Pro Portraits with Constant Light! Tim Kelly Switches and Demos His New Level Up Portrait Studio.
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- čas přidán 12. 06. 2023
- Re-imagine Your Lighting! Level Up Imaging (LVLUP) has added a new twist to constant or "Hot" Lighting. No longer hot, constant light was at first tungsten, then florescent and then the early LED products. They all had their share of deficiencies. Now we finally have cool and powerful LED lights with variable output, and even Bi-Color models which allow for a full range of color temp that is bright enough to fill any studio, and most certainly any soft box or modifier.
I did panel lighting in the early '80's, having learned it from legend, Dean Collins of California. Even using soft boxes for most of my work, I sill incorporate panel reflectors and black panel scrims and gobos with great regularity.
Now we have a complete "pop-up" studio lighting kit from Level Up Imaging. Quite portable, though I've employed it as my primary (permanent) studio set up. As I've been using mine, my recommended kit would include an extra translucent panel for bigger groups and a second continuous main light, another LED light with a fresnel focusing spot / barn doors adapter, mostly used for lighting the background as seen in this session.
If you want to expand your lighting arsenal or start completely fresh and new, Level Up makes it very easy. Read on for more details, but you go to the website and get a nice DISCOUNT from LVLUPIMAGING.com. USE THE CODE: TIM KELLY 10, for a 10% SAVINGS on everything!!
Be sure to watch other videos on the Level Up system too.
This is all I've used in my studio this year and looking forward, nearly every video on my channel will be lit this way! Light is Light, and we can make great images in any light anywhere. but this is the best WYSIWYG system.
TIM"S CURRENT CONFIGURATION (Tim's Kit)
• 48"w Translucent Panel
• 36"w Translucent Panel
• 36"w White Reflector
• 36"w Silver Reflector
Used in this video:
• Nanlite 720 LED / Optional Fresnel w/ barn doors
• Nanlite 300B LED w Fresnel lens and barn doors
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Here are some general descriptions from LVL UP.
LVL Up System
The LVL Up Studio System is everything you need for a one light portraiture setup.
This System is made up of three units: One(1) Diffuser Wall and two(2) Reflector Walls. The System comes in two sizes; Large (60" Diffuser, 48" Reflectors) recommended for in-studio use and Medium (48" Diffuser, 36" Reflectors) for event or on-location use.
LVL Up Floor Guide
The LVL Up System Floor Guide makes setting up a classic portrait as easy as possible. The floor guide is a mat with markings showing where to place the pieces of the system; the Diffuser Wall, Reflectors, Background and your subject.
The Floor Guide comes in two sizes in accordance with the two LVL Up System sizes. Medium - 8'x8' and Large - 8'x10.
Utilizing the Floor Guide can make setup of your high volume and on location shoots very quick and easy, by eliminating the guesswork for your team.
The Floor Guide is a durable felt-topped rubber backed flooring. Easily rolls out for your shoots and roll back up for storage. Please note this product is not recommended with those with Latex sensitivities.
LVL Up Diffuser Wall
The Diffuser Wall is made of translucent material that diffuses light and softens the shadow edge transfer. The Diffuser Wall can be used as a stand alone supplementary tool to create a soft natural light, or it can be used in conjunction with the LVL Up Studio.
Currently the diffuser wall comes in 2 sizes; 48 inches and 60 inches wide with a max height of 90 inches.
LVL Up Reflector
The reflector wall is a stand alone tool with a highly reflective silver side along with a white side for creating a non specular fill. The reflector wall is used in the studio for both a specular separation light along with the white side used for the fill light to the main subject. The reflector wall is a great stand alone reflector that can be used in tight spot locations as either a fill or a main light source. The reflector wall comes in 2 sizes; 36 and 48 inch versions.
LVL Up Background
The LVL Up Background is a retractable background system that requires no additional support to stand alone. The retractable system keeps the background wrinkle and stain free and can be easily changed out for a different background. The background system comes in one 60 inch size.
LVL Up offers 3 background fabric options, but many more options and replacements are available through Background Town. Please follow this link to view and order other Background options in the LVL Up Collection: backgroundtown.com/c/t/281/lv...
Thank you, Tim for a look into constant lighting. I'm sure Laura appreciated the transition from strobes, to constant light. Sometimes strobes can become a distraction, unless your model is use to changing up their pose after each flash. Looking forward to seeing more of your work.
Tim, this is revolutionary! LED studio lighting has come down in price and up in performance and features so that photographers just getting into the portrait game can achieve superior results, especially using the new mirrorless cameras. Your use of backgrounds and spot lighting combined with absolutely engaging poses scripted from years of experience make your channel our GO-TO resource as we develop our portrait skills. Thank you for taking and embracing the challenge offered by this new technology!
Great video Tim thanks for sharing it
You are a master on posing. Always appreciated your unique look in portrait. Regarding shooting with constant light I think is really beautiful intuitive no guessing what you see is what you get.
I will try it on my corporate shooting. Keep on clicking 😊
Correct me please if I was wrong, for the silver panel to be effective kicking the light shouldn't be hit with the raw light not the defused through the translucent?
The difference between men and boys is the price of their toys :-) I'm gonna have to watch this a couple times because it seems like if I use strobes then this would be the same as putting a 4 x 6 soft box in front of the model I'm sure it's not, but it seems like that to me at this point in time I do realize that would take up a whole lot less room to use these and they're probably more efficient. Does this mean that you're putting the Godox Strobes aside for now?
No. Firstly, my case of Godox is perfect for location work, especially mixing it with any kindof ambient.
Next, the panels don't replace all your boxes or modifiers, but the end product is similar to what I usually prefer. In general though, if you're not already getting it - the WYSIWYG is perfect.
The other advantages to constant light are well known .. and with powerful LED light sources, it's a fairly bright, comfortable studio with less blinking! For me, the new videos are SO MUCH BETTER colorwize as both still and video are capturing 5500K. I like it! If I need a beauty dish, I just snap one on my LED main.
One thing you stated in your older lighting videos was that you used your large Larson softbox to evenly light the background. I did not really see that here. Can you clarify this. Thanks.
We do achieve the same result with a second translucent panel (right where the 4x6 was). We point our main LED to feed light to it as well as the keylight. - additionally we have a silver ref avail on the shadow side for that base illumination on the background.
Those not discussed on those terms, starting at 2:50 you can see that we have TWO translucent panels on the left side. One mimics my 3x4 and the back one the 4x6, helping light the background, The silver shown we don't use much. We've been adapting and adjusting. We traded in our lights for the same brand, half the size, half the weight and nearly half the price. We'd had, and this video shows, models that can be battery powered. That's great - but I don't need that. Really rocking it now.
Sorry buddy, sort of lost me when you were shooting iso800 in a studio.
Thanks for watching. I've had a lifetime of shooting the slowest films and lowest ISO possible for max fidelity. Now I've tested and find 200 or 400 is invisible, and 800 has a very low cost.
My lights can be turned up, but for comfort, I've switched from my classic f/9-11 to f/5.6 to 8. Looks just the same.
Hello, we're interested in collaborating with you. How can we get in touch?
I don't do many .. contact me at timkelly@timkellyportraits.com