I'm out of the studio photography game but your video triggered fond memories when I used 4x5 film in college. I bounced strobes onto a white wall and then had the bounce pass through a white scrim. Sandwiched between the wall and scrim were tree branches that took on a magical dappled aesthetic shadowed on the scrim. The subject was a beautiful girl as "Eve' reaching for an apple. Except the "apple" was a bolex 16mm camera. It turned out soon good! Ah, college. Now see what your video did 🤣🤣 triggered a memory that stopped me in my tracks.🤣🤣. Your photos and your videos are top notch. Glad the news feed algorithm bubbled your video up to the top!
Hey Keith, thanks for this awesome comment! That setup sounds amazing and I'm glad my video triggered fond memories for you, and happy you found my channel!
And when using a hilite background. In which you can put lights inside the hilite or on both sides shining in the background. I meter my flash from the point where the person stand towards the background
Fair point, John! I don't use them on location lol. You can get a very similar effect using the background flashes in 1x3 strip boxes. I do that on location and in the studio sometimes too. As long as you control the spill and have enough space to keep the subject far enough from the background to avoid light bouncing back on them, you are good. Thanks for watching and commenting!
I have always metered my background to be +2 stops over my subject. I like your approach better, setting the RGB at 230-240. Gonna give that a try soon!
Thanks, Laurie! I'm sure there is a way to see the values in LR but I'm not sure how. I stopped using LR to tether because it was a LOT slower than Capture One.
In LR go to Develop, Tone Curve and click on the Point Adjustment Bullseye. Point with your mouse at the part of the photo to measure the Luminosity Value. The value will be displayed on the upper left of the histogram.
Better than reflectors on the the background lights is to use strip boxes. You get a more even white across the whole area with no hotspots and your client isn't standing inside a box. Negative fill, be it the black side of V-flats or something else, does come in handy when the person is wearing white or has very light blonde hair that fades into the background.
Thanks Jimmy. Good point! Sometimes I do that as well. I actually like having my clients in the box (lol) so I have more control over the light that reaches them.
@@juniorferrarifotografia I generally don't use grids on the stripboxes for backgrounds. There may be times a grid is needed though, such as to keep the light from also reflecting off near by perpendicular walls if working in a small space like some of my client's offices. If you have a decent size studio space that isn't an issue.
@@TheRockerxx69 The diagram and video show the background flash setup only, but if you check out this video I talk about one of my lighting methods for portraits: czcams.com/video/XGL9iZN2ijg/video.html I'm going to do more lighting tutorials so stay tuned and thanks so much for checking it out!
I'm out of the studio photography game but your video triggered fond memories when I used 4x5 film in college. I bounced strobes onto a white wall and then had the bounce pass through a white scrim. Sandwiched between the wall and scrim were tree branches that took on a magical dappled aesthetic shadowed on the scrim. The subject was a beautiful girl as "Eve' reaching for an apple. Except the "apple" was a bolex 16mm camera. It turned out soon good! Ah, college. Now see what your video did 🤣🤣 triggered a memory that stopped me in my tracks.🤣🤣. Your photos and your videos are top notch. Glad the news feed algorithm bubbled your video up to the top!
Hey Keith, thanks for this awesome comment! That setup sounds amazing and I'm glad my video triggered fond memories for you, and happy you found my channel!
Great video Pete! Thanks for the advice and the images are spot on!
Thanks, Darryl!
Great video Pete!
Thanks, Jakub!
Thank you for the advice. Great video.
My pleasure! Thanks for tuning in.
And when using a hilite background. In which you can put lights inside the hilite or on both sides shining in the background. I meter my flash from the point where the person stand towards the background
The cool thing is there are a variety of ways to get a pure white background.
I like your intro 👌
Thank you dude!
All good, if you carry around massive V flats
Fair point, John! I don't use them on location lol. You can get a very similar effect using the background flashes in 1x3 strip boxes. I do that on location and in the studio sometimes too. As long as you control the spill and have enough space to keep the subject far enough from the background to avoid light bouncing back on them, you are good. Thanks for watching and commenting!
I have always metered my background to be +2 stops over my subject. I like your approach better, setting the RGB at 230-240. Gonna give that a try soon!
Good stuff! I've gotten to the point where I can sort of eyeball it to be in the right range.
Hi Pete! That was enjoyable and informative. I'm not using capture one yet; do you know if rgb values can be controlled in LR? Thanks for the video.
Thanks, Laurie! I'm sure there is a way to see the values in LR but I'm not sure how. I stopped using LR to tether because it was a LOT slower than Capture One.
In LR go to Develop, Tone Curve and click on the Point Adjustment Bullseye. Point with your mouse at the part of the photo to measure the Luminosity Value. The value will be displayed on the upper left of the histogram.
@@howardholtzman1331 Thanks, Howard!
Nice video. But that laptop bouncing around in the foreground is killing me :)
Haha thank you! I gotta get that table sorted out. It wobbles like crazy LOL
Better than reflectors on the the background lights is to use strip boxes. You get a more even white across the whole area with no hotspots and your client isn't standing inside a box. Negative fill, be it the black side of V-flats or something else, does come in handy when the person is wearing white or has very light blonde hair that fades into the background.
Thanks Jimmy. Good point! Sometimes I do that as well. I actually like having my clients in the box (lol) so I have more control over the light that reaches them.
Do you use the stripbox with or without a grid?
@@juniorferrarifotografia I generally don't use grids on the stripboxes for backgrounds. There may be times a grid is needed though, such as to keep the light from also reflecting off near by perpendicular walls if working in a small space like some of my client's offices. If you have a decent size studio space that isn't an issue.
Can't you have a draw of the studio set up? I don t understand.
If you go to this link, you can see an image of the lighting setup from above: petecocophoto.com/headshot-lighting-diagram
@@PeteCocoPhoto yes many thanks. Very kind. But how can the face be so well lit like in your excellent portraits ? If the strobes don t go direct?
@@TheRockerxx69 The diagram and video show the background flash setup only, but if you check out this video I talk about one of my lighting methods for portraits: czcams.com/video/XGL9iZN2ijg/video.html
I'm going to do more lighting tutorials so stay tuned and thanks so much for checking it out!
@@PeteCocoPhoto Luv ya!
@@TheRockerxx69 right back at ya!
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