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Profoto B10x Painting with Light | Inside Fashion and Beauty Photography with Lindsay Adler
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- čas přidán 27. 07. 2024
- Painting with light is an extraordinarily fun photographic technique… it feels like magic as you actually can ‘brush stroke’ your light into the scene. But what is painting with light? This is when you use a long exposure (usually several seconds) and then use a light source to selectively illuminate your shot. This can be achieved with a flashlight, LED penlight, laser, or even the light from your phone!
One of the masters of painting with light is the incredible fashion photographer Paolo Roversi. I am not only in love with his photographic techniques but also the way he selects and styles his beautiful models. This shoot is very much inspired by Roversi, and even though I don’t exactly know how he does his personal beauty techniques, I want to share some fundamentals of painting with light!
1. Eliminate Ambient Light: You need to get rid of any ambient light in the room. Turn off overhead lights, close the window, even turn your laptop away from the subject. Because you will be using very long exposure you need to get rid of any light the could possibly contaminate your shot.
2. Shoot on A Tripod: You will likely be shooting an exposure of several seconds, and you absolutely cannot hand-hold for this technique. Use a strong, stable tripod.
3. Use Manual or Bulb Exposure: To achieve a long exposure you will need to set your camera to manual (and select the length of time) or bulb. Bulb exposure means that as long as you press the trigger the shutter will be open. You can even use a cable release if you want to exposure to be many minutes in length!
For this shoot, I used a Profoto B10x to paint my scene. Why that over a flashlight?
Do you need a $2000 strobe to paint with light? No. You can use a $5 flashlight. I get that? But what is the benefit of using a brighter constant light like the B10X?
The B10x model light is bicolor, so I can adjust the white balance of the constant light to suit the needs of my shoot.
Next, the B10x mode light is VERY bright (30% brighter than the B10). Why does that matter? This is very helpful when shooting long exposures and being able to overpower the ambient light. If there is ambient light in a space and I need to shoot high ISO and wide aperture, then it is likely that even the light from a distant window or even your laptop will register! If, however, I am working with a brighter light source I can shoot at camera settings that allow me to eliminate ambient light (in this example ISO 100, 8 sec, F16).
On my light source, I used a grid to concentrate the light as well as cinefoil is a black tin foil that allows me to control the spread of light. I used a narrow opening in the cinefoil to create tiny brush strobes to selectively light both the subject and background.
Let’s discuss just a few other tips to help you be more successful with your paint with light shots.
A. You’ll need to focus on your subject when there is a light illuminating them. Either turn on the overhead lights or point a flashlight at the subject. Lock focus, and then switch the focus over to manual, and then turn off the lights again. If you try to focus in the dark, it simply won’t work!
B. Make sure you only illuminate each part of your subject with light once. Be careful that you don’t run the light over the face multiple times. If the subject models (which they invariably will), then the shot will be out of focus.
C. Remember this is experimentation! Try varying the distance of your light to the subject. Adjust your motions. Change (narrow/widen) the spread of light. Each time you paint will be a different effect- embrace it!
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Lindsay Adler
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Video: Samuel Bouret
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Makeup: Joanne Gair
Hair: Koji Ichikawa
Styling: Raytell Bridges
Model: Madison
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The model looks like she stepped in from renaissance time! Her makeup is stunning! 😍
Yes, Paolo Roversi is a Photo-Painter of its own....i am an absolute fan of his Art.
Lindsay is the best! Her instruction is clear and concise and her enthusiasm is infectious. I never had much of an interest in portrait photography until I saw her B&H presentation.
thank you for introducing Paolo Roversi! He's one of my top 3 favorite photographers of all time!
Thanks Lindsay for this inspiring video. I totally agree with you what you said about Paolo Roversi. He is an absolute master of photography!!
Did this with film in the 70s and 80s. Very cool technique.
That model is gorgeous. Perfect model for this idea you had. She's really talented in keeping still also lol
Thank you for this tutorial Lindsay! Your tutorials are always helpful and clear!
Great technique. I’ve done it with landscape. You broke it down perfectly
Very nice shots, Ms. Adler!
As to subject moving during long exposures. In the old days we had special stands with arms and clamps to arrest arms, neck, head, etc. I saw Albert Watson still using that in a recent shoot in one of his videos. Of course that leaves no wiggle room.
Great technique and I think the cinefoil made a huge difference in how it all worked out.Thanks for sharing Lindsay!😀👍🇨🇦
Awesome!! One of the best teachers on internet.
Great video and cool images! I've done this drawing things with an LED flashlight, etc., but never tried lighting a scene this way. Really need to give it a "shot". Thanks for the inspiration.
Love your aproach so much! Such a great inspiration ... as always!
The professional are not just the photographer it is also the model! 8 seconds holding in exactly the same pose!
Lindsay you are right about Roversi!!!
Muchas gracias! Estuvo genial la clase de fotografía!.
Thank you for the video Lindsey! Can’t wait to try it out. Saying hello from Binghamton!
simply superb!
Very cool . Yes I remember Paolo Roversi I think he did a campaign like that for Armani or Dior recently
Looks awesome!
Thank you for this tutorial Lindsay! Since i have an olympus camera i can use the so called live-composite mode, which becomes very handy for this kind of taking pictures.
Mind elaborating a bit about that feature? I'm genuinely curious.
New toys are fun aren't they? In the old 4x5 view camera days we used a cheap metal light that you just use a screw in lightbulb, set camera to F22 or up and remove all ambient light and paint away. Great for indoor room shots. This was a good video. It's always fun to experiment.I bet if you added some Fog or Haze that would look cool also.
Thank you very mutch. Difenitly I see Roversi technic in action. Like and folow 8)
This seem so fun.
Awesome!!!!
Yep we've done this with flash lights, easy to light balance them in post. No need for super expensive lights!
Thank you!
Amazing
One small tip: use the timer so you don't have to hurry from pushing the button and start painting.
A great tutorial. Love the backdrop, can you tell us the source
beautiful images, super cool technique! gonna have to try this out sometime with a willing portrait subject. BTW-Q: what is the name of that very small blower your assistant used from a distance on the models hair near the end of the vid?? seemed to really work pretty well (possibly better/stronger than a small fan??)
please if you can find out & answer back ?!!?
Love that backdrop! Why didn't you turn off & then back on the B10x when painting?
Lindsay you have diff pics on your Instagram in his style. Also how would a dark background work with this. I mean black
What is the fan model name? I liked it!!
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Lots of very bright constant light cob lights available today for a few hundred dollars or even a few dollars will work well for this.
Opinions are like a$$hole$... everyone has them... but this was 🔥🔥🔥... not sure how it got any 👎🏾
What would you rate the level of difficulty with this?
Can we still do this even if we don't have a $2,000 strobe?
smh. obviously I said that.
Dont be a hater. Lindsay is sponsored but also she gives you all this info for free.. i have a godox flash that is battery driven so i will use that..
You can use a godox AD strobe and use the modelling lamp. It's dimmable as well.
yeah ill get a flashligh....that light cost $2000 hahha
Yes, by all means, use a light that's purpose is to be a flash not a constant light source and costs over $2300 with tax, to do light painting when a high output flashlight with a gel (if the color balance is off) costs less than $50.
Didn't I mention that? Yes, yes I did.
Do you have a recommendation for a high output flashlight?
Waaaayyyyyyy toooooooo muuuuucccchhhhh talking. Over 9½ minutes before the shooting starts. Not the first person on Adorama TV to do this.
And with some of that talk being about getting rid of ambient light, even mentioned a laptop, you still have a ton of light coming in.
Beautiful results for sure.
She needs to be seen as this is a tutorial.