Beauty Lighting 4-4Beauty Photography Lighting TechniquesBlog Post 4 of 4Use my Interfit discount code for an extra 10% off EMERY10
To followup on my Beauty Photography Lighting Workshop at LACP, this is 4 of 4 short and sweet tutorials that I hope you enjoy. These posts will cover use of Interfit Photographic lighting equipment. As you know, I am an Interfit Brand Ambassador. And just a note, as an Ambassador I try out, use, and post about their products, but I am not paid to do so. I stand by their products and love the equipment, as well as the company and the people behind the products. Beauty Post 2: Beauty Lighting w/ Gel Rim-lightBeauty Lighting can have a little play, don't you think? Here we pull out all the stops with an interesting patriotic backdrop from BackdropOutlet, Clamshell lighting, and a blue & green gel on the rim-light. Key-light centered front & above the subject, smaller fill-light below, and a strobe with barn-doors on the rim-light that had two gels sandwiched together. I added the color to the rim-light to give it some cohesion to the backdrop and the blue in the flag.
Lens: Canon 70-200mm f/2.8 L series Settings: ISO:100, 1/180th @ f/4.5 Adding the gel to the the rim-light really made the image pop. Here I make use of 3 Interfit S1 Monolight strobes . Key-light in front is fitted with an Interfit foldable Octabox , fill-light below and front with a Foldable Beauty Dish , and the Rime-Light is an S1 with barn-door set using the included green & blue gels. These S1, 500w HSS AC/DC powered strobes are only $749.99 currently down from $999 a unit, already half the price of the competitors. Use my discount code for an extra 10% off EMERY10 I hope you enjoyed this 4 part series on Beauty Lighting. Be sure to check out my upcoming LIVE WORKSHOPS at the Los Angeles Center of Photography website! Here's some BTS of the set-up
Beauty Lighting 3-4Beauty Photography Lighting TechniquesBlog Post 3 of 4Use my Interfit discount code for an extra 10% off EMERY10
To followup on my Beauty Photography Lighting Workshop at LACP, this is 3 of 4 short and sweet tutorials that I hope you enjoy. These posts will cover use of Interfit Photographic lighting equipment. As you know, I am an Interfit Brand Ambassador. And just a note, as an Ambassador I try out, use, and post about their products, but I am not paid to do so. I stand by their products and love the equipment, as well as the company and the people behind the products. Beauty Post 2: ClamShell Lighting w/ haloClamshell lighting is foolproof beauty lighting 101, and we can make it more interesting by adding a hair-light or even lighting the background to create separation and achieve a halo type effect. One light centered front & above the subject, and a little bounce from a white reflector, so we have some shadow under the chin.. plus a strobe with a 40 degree grid directed at the background. The whole effect with the pose and props, reminds me of a painting.
Lens: Canon 70-200mm f/2.8 L series Settings: ISO:100, 1/125th @ f/5.6 Using a white reflector to bounce the light leaves a little shadow under the chin, which flatters most subjects. Here I make use of 1 Interfit S1 Monolight strobes with a Beauty dish. The background light is an S1 with a 40 degree grid directed at the background. These S1, 500w HSS AC/DC powered strobes are only $749.99 currently down from $999 a unit, already half the price of the competitors. Use my discount code for an extra 10% off EMERY10 Here's some BTS of the set-up
Beauty Lighting 2-4Beauty Photography Lighting TechniquesBlog Post 2 of 4Use my Interfit discount code for an extra 10% off EMERY10
To followup on my Beauty Photography Lighting Workshop at LACP, this is 2 of 4 short and sweet tutorials that I hope you enjoy. These posts will cover use of Interfit Photographic lighting equipment. As you know, I am an Interfit Brand Ambassador. And just a note, as an Ambassador I try out, use, and post about their products, but I am not paid to do so. I stand by their products and love the equipment, as well as the company and the people behind the products. Beauty Post 2: ClamShell Lighting Clamshell lighting is the foolproof beauty lighting 101. One light centered from above the subject and a second light source below. Here we are simply using a reflector.
