Better Than A Soft Box, Inexpensive Product Lighting Solution
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- čas přidán 29. 11. 2021
- When you're doing product photography soft boxes are not always the solution. There's a technique that product photographers have been using for years that gives them beautiful highlights. Highlights they can scale to what they're photographing. And the ability to really create things in tight spaces. We also show you how to match colors for your products and photo styling! Take a look and let us know what you think! #Product #Lighting #Color
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Jay P. Morgan has been working as a Commercial Photographer and Film Director in the Los Angeles area for more than 20 years developing an impressive list of clients from Paramount to McDonald's. Jay P.'s experience with elaborate set design and extensive lighting are key to the success of his illustrative work.
Broadcast Sheet Lighting!!! Sweet! It truly gives the softest wrap-around light in the studio! Thank you for teaching this
You're so welcome! Thanks for your comment!
I've been using tracing paper rolls for a long time. Lately I discovered the soft diffusion of Ikea white shower curtains. For $8 - $14 you get a nice large (71"x71") translucent material. I used Klockaren because it was on sale, but they have a few choices.
Side note: Ikea names its bath items after lakes and bodies of water, bed textiles are plants and flowers, shelves are boys names and you can look up the rest. They all mean something.
I've used shower curtain material in the past, they can be trickier to use. Depends on the setup. They're more floppy and don't come in long rolls. Haven't tried tracing paper before, having a roll of it would be much handier.
@@kennuimuffins2426 Yeah the shower curtains are good for backlighting, hung like a seamless
Interesting. Thank you for sharing your photo tip!
And using Datacolor device to get the complimenting color swatches, PRICELESS!
Glad you liked it. Thanks for watching!
Why waste all the time and resources when you could just use photoshop?
@@Jeesh it’s a different creative process…choice is yours!
Very useful tutorial especially for those who shoot in the tight space.
Good to hear. Thanks for your comment!
Liked, subscribed, and used your paid link to purchase the Datacolor ColorReader EZ. Have a regular job where a softbox is a struggle due to the low ceiling and your tracing paper idea is brilliant. Well done and thank you for your effort!
Awesome, thank you! And thanks for subscribing and using the link!
Yes! i have been using tracing paper as diffusers (as well as other stuff) for ages.
Good to know! It really does work out great!
Good Choice of matching Mondrian Shirt! Nice video, thank you for you enthusiasm.
You are welcome. Glad you like it!
Fantastic video! I'm going to try this with my photography students.
Sounds like a great plan!
Great advice! Also foam core makes a great reflector board in a pinch.
So true! Those foam boards we used are just cheap alternatives!
JP your videos are done so well and so tasteful!! No dancing around, loud music or other overdone silly crap like certain others on YT I avoid. You are a true professional and don't need gimmicks to get views. Also, Perfect audio as I can understand every word you said even with the room ambience. Don't ever change a thing!!!
Thank you for your kind words!
I sense love and art for you profession because you easily could have used a green screen with the Mondriaan cubicles projected.
But that never would have given the same result. Great vid👍🏾
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Per usual, great information....well presented.
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Great timing because I’ll be shooting shoes this weekend. Thanks.
Let us know how it goes!
I love the checkr card. You might think it's a bit expensive for a card with some color patches on it, but it saves a lot of time in post and I can't imagine any other solution that would be as fast and accurate as this is (or a comparable card from some other manufacturer).
Good to hear. We agree. Thanks for sharing your experience!
great stuff. Thanks very much!
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Great input! Love it!
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First time Visitor ... GREAT VIDEO Thank you ! ☮️❤️💪🏼🎨
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Wow this was incredible! Thank you
You're so welcome! Glad it was helpful!
You are a real master, thanks
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Very informative and creative video! :)
Have a good week!
Thank you, I appreciat that! You too!
Thank you so much👏🏼
You’re welcome 😊. Thanks for watching!
Great tutorial - will try and pick up some of those bounce cards for sure.
Sounds like a good plan!
Great video. Thank you!
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Man, you are godly! Thanks.
Glad you found it worthwhile. Thanks for watching!
you are too good teacher. How easily you explain.
Thank you so much. Glad you are learning some good things!
what ingeniusness!
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Great! Super useful 👌🏽
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Tips and tricks. My respects!
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Awesome setting!💯🔥
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Lots of good ideas here.
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Great video!
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This is so good!
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I like the side by side comparison
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Been using this for years!
Good to hear. Thanks for sharing!
Thank you 😊
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Very good. Thx.
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Bravo !!!!!
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Master at work :) Great video.
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@@TheSlantedLens Always :) ( I come we are always working ? I just finish editing .....)
Another very helpful video showing studio lighting alternatives to Soft Boxes and other large modifiers. Very useful tips on color, color accuracy, and bkgd ideas too, Thank you!
You are welcome! Glad it was helpful!
I use grease proof paper to defuse constant lighting. I started using when I used to use red head lights for video work.
Sounds like another good approach. Thanks for sharing!
Thanks for this Jay. Just wondering, since your ceiling height is low and it looked fairly white, what if you had just bounced your light off it and skipped the vellum paper?
