Peter Hurley-ish Look On The Cheap With One Strobe And Reflectors
Jul 23, 2013
Udi Tirosh
Udi Tirosh is an entrepreneur, photography inventor, journalist, educator, and writer based in Israel. With over 25 years of experience in the photo-video industry, Udi has built and sold several photography-related brands. Udi has a double degree in mass media communications and computer science.
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A while back we shared a portable setup that mimics Peter Hurley’s square lighting setup.
Now the folks from SLR Lounge created a similar-ish setup using only one studio strobe and 3 5-in-1 reflectors. Pretty cool actually, although not 100% the same thing.
The basic principles are the same as Hurley’s setup – shooting through a square frame of light. Only instead of using 4 kino-flo fixtures, Pye uses an over head strobe as the top light and three reflectors as the remaining three frames. The spill, directionality and intensity of the lights is a bit different, but like any other soft-all-surrounding light the result is very flattering.
Here are some of the resulting images:
For the full instructions and gear list head over to SLR Lounge’s post.
P.S. It kinda got me thinking that I should combine this with this.
Udi Tirosh
Udi Tirosh is an entrepreneur, photography inventor, journalist, educator, and writer based in Israel. With over 25 years of experience in the photo-video industry, Udi has built and sold several photography-related brands. Udi has a double degree in mass media communications and computer science.
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5 responses to “Peter Hurley-ish Look On The Cheap With One Strobe And Reflectors”
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who is Peter Hurley? …this lighting is in books from the 80’s? its just the clamshell. why not just call it that. its really annoying to name lighting setups after photographers when no light setup is original anymore
You’re clueless…
More like a hater