Photo Deconstruction: Vintage Beauty Photography using a Flag
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- čas přidán 14. 04. 2019
- Join me in exploring my new "Photo Deconstruction" series where I select one of my photographs and share the elements that work together to bring that shot to life. I share inspiration, lighting, behind the scenes images, before/after post-processing and more.
In this video I deconstruct a high contrast black and white beauty image. Many photographers are afraid of hard light, but it can be such a powerful tool especially when creating more vintage-inspired imagery. For this shot I use a bare bulb (no modifier) to create an extremely hard main light. Then, I added a flag (piece of cinefoil) to cast a crisp shadow onto the model’s face.
A second light with a grid is used on the background to create a beautiful gradient and glow of light behind the model, separating her from the background.
Photographer: Lindsay Adler
Makeup: Gilbert Soliz
Hair: Linh Nguyen
Gear:
Canon 5D IV: bhpho.to/2yC74cR
Canon 70-200mm 2.8: bhpho.to/2wOKr7u
2 Profoto D2s: bhpho.to/2FRbOjg
Cinefoil
Profoto 10 Degree Grid: bhpho.to/2KTbUvW
Background:
Savage Storm Grey: bhpho.to/2JktCD0
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Glad this pop up again. Great tips. Thanks for giving back to the Photography Community.
Love the creativity
always, the best
Nice work, Lindsay. Hello from Montana.
Boss Linday!
You are a beautiful lady and a perfect teacher Lindsay .
this series of photo deconstruction is jsut priceless. Thank you so much for these!
Thank you so much!
Fabulous series from a fabulous teacher ! More..more...more..!
I love black and white pictures. VERY inspirational. Will add this to "Projects to try". Great walk-through
Thank you for editing tips, and some of your workflow. This branch out to some accessories for my other photography hobby.
I am glad you have these courses if have a business or personal project coming up. Hope the weather did effect you to much.
Thanks Joseph!
I absolutely love how you explained everything step by step and gave examples !!! I will def take some notes. Please, keep going!
One of my top fav shot
Nice. Love the series!! Thank you for taking the time to do this series.
I love your photo deconstructions and thank you for showing how you flag the light. Hard light is so dramatic!
WOW!!! That is fantastic and your walking thru it is like icing on the cake!!!
Great video I didn't notice the ponytail till you mentioned it great shot keep them videos coming really love your work 👍👍
So much knowledge and passion being shared, thank you so much Lindsay so inspiring!
Perfect !! Thank you Lindsay !!
Wonderful
Thank you for sharing the secrets of this shot! 👌👏 The video is short and provides all necessary details! Great job!
You are my inspiration! It is so important having good photographer with great teaching skills! Great photographer!
Love this! Thanks Lindsay! love it short and simple and super!
Thank you ! Looking forward to these❤️
am going to give this hard light a try
I so love your style! You give me inspiration❤️🙏🏿
This was clear & easy to follow, even for a beginner like me. The models, expressions and editing blend so well together! I don't have the same gear of course but there's always some way I can adapt what you teach to my own work.
I absolutely love your work and thank you for sharing. 😊
Thank you Lindsay, you said at the start that because of the strong shadow you were not so concerned when shooting at f8, but f8 is what has provided the really charming feature of the eyelashes against the background glow. At 2.8 they would have been soft. This is an outstanding tutorial and it will make a difference to how I shoot. 5 Gold stars!!
Thank you Andrew! 😀
That neck job was awesome
Absolutely AMAZING!
Such a big fan! Thanks for taking time to make these videos.
Very good work, beautiful result and very clear instructions, thanks.
Great series (Photo Deconstruction). Thanks for sharing.
Thank you for great demo. Striking image.
Brilliant as always
Lindsay you are a beautiful, gorgeous, creative and intelligent woman. Thank you for sharing. 😍
05:27 onwards: “Everything is clean and on purpose”. That’s a Lindsay Adler trademark. Clean. Controlled. A place for everything and everything in its place. Very organised. Proper preparation is what leads to those clean results 👍🏼
Absolutely awesome! Love the photo and the work to make it :)
So great!
Thank you for this!! As a budding photographer looking to get creative with lighting, this is a godsend
Thanks for another great video.
Very good! Thank you for making and sharing.
You videos are awesome
Thank you!
You are AWESOME!!!
Thanks a lot for your ideas.
Thank You!
Great video, thx! :-) I'm falling in love with hard light recently (the spring sun was soooo perfect for this with the lower angle!), love to experiment with it. And you gave me a lot inspiration with your work, thank you!
