Think outside the softbox
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- čas přidán 6. 06. 2016
- The softbox might be the most popular Light Shaping Tools there is. But just because it’s so common doesn’t mean that you can’t be creative with it.
To prove this we asked light shaping guru Andrea Belluso to do four different fashion setups using only softboxes in an out of the box kind of way.
Never one to back down from a challenge, Andrea came up with four unique solutions. He used the softbox as side light, he used the softbox as top light, he used it to create a hard light, and he used it as back light. None of his techniques were ordinary, but all the results were extraordinary.
How did he do it? Watch and learn.
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I find it funny how people say other people's work suck. You can see that he is a top level photographer because he has his own style. People hire styles. Anyone can be a photographer, but very few will stand out
At 6.33 when you see all pics side by side. If a defined style is under exposed to over exposed, then that is his style. Pic 3 is ok...
@@busternineshoes He doesn't have any setting apart style. Access to the wardrobe and acting like a fashion photographer, people will project uniqueness into it.
Nah anybody can be a camera very few can be photographers.
Why does that guy remind me of the Austin Powers in the fashion photography scene? I wouldn't be surprised if he said "Yeah Baby!" or "Oh behave!"
LMAO i was thinking this
First thing I notice, just like in the movies
😂😂😂
Haha thats a good one! 😂 But i think he is just very articulated / communicative or expressive and having the same accent as Austin. A brilliant photographer and a good sales person
hahaha I came to the comment section to see if anyone else thought this. First comment lmao
Andrea is absolutely brilliant with light. It’s wonderful how different these looks are with a few relatively affordable modifiers
Love this video. Andrea’s enthusiasm is amazing.
The explanation of why you are doing everything, and not just the lights but the "theme", is amazing! THANK YOU!
the shots are properly awesome, I need to learn more from this guy!
2nd and the 3rd personal favorite for sure! Really brings out the model, and the image just really POPS! Even tho I'm not a fan of shooting indoors, but if I will have to, I'll try the 2nd and the 3rd method for sure!
I will have to check your videos and website again. Thank you for giving back to community also.
the "thank you got it" at the end validate every clichés about fashion photographers
I love these! Be my mentorrrr. Love the colours, love the textures and contrasts, love the perspectives, love the lightings setups.
Great set! The 2nd one is really spectacular.
I love *detailed* work, experimentation, and shaping of light. Personally I find a lot of use in moving the light source back or forward (and of course finding the PERFECT angle) - or changing to a smaller or larger softbox to harden or soften the light, but as for masking softboxes it's not something I've done before and probably not something I'd spend a lot of time experimenting with. Maybe if I had the gear in a studio one day - and wasn't ridiculously busy with an editing deadline - I would do some comparison tests between a narrow masked light and a non-masked light. Of course, there will be a difference. But I just wonder how much of a difference to warrant keeping various pieces of fabric with velcros compatible with different lightbox sizes in safe places and remembering to take them with me on jobs that I don't lose them etc... or that I would have quite enough creative vision to ever say "yeh - that DEFINITELY needs the narrow mask". The best way I have right now to narrow the shape of the light is to move it nearer the model. Which does, I suppose, make the light softer. Which may not be the desired effect. Anyway, thanks Andrea - this was thought provoking.
i liked the 2nd one.. and I love those mag/gels that just snap right on to the strobe heads.. cool.
Good refresher course on Fashion, and Portrait. Hope to see more in the future. Great work!!
This is awesome work.
Awsome!! I really like the photo with lights from the top.
Hi. Andrea long time no videos. The scheme with the hard light I liked the most. I also love the hard light. Attachment OCF of course you can use with the device D1, just in any case do not turn on the pilot light otherwise it will melt)))
great job! great help and fun to watch!!
I attended a few phase one seminars for fun. Awesome people.
Great stuff !!
also people get caught up in the person being the subject but i think Andrea's goal here was to highlight the clothing for the brand not the model
They missed the whole point
The photos go very well together!
Thank you so much for the very informative and helpful tutorial! Good luck!
its amazing that those that have the most critical comments on how someone should shoot have the least to show or nothing at all to back it up
I know, well, someone once said, the more haters you have, the more successful you are... I base my success not on what others think, or on how much money I make, or what car I drive, but on how happy I am, and I can gladly say that I know I am much happier than any of the haters. And I am also glad for the haters, I would rather be hated than be ignored ;-)
For any of those that have attended any of my hundreds of classes around the world will know that what I am trying to create is a space of collaboration and inspiration in the international photographic community around the world and stop competition among photographers (which does not really exists and it's just a lie). So I realise that there is still a very long way to go to create such a generative community. Not that it matters, there will always be those that prefer to destroy rather than create more for everyone...
Thank you for your support!
The photographer has great people skills. Remind me when I worked with models when younger.
