Creating Beautiful Portraits with Clamshell Lighting | Mark Wallace
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- čas přidán 26. 07. 2024
- In this episode, Mark Wallace walks through his process of creating a simple beauty lighting setup with limited gear options:
1. Mark uses a beauty dish to create soft directional light.
2. Mark uses a small octabox and grid to control light spill.
3. A small softbox is added to fill in the shadows.
This lighting setup is simple and easy to recreate, no matter what specific gear you own.
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✘ PRODUCTS USED:
Profoto White Softlight Reflector (Beauty Dish)
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Profoto Honeycomb Grid for the Softlight Reflector
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Profoto D2 1000Ws AirTTL Monolight
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Profoto 2' Octagonal Off-Camera Flash Softbox
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Profoto Off-Camera Flash Speedring for Profoto B1 and B2
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Profoto 2' Octagonal Off-Camera Flash Softgrid
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Matthews Baby Junior Triple Riser Stand with Wheels
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Matthews 40" Arm with Grip Head
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✘ PRODUCTION EQUIPMENT USED:
Sony ZV1 Vlogger Kit
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0:00 Intro
0:20 Goals of the photoshoot
1:17 The basic lighting setup
1:53 Setting up the beauty dish
2:24 First setup photos
2:55 Adjusting the angle of the beauty dish
3:53 A closer look at the light spill
4:49 Setting up the 2' Octabox and grid
6:38 Which aperture value should you use in the studio?
8:19 Second setup photos
8:34 Fine-tuning the Octabox
9:44 Third setup photos
10:11 Adding a fill light
11:43 Shooting the final images
12:00 The final results
12:19 Final thoughts and reminders
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THANKS SO MUCH FOR WATCHING! - Jak na to + styl
I loved the problem-solving aspect of this video Mark. Most demos are done with all the right equipment available, but it’s very helpful to see you making the most of what you had. Love your work Mark - take care in your travels 😀
I am glad you have Mark and other instructors that are very good. Great courses.
Welcome back to "The Zone", Mark. You've been away a long time.
OMG. I'M IN LOVE. SYDNEY IS GORGEOUS. WELCOME BACK MARK
Welcome back! Glad you paid us a visit.
Welcome to Phoenix. Enjoy the nice weather.
She is gorgeous Mark ‼️😍
Thank you! 😊
Good to see you back, Mark!!
As always, gorgeous work Mark and Model
😊 tried it, i got some amazing results
Welcome back and Thank you. Missed you and I miss living in Phoenix
welcome back Mark. Great images and lovely model
I really enjoy the classes from Mark. Great tips.
The legend has returned.
Stunning 👏👏
love this video. great model
Love your lighting videos, thank you for sharing your knowledge!
Awesome video, you have proved to be a nice photographer by making the maximum use of the optimum resources and also its very glad to see an alternative chosen by you and explained so easily.
You make it look easy!
I will be doing more headshots tomorrow (been awhile) and this refresher has been very helpful!! Thanks so much!
Thank you very much, informative and really useful.
amazing model ! great pictures !
Fantastic images guys 👏👏
Thank you very much for this sharing, sir. Photographer is about shoot and re-shoot. It's a long process for the short result. I like it.
I agree with Stephen Elder's comment below. This is a great example of both the fundamentals of lighting as well as using what you have available. Thanks for the instruction.
Thanks, Ed!
💥 Something tells me that these absolutely beautiful portraits were the result of more than just great lighting. Great work as always, Mark.
Very good information, thank you 🙏
Awesome
I love the no frills videos that you make. Soooooo inspiring and helpful to my craft. Thank you Mark.
That was really helpful thank you
Great video!
God this model is s beautiful....
Welcome back to the US hopefully your travels haven't been too adversely affected
Thanks. I think everyone's travels have been adversely affected. I did get stuck for most of the year... www.markonabike.com/2020/07/quarantined-in-argentina/
Thank you!
Welcome back for a bit Mark Wallace.
Thanks!
Grate Video . . .
Welcome home.
Will you be doing any DIY set designs? I know you did the corner wall with a window.
I like to see sets made from dense sheet foam as they carry at big box hardware stores?
Kind of like what Thearter or church Plays do or even Movie set do with foam.
It was nice to see a pro using what most of us have to use and still showing how to get great shots and not having a studio full of the expensive gear then showing us their shots. Keep the episodes coming as they are very informative.
Thanks for the feedback!
Thanks for a nice tutorial, Mark. Did you keep both lights at f/11? Why not power the lower light 1 or 2 stops down?
Hi, Always like your teachings and have used it for my Star Trail photograph. Kindly highlight What if I do not have a light meter.
