Magnum Reflector Fashion Shoot | Inside Fashion and Beauty Photography with Lindsay Adler
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- čas přidán 29. 06. 2021
- A Magnum reflector is a stunning modifier for creating sculpted, hard light in a fashion shoot. While not one of the more common light modifiers, it is a favorite amongst many fashion photographers. Why? Because you get the crisp shadows of hard light, yet its size and finish create a bit more pleasing/forgiving glow on the skin. It’s like sunlight, but more flattering!
In fact, when on location many photographers will use a Magnum reflector to simulate the feel of sunlight but to have more control and more flattering directionality. In the studio, however, I frequently use a Magnum reflector when I want a more timeless, old Hollywood hard light effect.
To channel this timelessness in this shoot I don’t need to go full ‘vintage’, but instead, I focus on sculpted light with rich black and white tonalities (as you can see in this example).
When using the Magnum reflector there are a few important things to keep in mind:
(1) Hot Spot: The Magnum reflector doesn’t create an even light source. Instead, part of it will be more focused/brighter than the rest. Be careful when pointing the light so that the hot spot isn’t hitting the chest of the shoulder. I recommend it either hit the face or hit somewhere off the subject’s body.
(2) Feathering: The way that you angle the light source will create varying effects on the subject and background. In this setup, I angle the light so that the top left-hand corner of the frame is darker and creates a pleasing gradient across the Savage Fashion Grey seamless paper.
(3) “Zoom”: When using a Profoto Magnum reflector you have the ability to “zoom” the light on the head. You can adjust the light so it sits further back on the strobe or moves it forward. Depend on the placement you will have a light that is a bit more concentrated (narrower beam) or light that covers more area of the scene. Be sure to experiment to see what fits your concept.
For this setup, I used a single Profoto D2 strobe, a Profoto magnum reflector, and a Savage Universal Fashion Grey Background. And….that’s it! Bringing this shot to life was all about getting the right expressions, pose, and energy (through motion). Because I knew much of the subject’s body would be in silhouette, I carefully posed my subject to create visual curves/hourglass shapes. Crossing her knees over and cropping near the knees, helped to create a ‘narrowing point’ to emphasize the pleasing curves we created.
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Photographer: Lindsay Adler
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Video: Samuel Bouret
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Hair: Linh Nguyen
Makeup: Joanne Gair
Styling: The Cannon Media Group
Model: Hong
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One of the best instructors for the Internet. Learned a lot in person and online. Kudos to Adorama and Lindsay.
❤Awesome work!!
Lindsay does it...AGAIN!!
Beautiful images Ms. Lindsay Adler thank you for always sharing so much great points to create strong images! And thank you ADORAMA for having professionals like Lindsay Adler on your channel.
Perfectly put. Lindsay, your videos are always inspiring and fun.
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Thanks for another deep-packed filled knowledge video. YOU not only give us a simple lighting position, but you tell us what your thinking when your shooting. Thanks!
So glad you enjoyed it!
The model is simply amazing.
Right! I LOVEEEED shooting her!
Great Tutorial. And perfect one light setup.
Lindsay 😊👌🏾 this was amazing. You’re right, hard light does make your work stand out. You’re the only modern photographer that really push hard light. I love it. Thank you.
hope that your model will come back (she is superb!) and love your hard light as the vintage style of your images.. very inspiring!!!!
RIGHT! sooo good. I tried to hire her for a commercial job recent but she wasn't available and I was sooo bummed.
That was absolutely gorgeous photo shoot I loved the high details towards the end
Lindsey you’re always an inspiration
Aww thanks Kamill!
Great concept, great Images.
Great example of what few think to do. Super explanations & samples. I'm a subscriber.
Awww thank you. My goal is always ... get to the point!
Amazing and beautiful as always. While this episode had nothing to do with your optical spot, I just got mine and scheduled a shoot for next month. While I’m sure I won’t use it during my whole 6 hours of shooting I can’t wait to use it. I even grabbed your ebook on using it for inspiration. I’m so excited so thank you for sharing and inspiring all of us with your absolutely beautiful work and education.
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Great Video!!
Very nice
wow Lindsay you look beautiful today :)
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Great video Lindsey. I was wondering Where are you aiming the hotspot in this shoot?
Can I use this with a speedlight ?
Awsome
Very cool
Hey Lindsay, can I achieve the same affect with my OCF Magnum Reflector? I shoot with a B10 Plus.
I haven't tried it but I believe it would be harder (since it is a smaller light source), so not quite as forgiving on the skin, but perhaps more 'sun like'.
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Hi Lindsay, just followed you on every channel! I just bought a godox V1 flash and want to achieve this look. ( the flash has 75 watts ) I can still trade it back for a 300watts studio flash. What minimum of watts do you recommend? Thanks!!
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Nice! Thanks for sharing.
Could a similar look be achieved with a silver beauty dish? It also wouldn't have the same hot spot.
Thoughts?
It wouldn't be as hard nor as focused... but if you put a grid on the beauty dish it would narrow the area of illumination.
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One important note about using a Magnum reflector, the model needs to have impecable skin and the make up needs to be top notch, otherwise be ready for an editing nightmare
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