Very cool!
awesome video !
hi, thank you so much for such an interesting video, love your work, im doing a shoot soon requiring a hard light, what size soft box would you recommend, what settings and also what distance? many thanks in advance
Bravissimo Andrea......
beautiful model
Wow, great video!!!
Great job Andrea, you are a real salesman. You have figured out how to make horrible photos sound like they are one of a kind masterpieces.
Everybody produces opinions.....everybody walks up to the microphone & speaks
Exactly!!!!!
well said
nice concept nice idea and so fast :) thx u
Inspiring!
Actually sick stuff 🔥
WOW!!! i wish i had the same gear and space
Great video, any tips for using gels and mini soft box on a speed light and also a small square 96 mini led lights , with either a white or orange differ cap, I could add a gel,sheet to it, I have 2 of those and a speed light, and I'm buying some gels today at some point, so any tips for that set up with a intro dslr camera , with a 50mm f1.4 portrait lens ? I do have a zoom 75-300mm f3.5 and a 18 - 55mm f3.5 lens ? So any tips are welcome for using gels with these lights and flashes at home ? I'm a novice
so good !
Looks great
he was just thinking right inside the box !!!!! I love the soundtrack though!
I love the shots
You know he's a jedi when he doesn't even look at the pictures... "yep I've got it"..🙈. My mortality has been reinforced by this video
(snap snap snap) ... "Got it, thank you", passes his camera back to his assistant ... (Looks in Jedi as the camera pans and zooms slowly towards him)
@@tonypmediaaccuracy 💯🤣🤣🤣
I use the OCF line on my D1, so you can use them if your on a budget.
Andrea Belluso great! thx
wow, love your smply way to approach the shooting.
So happy to see you again!! You are my favorite light instructor! Thank you for sharing your creativity with us.
Very nice, thank you! By the way, who's the model?
I moving more towards hard lights instead of using soft boxes myself too. There is nothing better than a large, hard and even source of light (preferably indirect one) for fashion or glamour types of shoots. The only thing that is needed in this case is a decent MUA for sure :)
Wow, Wow, Wow, Wow, WOOOOOW!
Always the professional
Very nice love it
Fantastic video, love the results!
What is he using to prop up the V-flats? What's the retail name for those?
Great Video
Amazing video
Nice tips!!! Very cool is, that you always use a white background and compose it only with the gel on the light ....Love Profoto Gear!!! Thank's and greetings from Brazil!
kreo k andreas es de italia a pesar k habla english.....ha de ser muy conocido en brasil
Thank You!
thankyou
There's a difference in how something is achieved technically and using that technique to get output creatively. For me, he is technically strong but not creatively
Great work. One question: How you create the different background colors like blueish in the first pic or purple in the other?
you literally shoot a gelled light on the white background in whatever colour you're looking to get
Still the best video. Thanks.
Super happy you love the video, Andrea Belluso did a fantastic job
To be honest none of these pictures are spot on but I know this guy is talented from other videos
Just great. Concise, purposeful, dramatic. I learned a lot can't wait to take this knowledge to my next shoot.
Still my favorite.
I just got some ideas for men project. Well wait to fall to test it due to budget.
the model is walking very close to the strip light back and forth, are you using TTL Mode, or how do you manage the light intensity durng shooting...???
0:37 ...with a hand-held light meter.
Last one is overexposed and If I'm an EIC of a magazine i wouldn't use it. Shadows and highlights create depth and they're not a pain to look at. I'd go for 1 and 2
10 points for talks - 2 points for final results
Top Notch - Excellent as Always!!!!!
Okay you got me in the end
So, you make a softbox a hard light by moving it further away...and removing the diffusing material?
Michael McMullen you make any light a harder light by moving further from the subject. He was demonstrating that even with something designed to soften the light, you can get harder qualities from it. Thinking like this speeds up workflow as you wouldn't have to remove the softbox and put on a reflector to get a similar quality of light.
Gotcha. Thanks for clarifying for me. :)
Study inverse square law helps you to understand hard light and soft light
@@siddology9378 No it really doesn't. Inverse square law is only about the falloff in the AMOUNT of light. Nothing to do with soft vs hard.
Mr. Light Shaper what flash meter did u use to trigger the strobes? I bought two B1 and I can't seem to find a meter that can wirelessly trigger them...
that particular phase has a built-in tax for profoto
trx*
I see, I'd be nice if Profoto would work with Sekonic, so you could first meter and trigger the lights with a meter, (while setting up a shot), instead of having to hold a meter in one hand and and trigger strobes with Profoto Air Remote. I understand that you can start in TTL , switch to manual and adjust, but I guess since you have so much experience you just eyeball it then?
I want know more.
Joshua Samms ask me
Nice
Camera?