Excellant, as always. Mark, can you do a video on pupil size? What do you think is more appealing, large pupils or smaller? Women used to put belladonna in their eyes to make their pupils larger, which was considered beautiful at the time. In photography we can control the ambiant and modeling light to change the pupil size, but I have never heard anyone talk about this.
I'm a fan of small pupils so we can see the color of the eyes. But, I think it really comes down to personal preference.
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Nice
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Welcome back to North America Mark, although I’m guessing you’d prefer to be on the road on your KTM. Nice images too.
I think the issues with the Profoto BD have a lot to do with their recessed flash tube design. The deflector disk is too far away to prevent direct flash spill from the tube, the Profoto ProHead Plus strobe head with the exposed flash tube likely provides better light from their DB. Another option would be to have a translucent deflector like the original BD design, Mola and the Speedotron BD are of this concept.
Exactly right. I usually use this dish with my Acute 2 heads that are similar design as the pro heads. I ride a BMW GS. 😉
All problems i face trying to take portraits in a limited space This has answered a lot of questions Great video
Great job sir, please I will like to the know the speed u are using with each of the aparture. Not all of us have the light mitre . Secondly may I know if u reduce or increase ur light beam?
Another simple and enjoyable photo shoot... however, I´m missing your Leica M in these shoots.
My M is down in Colombia waiting for my return. 🙂
Love these workshops! The Wood structure in the back...can you explain how it is used? Just curios
It was just a rolling wall the Blok Studio had available. I just rolled it behind Sydney since I didn't have any seamless paper. The windows in the wall were a bit distracting, so I just used the rolling wall. The team at Blok Studio in Phoenix, AZ built the wall. Link to the studio is in the description. They may have more info on how it was built.
Classic clamshell needs much larger modifiers both top and bottom almost facing up at each other with a tilt to subject of only a couple of degrees. The beauty of the light comes from the extremely 'feathered' light. This set up is fine but a bit harsh. IMHO
Sure glad that wasn't an unhumble opinion LOL
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What is the lighting color temperature? Everything looks amazing!
5200K
How goes it Mark! Welcome back to AZ. Hey, what studio is this? I'm also in Phoenix AZ, and I haven't seen this place before.
Blok Studio. Link is in the description of the video. It’s a great place!
Maybe I missed it but I was looking for what power setting you were using on your scroll thank you
Great video, what lens are you using?
Sony Alpha a7 III 24MP UHD 4K Mirrorless Digital Camera with FE 28-70mm Lens
the small Profoto softbox..whats size is? because it doesnt appear in the list Mark
A wok with a hole... ok I will transform my wok to a b-dish...😂🤣👍👍👍👍🤗
so what was the setting numbers you had each ProPhoto lights dialed into?
Great video, but to me the lower light was a bit on the bright side. I think if it were me I would have set it to f8 or maybe a little bit stronger.
Glad to see you were able to may it back to the states as well.
Or even a little lower… One stop lower doesn't deepen the shadows much. 1.5-2 stops would get a little more dimension that's also filled in!
butterfly ? everyone else calls it clam shell still love you thought
Instead of adjusting the F numbers isn't it more likely to adjust your flash power? Or am i incorrect
Normally, yes. If you have a specific aperture setting you want to use. Since I was ok from f/8 to f/11 I didn't mind just changing my camera to match my flash power. Either way works depending on your needs.
what caera and lense are used here?
Sony Alpha a7 III 24MP UHD 4K Mirrorless Digital Camera with FE 28-70mm Lens
why not just use the softbox as a reflector.
he said, because it gives a little more control
When using that huge softbox underneath, and especially contrasted with the relatively small size of the key light, you went from a reduced shadow under the chin, to washing her chin and face out. You can't even see the definition of her chin. Either a strip box underneath, or gridded if using lights. IMHO
aperture controls the amount of flash. Shutter controls the amount of ambient light
In the studio using strobes there should be NO ambient light visible so the shutter speed is to reduce camera shake.
Nobody suggested using a darker background to begin with?
The pictures are beautiful, but the plywood backdrop looks terrible with the deep field. I feel like it might be cool at f/1.8-4 but being so detailed it just looks cheap.
loved it but i would have moved the light back just a few inches, she's getting hot spots on her nose and forehead.
I disagree with you, it's totally possible use a wider aperture, and not have the ambient light get in your "way", the shutter speed is what will affect the most in that, I love to shoot at 5.6 or around that area in studio, so you can blur a little of the background, but not exaggerate on that.
The shutter is limited by sync speed when using a studio strobe. This strobe did not have high speed sync, so that was the limit.