. In the interim Strobist is filled with information on these techniques. Here are two articles on balancing flash with ambient (Part 1 & Part 2). You should be able to get an attractive balance without overpowering the subject matter relatively easily though. |
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Cindi
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| February 12, 2009 @ 4:58pm | | Very interesting and informative, thank you Bryan for taking the time to tape this video for us. I too wondered about dragging the shutter to blow out the windows. (I try to read the Strobist, but reading about it and actually doing it are two different things!) What was great about this vidcast was I could actually understand most of your lighting description and it was very helpful to hear and see the process as you worked through it. I only have the small off camera strobes so I am looking forward to another lesson on how you use those. I also love the Lensbaby but usually not for portraits, this situation was perfect for that lens. |
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DerStevie
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| Thank you! | February 20, 2009 @ 3:46pm | Hi Bryan!
Finally, I found the time to watch your first two videos and I have to thank you big time for them! I´m just digging deeper into using flashes and combining them with ambient light, so your videos are very appreciated.
And both images are just beautiful!
Now I guess, I´ll start my clip file with your images. 
Stevie
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wirehunt
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| February 12, 2010 @ 7:14am | I'm impressed, these videos are very good and really informative. Thankyou Bryan.
Any idea roughly on what power range you where working in with the small units?
I've read "the thread" It's a given, go for it!!
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