Good question, I think since the ceiling is much bigger, there will be a lot of light spill in unnecessary areas and will not light the backdrop evenly.
Good question! You loose control. You can't light the background separately and if the ceiling is too far away you have to move the entire set up.
Very nice! Except for the Nike shoes, of course😆
That was my favorite part! Thanks for watching!
I have various sizes of frosted shower curtains I cut to different sizes and so much of the same you did here.
Great idea. Thanks for sharing that great tip!
Great video, thank you, do you think it would have been worthwhile slightly knocking down the light somehow on the top shoe?
We did tone down the light from above. Thanks for watching!
@@TheSlantedLens thank you again, this would have affected the lower shoe?
Great video enjoyed the ideas in lighting and also the background creativity for product shots. I have used white kitchen baking paper as diffusion from sides and 45 degress but not from above like you did. Although I have a low ceiling Im a speedlite guy and can get them up above with a softbox when needed however I often find myself using the ceiling itself as my big softbox giving a big broad diffused light with very little shadow but I fancy trying that overhead diffusion idea you showed as an alternative with more control over light, shadow and direction.
Thanks for sharing all of your great ideas!
A color checker is a must for products.
Now using the paper how much does it change the Kevin temp?
For the background what material did you paint?
We used Luan for the background, it paints out really smooth. We did not check the Kelvin temperature difference. Good question!
Savage Translum is a great diffusion material
Good to know. Thanks for sharing!
Hello, Thank you for the video. I wanted to ask if you can make a Spyder Checker Tutorial. How to use it in Capture 1? Thank you!
That is an interesting topic. We will brainstorm on that.
Thank you! Would be much appreciated!
Goodness I learn so much from TSL. Little points that mean so much.
So good to hear! Thanks for the feedback!
Try using Garden Fleece - does exactly the same job, but you can stuff it in a bag afterwards.
That's a great tip. Thanks for sharing!
Shower curtain liners also work.
Yeah, several people have mentioned those. Thanks for sharing!
What's the added benefit of the colorreader instead of just taking a color calibrated photo and then digitally picking the color? Is it really worth the $50?
Given the low ceiling, is it feasible to simy bounce the flash off it? Just wondering...
If you bounce the flash off the ceiling then you don't have control of the size of the highlight. It gives you less control.
What do they call the framework you use to hold the tracing paper?
We used C-stands and A clamps to hold up the tracing paper.
Great video exept for one fact. I see you have a ehite studio. Iwould bouncing the light o. The roof not have achieved the same effect? I used this at children partis and weddings where i had no timeto setup a softbox. It gives the same result.
Bouncing light off the ceiling is another approach. Thanks for watching!
Hi! What did you use to attach the fill cards?
Those are A-clamps: bhpho.to/3QDgwpa
@@TheSlantedLens I meant to what to did you attach them with the a clams?
How about a white bed sheet?
That might work as well. Depends on how much light it lets through.
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yes but it catches fire
Strobe heads don't heat up, a 2K would be a problem.
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Hope you learned some good stuff.
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Absolutely amazing! God bless u brother. Like and Sub. Really enjoyed this info. Be blessed in the name of the Lord Jesus!
Welcome aboard! Thanks for the sub!
People have also used toilet paper to diffuse light. With an elastic : instant softbox.
That's an idea for a small light source. Thanks for sharing!
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I am surprised that anyone is suggesting tracing paper with continuous light. It is a fire hazard. Just because a few Pro's do it and haven't had a fire doesn't mean its safe. Please people, buy Rosco or Lee diffusion rolls. Yes they are expensive, but much less than the cost of damage that a fire could cause.
Good point. Safety first. We were showing with strobes which does not present a fire hazard.
Very nice - but - don't touch the color card squares with your fingers! It ruins the colors on the card.
Good suggestion. Thanks for watching!
You’re ceiling is too low?? Why not drop your subject two feet? There’s no reason to shoot that from a standing position.
That would be another solution. Thanks for watching!
Tricky!!! Not Inexpensive solution.. 😄 Reflectors, Stands, Color Checker, Camera.. 🤪🤪🤪
Inexpensive compared to a softbox. And yes, photography is not cheap!
@@TheSlantedLens What good Hobby is there that's; Rewarding, and/or worth doing that's "CHEAP" ? My Remote Controlled 60-97mph boat(s) cost just about the same.
you can use a cheap shower curtain , Walmart
We have heard that idea from several people. Thanks for sharing!
So much work to take a photo of some crappy trainers, lol
Hey, we liked those shoes! Keep on clickin!
I completely understand the point of using tracing paper when a softbox won't do (or isn't available), but a minor and somewhat pedantic point for your demonstration...couldn't you have staged the setup of the shoes and background much lower to the ground and...used a softbox? Sorry, I couldn't resist.
The thing about the paper is that you can spread it so much wider to spread across your set.
@@TheSlantedLens true, but wouldn't you still be faced with the issue of spreading the light evenly over the longer surface of the tracing paper...or is it just that the 'unlit' paper acts as a white reflector?
This is but still nothing more than a infomercial
Hope you learned a thing or two. Thanks for watching!
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We searched for the correct way to pronounce it and that is what we got.
Great video!
Thank you! Glad you liked it!