Professional Studio Portraits with Your Kit Camera and Two Speedlights! Master Tim Kelly Shows You!
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- čas přidán 26. 06. 2020
- Some subscribers have been a little skeptical about the limitations of a "starter camera and kit lens" for making high-grade studio portraits. Well, on top of that, we're using two inexpensive speedlights and even cheaper softbox and accessories! So, NO EXCUSES! Ha!
There are lots of lessons in this demo for all levels of photographers, particularly lighting and posing techniques.
Tim is using an older Canon Rebel with the 18-55 kit lens, two Godox V1 strobes, a Godox 80cm square pop-up soft box and a full-size white reflector.
Watch the whole video and see how much you can do with so little!
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THE ONLY MAN ON CZcams WHO MADE SENSE!!! THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You're welcome! Thanks for watching.
Shows you can do alot with even a kit lens if you know what you're doing. Tim is a master photographer and teacher!
Thank you, and thanks for watching
You know you are the last of a dying breed. You are a teacher. What a concept. Listening to you I do not feel stupid.
Thanks, Michael!
Wow! Your ability to use gear is amazing as is your attention to details. Thank You.
So glad i found someone from the film days. Thank you for going over basics
Thanks for watching!
And you have to not be afraid to give direction, the way Tim is doing is great because most models are young and they have no idea what they are doing. You have to remind them where the key light is.
Thanks! And thanks for watching.
In a time when true beauty is becoming a thing of the past in most of the arts, many of which are now vulgar and juvenile, seeing a master at work is beyond refreshing. I hope I can inch my way closer and closer to this fine-tuned, tasteful, timeless portraiture.
Thank you so much.
Appreciate you watching.
Couldn’t agree more, my friend! Anyone can do trashy, and they do. But timeless and beautiful works of art? More, please.
Thank you so much for this refresher! 👍📸👍
All of your teaching is very good 👋🏻
I know this video is 3 years old but it is very nicely done and absolutely shows that even with less than "professional" equipment one can take really good portraits. As long as one knows what they're doing, of course. The camera is just a tool and of course you want to have the best tools possible but even with a camera aimed at beginners one can still produce very good images. This should motivate the up and coming photographers to work with what they have. Very nicely done, Tim, as always.
Thanks!
A true photography Sensei! I enjoy your videos!
Thank you!
another simple but amazing shot
Your videos are very quality and informative. I am very appreciated. Thank you so much.
Great lesson again. I will Grab my old canon 400 D and the Kit and See how it will work in comparism to my Sony a7. Thanks very much! Greatings from Germany!
Like always, very good Video, thank you very much.
this is the classics on you tube. Thanks Tim for talking through with what your thinking. keep up the great work
My pleasure! Thanks for watching.
This is exactly what I needed, thank you good sir!
Thanks for watching!
Good information.Easy set up with great results. Very inspiring. Thanks.
Thanks for watching, Dan!
Really easy to follow, clear tutorial. Thanks!
Thanks for watching!
Thanks for the lesson. I have learned much from your teaching method. I will be looking or more of your videos.
Steven, thanks for watching.
Very very inspirational thank you so much Tim for a very educational video.
Glad you enjoyed it Thanks for watching!
Great teacher, great model and great pictures.
Glad you liked it!
Your videos have helped me so much with lighting & posing. Thank you Tim.
Thank YOU for watching!
Absolutely brilliant
Thank you!
Lovely work Tim, inspiring.
Many thanks!
Love her she is amazing
Really helpful for us beginner's with OCF, very well explained, thank you.
Thanks for watching!! Glad it was helpful!
I like those traditional portraits. I prefer the low key and high key portraits
Thanks. I learned.
Glad to hear it!
Thank you for sharing ..
Thank you.
Dear Sir, thank you very much for teaching your photographic art. I can only see your techniques as I don't speak English but I can assure you that I understand a lot. I see it from Argentina. I'll keep watching your videos. Lots of hits.!! Best regards.!!
