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A Portrait Trio - 1 Jim, 1 Model and 1 Light
Fri, 2008-06-06 07:56 — udijw
Pro Photo Life is a site to adore. Jim features videos, business articles and Lighting and studio techniques and plain fun.
His latest installment is a video showing three basic lighting techniques using just one light. Rembrandt lighting, Butterfly lighting and Edge lighting. All really easy to set up and will give three very distinct and diverse looks. Read on and watch the video.
If you'll watch closely, you'll see that Jim is using his 2 cents concrete reflectors stands for shooting portraits as well as still life. For me it means that they look slick enough to be used in a professional session.
While Jim uses a studio light, his techniques can easily be adopted to a strobe and a shoe mount, just like all of us strobist fans use.
This is also a great opportunity to send everyone to Jim's video gallery - Videos are short simple and packed with useful info.
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Thank you!!!
Oooh thank you!!! This was very helpfull!
Blown highlights
I'm really no expert but form the look of it, you've blown all the highlight of the pictures you took by trying to expose for the dark sides of her face (it's a fairly consistent flaw in those pictures apparently)
Yep, there are a bit blown
But I think that the video is still relevant to see how one can position lights to get different effects. Now, controlign contrast and exposure shuold be "easy".
Thank you!
Very nice informative video!
Thanks
Nice informative videos, and simple and straightforward presentation for newbs like me.
Very cool, I can't wait to try a few of these lighting arrangements.
Thanks for the link.
coming from a photoshop
coming from a photoshop background and wanting to learn all about photography i found this video easy to understand and easy to put to good use
The butterfly lighting
The butterfly lighting looks awesome. I'm not too amazed by the other two, just the butterfly one. And the portrait he got of her with that particular lighting technique was really beautiful, looks really glamorous.
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