This is great for a clothing brand updating their E Commerce site every once a while or trice a year.
must be good, even Ana Shortspin is in the background.
yeah！beautiful！okay！thank you！
what camera and lens is he using there?
Too much expensive for you ahah. It's a Phase One IQ3 with a 75-150 mm Schneider lens. About 48,000$ for the kit...
Andrea Belluso👏
Really shows how the subject matters. You'd never want hard light on a woman because of wrinkles, but since he's doing fashion,
a) the women are less likely to have wrinkles
and
b) the clothing is more important and the hard light is better for the clothes, as he says
good sir this is why only young folks are normally the ones in fashion..
Saludos morocha!
what is morosha
If you remove all the diffusion material from a softbox, don't you get the same light as if you used just the bare flash? Since there is nothing between the strobe and the subject, what is supposed to modify the light?
No, because the softbox's silver lining changes the character of the light, as would any reflector/light modifier.
Sort of. It's a very hard light source akin to that of a bare flash but a little different.
The softbox is more directional because of the edges as opposed to bare flash
camera name ? and lens ? wich is type?
Phase one
At first I wasn't convinced either .. also thought "that expensive gear to make THAT photos". But after looking at Andreas website I have to say .. yes he is a professional. You can see that these set of 4 shots are not matching well in the video and therefore they doesn't look good side by side. In fashion photography you are allowed to be unconventional and break the rules. That goes for storytelling as for light settings.
Okay I don't like the last one, for that burned out white light at the models arm, or the first underexposed one. If they stand in that row above, or looking at them separately they doesn't spark - but if I look at the whole set of pics on his website, I like them. That speaks for the editing process and the kind of presentation at the end. In a nutshell ... I think Andrea is a fine photographer - just look behind the curtains or at his website.
the last picture is definitely a bad picture. you can see the part of model's hands and face is completely blown out.
probably his assistant metered the light with his full body over the source of light wich was behind the model, lowering the output on the reflective side or he just said "fuck it, I already have a name, let it be conceptual" ahahhahaha
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How is he is activating the flashes? Is there a built in trigger in the camera?
Andrea is shooting with a Phase One, which has a build in air trigger. You could also trigger the flashes using the Profoto Air Remote or Air Sync.
god i need a phase one !!!!!!!!!
+ken0block They're going kinda cheap now the 645DF+ bodies and digital backs around 10-12k for Phase One digital backs. Really reasonable compared to the latest
In fact, God himself made the phase one!
Brandon Daniels Wouldn't go that far Brandon lol. But it is fun to use. It feels... different from a DSLR. And the viewfinder is to die for.
This guy austin Powers’s that set. Pretty overrated photos for such a huge production. This goes to show anyone can be successful at photography.
I thought the same thing, dudes on the fucking floor acting like has taking some legendary shit.
👍👍👍
It's all about the personality.
Zane Spang anyone can be successful at photography, oh don’t make me laugh.
Didn't like any of these lighting choices. First one was a bit interesting, but evet that looks a bit underexposed.
sure thing...u may nt like but if the peeps who are handing the cash are pleased with it, u go home happy
pixelbasedlifeforms it's a conceptual job, the idea is that you tune it to your taste. The statement needed to be bold to show what he was talking about. Add light, get a secondary soft light in the face of the model in the hard light one or whatever sues your taste. As a long time teacher I support his choose of simplifying the examples yo the bare minimum for them to work
Exactly. Honestly i dont like fashion genre. Probably about 80% of photos in this genre is pure shit. Other 15% are classics like Herb Ritts and last 5% maybe modern creative people.
blackjohnny0 when they hand ya a nice amount of cash for having created what you describe as sht, suddenly it just dont seem like sht no more lmao
Ls Lx sounds to me like you’d be happy creating shit work
andrea could easily pass for a designer....his videos are awesome plus his stuff
Andrea Belluso I agree wth LS LX. Andrea is a powerhouse. I wanna be like him when i grow up yay
Jj Benz lololol me two..
I liked all of them! Plus she's one of the best models that know how to pose!Energy people ,energy!
Wish I had that much money to spend on equipment s. Otherwise I can also move like that.
Hehhehee.....yup
Those gears cost a fortune to own them. ;(
Calvin Do up in northamerica one unit goes for twenty two hundred- the b1,yikes
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i like how he does his works. Amazing talent
Yeah lovely good good beautifull ect ect ect ect Talking to model HAHAHAHA It's all about HIM !!!
sombras
is that hasenblade
Phase one
Is this a joke? it's like the stereotypical attitude of a photographer in a comedic film. "Lovely, yea, beautiful, more more more, stronger, yea...Got IT" lmfao I was expecting to see the photographer hanging from a zip line, or sitting on someones shoulders for different angles. I'm surprised Zoolander wasn't the model!