Would love to see a good bts video with a hard light fashion line shoot..:-))
Glad you enjoyed it!
No further questions your Honor, thanks :-) 👍👍👍👍👍
lol. xo
great JOB HERO
love your explanations. have bought several tutorials from you, they are really good. thanks for your secrets.
Thank you for your support!
looks like a richard avedon picture. beautiful
great shot!
Super helpful, thanks!
Loving it, thank you !! Maby you can add the exact steps you do in photoshop...I see some liquify there, her face turned into another person :) , her chin is longer etc
But art like U are amazing!!
i enjoy your videos so much and learn a lot....thank you for that and for sharing....greets BM. 🙂
Love it!:))
0:25 a start of a rap song by L.Adler "Hard light, black and white vintage photos... " you are a natural :)
Absolutely loved this deconstruction, the more I watch your videos the more I want to be a part of your workshop :)
lol thank you so much :)
love ur deconstructions
Thank you so much!
Wow! I so have to go try and reconstruct this now. Amazing work!
Ok. Here’s my first attempt. I really like how it came out. Thanks Lindsay!
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I really like how this came out! I think you're definitely on the right track here! 😀💪
thank you soooo sooo much for sharing your knowledge and your beautifuuuuul work with us. this is sooo helpful 😍😍. I am a total beginner and this kind of videos are perfect to learn. Again, I am very grateful 😋😋😘😘😘😘😘 thank you!!!
Glad you found this help, thanks for watching! :)
Fantastic work, as always, Lindsay! Simple, elegant, and incredibly effective.
Awesome video, I'll be stealing that technique, though maybe with a standard reflector with some diffusion
Very interesting. Thank you.
good stuff
Se agradece!
I love these videos, thanks for sharing!
xo you are so welcome!
Fantastic. This helps so much . Thank you (:
The shadow on the bridge of her nose really makes me unease. Being a high contrast photo from my point of view I would have retouch it. Just my humble opinion.Nice work!
The shadows is the whole point of the image
Hey Lindsay! What did you do in photoshop to elongate her neck?
How do you get the silky effect of the skin?
Very nice. But it doesn't work so well this individuals with very dark skin. How would you shoot the exact same photo with a black person?
Actually if you scroll back in my instagram feed aways you'll see this done with darker skin. Basically I add a grid to the background for a lot of separation, and I just know the skin will be a little more 'specular' aka shiny. Totally works though just in a different way. lower key result.
@@lindsayadlerphoto Thank you for responding back, it's greatly appreciated.
@linseyadler shooting barebulb gave me way too much light on the subject. I shoot with a Flashpoint 600B the power was at 1/128 power.
Trying shooting lowest ISO possible and move your light further away. Further away will solve the problem. If not, add ND filter/gel.
@@lindsayadlerphoto wow...I cant believe you replied. Thank you so much. So amazing
Be nice if you explained what a V-flat was and it also wasn't clear why you showed the background light behind thr VFlat? Does it shine through the v-flat? Why was it facing away from the subject in the behjnd the scenes photo? Did you have it behind the subject and thrn reflectibg off rhe v-flat?
It was hard to understsnd the lighting setup as you didn't have a proper lightibg diagram!
Also, why did you use cinefoil, rather than say a black oiece of card. Would they produce the same effect or no?
Hi there, you can check my many CZcams videos that cover V-flats or any of my premium content for in-depth diagrams and bts. For this, I used cinefoil because it has a sharper edge, but thing card board (as long as it was dark and not reflective) would also do the trick. The light behind the V-flat would also allow me to prevent any accidental spill on the subject OR just the v-Flat to flag the light (block) when I want a more defined shadow edge on the background.
Why waste time in post when you can walk into session with clear goals and mind? Never understood this reliance on post and sloppy work approach while on set.
this photo would look good in sepia, also.
I like your videos, i really do but just sometimes i think 'that could have been sorted out at the shoot, light corner area, earrings and ponytail". Sometimes there's too much emphasis on 'putting it right in Photoshop'. To take more care at the shooting stage is what surely should be being taught. You actually say something like this in the video and then go and correct all sorts of things. Its a shame. We need to be looking at images by Karsh and the likes to see near perfection in camera. just saying. Interesting to see how it also takes 5 people on set.
I actually don't think that is fair. An artist can use any tools available to them-- its always about the end results. I just choose to share my process with you to HELP people. I got it close in camera and changed my mind about the bun... so I was able to remove it. The result is what counts, no?