Thank you.
Thank you so much for sharing valuable tips. Would be awaiting to see more lighting tips for portraits.
Thanks for watching! I hope you have subscribed!
@@TimKellysMasterPhotoTechniques yes I have subscribed.
Thanks for this Tim. I tend to use Bowen lamps but seeing this means I could use my Nikon Speed Lights to the same effect, this would save lugging those big heavy lamps around. I also have a V1 which is lovely to use so I may well buy more.
Totally love my lightweight speedlight set up. I just wish I had larger pop-up softboxes than the Godox 30" SQ that I use most often. I don't like assembling gear on site. Big umbrellas are the easiest BIG modifiers I've found.
Thanks for watching.
My 3ed or 4th time watching this video!,, I would think I know the basics now
Great tutorial! Grtz from the Netherlands.
Thank you!
Fantastic tutorial. I don’t do enough of this. Going to make some calls for a subject and grab my camera!
Glad it was helpful!
Super
Trimakasih ilmunya sir. From indonesia
Professional ❤️
What the kind of backdrop
Very nice educational video Sir 👍🤝. Can you please make more videos on constant LED light portrait photography with camera settings because nowadays it's in vogue. We would like to learn it. Thank you .
really enjoyed that again tim,simple and effective lighting with reflectors.i noticed a small plaster on one of laura's fingers, maybe something to mention for future videos? she is very pretty, and very photogenic.thanks.
Good call. We always max-retouch our client work. This is all for demonstration, so nobody's paying .. (-:
If only new photographers could see this video instead of all the gear Advertisers here on CZcams!. It would have saved me a fortune over the years!...
Thank you! I've been educating photographers world-wide for over thirty years, but started my CZcams channel less than two years ago. Mostly because I love to teach (and create), but the industry powers have opted to feature younger instructors. Oh, well. I appreciate my audience here.
To finish off this video and to proove your point about using basic equipment, you might have shown an enlarged print from the session. Your model is beautiful.
Yes, that would be a good idea. I figured folks are watching in a relatively small format where the couldn't appreciate the fidelity. I have a Facebook page that I use for Master Photo Techniques where I can put this, and other images and answers. I will try that! Check it out in a few days. Thanks. facebook.com/TimKellyPortraitArtist
This video is very helpful for me. May I know what is the size of the background width and also the size of the soft box
8'x10' Hand Painted Canvas from Backgrounds by Maheu
What's type of aperture are you using?
Enjoyed your video. Would be nice to see some shots with the background darkened. With such a great subject, your pictures would show a more dramatic side to her.
Thanks for watching! We have done some since. A video using film cameras. Came out great!
Really enjoyed this and learned a lot. Thanks. As a matter of interest, why don't you add a rim light?
Hi Keith. Thanks for watching.
I always have a kick light set up in the camera room to be used as needed or desired. I don't use extra light because I have them, however. In general I don't like people (clients/viewers) to be looking at lighting. The should be looking at the subject. I try to make my lighting look natural, not attracting attention to itself. Now, there are times that you NEED a kick or a rim light to separate subjects from the background or scene. A dark wardrobe on a dark background will need rim lighting for sure. If the the subject stands off nicely, I won't use one.
I change the values of my background with my grid light most of the time. I hope that helps.
Great video as usual. I noticed when shifted the light to the other side, you did not move the posing chair to the other side. do you ever do that? How would a posing table have worked out or do you not like them? Thanks.
Thanks for watching! Because it was a tiny black chair, it had no potential to be a distraction, or overlit. I used a posing table all though the '60's and 70's. They can be helpful, but you really can't "show " them in the image unless carefully disguised. Your choice. I don't want to have to decorate a posing table or be limited to it as the bottom end of my composition.
It's kind of funny how things evolve, how huge using the light meter was and now, it's pretty insignificant.
Nice tutorials!
