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6 Light Beauty and Fashion Lighting Setup

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I know it’s extremely trendy right now to say that ‘one light is all you need’, and although in certain situations this is true, a of the time extra lights will likely look better, or at the very least make your life easier. Now before you rush to the comments section to proclaim the purity […]

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Here’s a cheap and easy way to fake sunlight indoors

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The sunlight on an overcast day is a soft light ideal for photos and videos. And in this video tutorial, George and Kevin of Filmora will teach you how to emulate the look of sunlight when shooting indoors. It takes very little time, it’s a pretty affordable setup, and you can use it for both […]

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Learn these five basic one-light patterns to improve your studio portraits

Three basic tips for using artificial lighting for food photography

How to create a low key boudoir – The Lighting Series #1

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In this chapter of the Lighting Series, we are looking at a simple low-key portrait. Here, the skill lies in precise lighting and the posing of your model. Equipment 1x Striplight 140cm x 30cm on 500Ws Monoblock Black Molton background Setup This setup uses a light source next to or just behind the model. A […]

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How to color backgrounds with light – The Lighting Series #2

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For this picture, we colored the background by using light. What sounds as if it should be straightforward does come with its pitfalls, as you’ll see. We chose cyan as the background color because it complements the model’s blond hair and the bare skin in the picture. Her clothes were therefore neutral in tone: a […]

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How to mimic sunlight in the studio – The Lighting Series #3

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While this picture has kept me busy for a long time; it’s actually pretty easy! The goal was to create a summery picture. But it was December, and we shot inside the studio. Here’s how we did it. Equipment 1x normal reflector with color foil (1/4 CTO) on a 500Ws monoblock 2x Striplight with color foils […]

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How to create a perfectly white background – The Lighting Series #4

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Sometimes, all you want are super-clean pictures against a white background. To achieve this, you can use a softbox for your background, and that’s exactly what we’ve done here. In this picture, the main source of light was a suspended and “boom-armed” octabox. (You can read more about these in Chapter 2 of the Light […]

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The shadow game – the Lighting Series #5

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When you think about image design and lines of sight, it’s easy to overlook light and posing. But it doesn’t have to be hard… Today I will share some primary tips on using posing to create shadow games. Setup This set was super-fast to build. It required a normal reflector for the hard light from the […]

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Lighting a beauty shot – The Lighting Series #6

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This looks simple, but it’s a bit more complex than you think. When you are creating images that are intended for high-end retouching, you need to pay particular attention to creating a defined but actually relatively flat illumination. Setup A beauty shoot can sometimes be very simple; on other occasions, it’s more like product photography. […]

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Face projections – The Lighting Series 07

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Sometimes an experimental idea turns out to be a stunning success. This was something like that. Gear 1x Light Blaster by Spiffy on LED continuous light emitters 1x translucent umbella on 100Ws monoblock 1x black, light-absorbing background Setup The idea for this picture was to draw a kind of height map on the model’s face with shadow […]

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Multiple lights, Multiple colors setup – The Lighting Series #8

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There is one genre of photography that is black and white. There is another genre that is exactly the opposite and it is full of color. Today’s breakdown belongs to the second genre. Gear 3x Striplights with orange gel on a three 500Ws monoblocks 1x 150cm octabox with cyan gel on a 1000Ws monoblock 1x normal […]

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Stylized portrait, right out of camera – The Lighting Series #9

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Some portraits, you just want to be beautiful, not after retouching, but when you’re taking them, right out of the camera. That’s how this one goes. Gear 150cm Octabox on a 1000Ws Monoblock Normal reflector on a 500Ws Monoblock Setup It’s actually not that hard. You don’t always need 27 softboxes, reflectors, and gels. Sometimes, […]

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The Black and White portrait – The Lighting Series #10

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Taking a 180 degrees turn from our color-bursting portrait, here is a very soft black and white portrait and how to build a great setup for it. Gear 1x 90cm Octabox (left open) on a 500Ws monoblock 1x 90cm parabolic umbrella on a 500Ws monoblock Setup In this setup, a parabolic umbrella forms the base. The light […]

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Soft fashion light – The Lighting Series #11

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  Sometimes you want a hard light to make a statement, but sometimes you want a soft light, a light that draws little attention to itself. That was the case with our Model in a Red Dress shoot. Gear 1 180cm parabolic umbrella on a 500Ws monoblock Wind machine 2 hand painted backgrounds 2 bricks […]

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Healthy skin tone – The Lighting Series #12

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The name of this installment is meant to be a joke, but anyone who follows the blog knows that I’m is a little bit color-obsessed. This image is a play on the highly popular orange and teal color scheme, using the complementary contrast between orange and cyan Gear 2x normal reflector on 500Ws monoblocks 1x  […]

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Lighting glossy metallic surfaces is tricky, but here’s how to nail it every time

This is how different softbox placement affects your portraits

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When photographing portraits in a studio, you can create many different looks using only one light. Depending on how you place it and how big it is, a softbox can significantly change the look and mood of your photos. In this video, Jay P Morgan discusses different factors of softbox placement. And when you learn […]

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5 modifiers for photographers on the move

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A little while ago I was teaching one of my lighting workshops and one of the attendees was looking to implement some of the set-ups I was sharing into his workflow. Seems simple enough right? Well it turns out this photographer was a Formula 1 trackside shooter that needed to get portraits of drivers and […]

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Maximising space – A tour of our new not-huge studio

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We moved to our new studio a few months ago and we have been gradually building things as we go. This will be the first of several videos in this series where we will try and give a look at what we tried to accomplish with our studio. Our new studio isn’t big, it is […]

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