Lens: Canon 70-200mm f/2.8 L series Settings: ISO:100, 1/180th @ f/5.6 Using a reflector to bounce the light creates fill and still allows for some shadow under the chin, which flatters most subjects. Here I make use of 1 Interfit S1 Monolight strobe with 1 Beauty dish. These S1, 500w HSS AC/DC powered strobes are only $749.99 currently down from $999 a unit, already half the price of the competitors. Use my discount code for an extra 10% off EMERY10 Here's some BTS of the set-up
Beauty Lighting 1-4Beauty Photography Lighting TechniquesBlog Post 1 of 4Use my Interfit discount code for an extra 10% off EMERY10
To follow up on my Beauty Photography Lighting Workshop at LACP, this is 1 of 4 short and sweet tutorials that I hope you enjoy. These posts will cover use of Interfit Photographic lighting equipment. As you know, I am an Interfit Brand Ambassador. And just a note, as an Ambassador I try out, use, and post about their products, but I am not paid to do so. I stand by their products and love the equipment, as well as the company and the people behind the products. Beauty Post 1: Triangle of Light Although this is one of the last things we did in the workshop, I want to start with it to wet your whistle. THE TRIANGLE OF LIGHT - This is one of my favorite lighting set-ups to achieve a beauty look with a little pop and amazing catchlights.
Lens: Canon 70-200mm f/2.8 L series Settings: ISO: 100, 1/180th @ f/4.5 This techniques creates even lighting similar to window light, but adds some interest to the eyes. Here I make use of 3 Interfit S1 Monolight strobes with 3 Stripe Foldable Softboxes. These S1, 500w HSS AC/DC powered strobes are only $749.99 currently down from $999 a unit, already half the price of the competitors. Use my discount code for an extra 10% off EMERY10 Here's some BTS of the set-up
Location Lighting with minimal equipment - There's more then one way to skin a catLocation Lighting With Minimal EquipmentThere's More Then One Way to Skin a Cat
Taking lighting equipment on location can seem daunting, but it doesn't have to be. Packing your bag with minimal light-weight equipment can take you from an amateur to a pro with just a little bit of knowhow. Lets start basic and work our way up and compare the differences in use of light sources. Starting with a basic reflector.
On the left, natural light is nice, but to the right we add a silver reflector and the eyes pop, and the fill light on the face is really pretty. This is the new 20"x40" Rogue 2-in-1 Super Soft Silver Reflector by ExpoImaging that has a great rectangular shape creating a fantastic catchlight in the lower part of the eyes.
Next we tried the gold reflector. Here you can see you need to be a little careful not over doing it, because it kind of creates that flashlight-under-the-chin effect, and is not always flattering.
Notice in both the above samples, the background, hotter parts of the image, where there is brighter lit areas, it's over exposed. Without a stronger light sources, it's rather hard to expose for the background and light the front of the subject to match. For example if I expose for the background light, it looks like this darker image below left, with the subject in shadow. But if I add a stronger light source, we can get a more even playing field.
Adding a stronger light source makes it so we can better light our subject and match some of the brighter background light. During my Introduction to Location Lighting Workshop for the Los Angeles Center of Photography (LACP) we worked through these different option. The above example is a Canon TTL flash with the Rogue FlashBender 2 XL Pro that is like a mini soft-box for your flash, triggered by a radio slave. Next we upped our game with the Interfit Photographic Strobie Pro Flash 360ws, with a foldable beauty dish. Now we are talking! check out the different in the quality of light below. With each step the photo looks even better.
Lets look at the set-up. We used an Interfit Strobie Speedlight Bracket - This backet can hold any Bowens® S-mount modifier and you can use any flash unit with it. It's only $39.99.
Now lets take it one more step and add a second Strobie for a hair-light behind our subject. Notice the separation from the background and how pro the images looks.
Lastly, what happens when we don't have this nice shaded area to work with. How can we create our own cover and do some similar lighting on location in direct sunlight. I got you "cover"! Enter the Scrim.
Lets run through this. Same as with direct shade above, we just made our own shade with a scrim (which is a panel with some diffusion cloth. You could use a diffused shower curtain for this.) The first photo above is natural light with the scrim. Below we work through different options to fill in light and offset the background "brighter/hotter" light. Note, our main light source is the sun, which is "diffused" by the scrim.
Next Scrim with reflector.
Next Scrim with Strobie Set-up
I'll leave you with this. The more powerful the light source and the larger you can make the light source (like with a larger soft-box) the better the quality of light. All examples are good, it's really a matter of preference and what you can take with you on location. Special thanks to Patty Lemke for the BTS photos and our model Sheena Graves. And be sure to check out discounts from Interfit Photographic and Rogue below: Interfit Photographic: 10% off use code: EMERY10 Rogue by ExpoImaging: 20% off use code: EMERYLACP through April 30th, 2017 only. More sponsor discounts: Need to try out some gear. Rent from Barrow Lenses, they have everything you need at your doorstep. Barrow Lenses: 10% off go to this link: http://www.shareasale.com/r.cfm?B=604259&U=1424259&M=12808&urllink=
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