Sir Tim kindly mention the camera settings and lense focal length also.
Thanks for watching! I always strive to use the same working settings in the studio, and don't deviate. ISO 100 / 1/125th sec @ f/9 with a 70-200 f/2.8 L series zoom at the longest focal lenght I need for the shot.
Hi Tim. Could you tell me exactly the background that you have used in this video so that I can buy it? Thank you very much.
Gray canvas comes from David Maheu.
www.backgroundsby maheu.com
By the way, Laura did a nice job. Question on modeling: During the standing 3 quarters poses, Laura popped her knee on the rear leg to the camera. Some who I have heard, talk about popping the knee closer to the camera as the action pushes the opposite hip out further. So they say don't push the hip closer to the camera even closer. Do you have a different opinion or with Laura was this not even an issue? Thanks.
Your observation is correct. NORMALLY I like to push the knee inward to "close" the legs more and narrow hips and a reduction ti the thickness of legs or thighs. Of course in her case, nothing was necessary and no attention went to the lowest portion of the longer images. There is NO CHANGE in the normal posing. She was just very small.
How would you pose and light an older, heavier subject to be most flattering? I have to do a portrait for someone who is very pretty although older, quite heavy and very self conscious. I’m dreading it so any tips would be much appreciated.
Every subject needs unique treatment, but in general, higher camera angles help, lots of "lean" to get the face away from the body, and sometimes a shorter lighting pattern. Also use gobos to keep light off of large bodies. Find your subjects best attribute and mute down everything else.
Great lesson, what size is your softbox? :)
If these are the Godox boxes they are 30" square.
So your main light is not your main light the reflector is?
Hi sir lovely video i have a question i want to mix my elinchrom strobes with godox ad200 is it possible to fire up all of them at once if yes how to set it
I use a GODOX X2T on my camera to fire my Godox strobes and ON TOP of that I Use the remote trigger for my other brand strobes.
Hope it works for you too.
@@TimKellysMasterPhotoTechniques thank you sir I will research on it and try it thank you so much . I am thrilled to explore your channel.❤
Hi Tim, can you tell me if you use the Godox Softboxes with the inner Diffusor too or just with the outer one by using speedlites?
I use both. I prefer soft, even light.
I leave the inner baffle in the 80cm square boxes.
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Can you teach us how to meter the light with a light metre
Tim is a very experienced photographer and will not use a light-meter (so do not ask him) and because of his vast knowledge he prefers to use the "suck it and see" method. What he does when he shoots film I do not know, he probably uses a digital camera to meter. His results are outstanding so he must be doing something right.
Thanks for watching! I hate to decline, but for studio portraiture, which is what I like to teach, it is simply not necessary. I understand those who believe in them. I used one for about twenty years. It was especially helpful during "film" years, and the larger and more expensive the film, the more carefully you'd use them. As a largely portrait shooter, I KNEW my lights and ultimately switched to polaroid as my testing option. Digital provided a very good feedback - and you can master the reading of your test images.
A flash meter is a very simple tool that really only wants make everything 18% gray.(if I remember that right). It can give incident or reflective values, but beyond that there is SO MUCH MORE to consider! Render intent, and subject failure (things that fool the sensor) are just the beginning.
So, since I no longer had the need for one since 1985, I wouldn't be the one to teach using one.
Tim I love your videos BUT could you please do one on lighting older people with wrinkles, double chins, eye bags etc. In real life, we don't get perfect models! Thank you!
I do those kind nearly everyday - the trouble is how do you recruit the person for a video? Maybe I'll get my mother .. (-:
It is very necessary though. We'll look for opportunities.
Thanks for watching!
Thanks for teaching us.. Does Laura have account on Instagram?
Apparently prtraits could not be shot on film. --BAK--
Not on that camera! Ha.
Интересно....И девушка очень милая. И вообще всё выглядит как типичная российская студия...ну + - конечно.