What Is Light Fall Off? | Take and Make Great Photography with Gavin Hoey
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- čas přidán 21. 07. 2024
- One of the many properties of light is the predictable way it becomes less and less bright the further it travels from its source. Scientifically this is often called the inverse square law but photographer Gavin Hoey has no time mathematics in his small home studio. So he’s got a far more visual way to demonstrate exactly how light fall off in the real world.
As Gavin explains, understanding how fast or slow light falls off is an essential lighting skill for any photographer who needs to take control of a scene. Light fall off can be used to create areas with even illumination, giving your subject the freedom to move, or you can use rapid light fall off as a way to create a scene with high contrast.
After Gavin has covered the technical side of light fall off he sets up a simple shoot using a large black and white parabolic umbrella. Using his understanding of light fall off, Gavin able to correctly light his models head but allow the studio floor to become underexposed without the need for post-processing.
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What Is Light Fall Off?
0:00 Intro
0:32 What is light fall off?
1:06 Marking out light fall off
2:37 What light fall off looks like
4:28 Setting up the shoot
5:34 One light shoot
6:55 Add two extra lights
7:40 Three light shoot
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"Now if you watching this in the future, and you have no idea what I'm talking about by social distancing... that's really good." Just hilarious loved it so much !
I've learned that social distancing starts around F5.6. That's good to know.
@@matt_phistopheles If we had a comment of the week award, I'd nominate Matt 😂
@@GavinHoey Love the fact that if somebody actually sees this in the future and don't know jack about social distancing, Gavin said crap about it, leaving them in limbo. Don't know if this transfers, but that's so funny to me.
Probably the best teacher in photography.
This is probably the best visual demonstration of light fall off I've seen. 👍🦆
AGREED! I love watching Gavin! He always teaches me so much.
Hurley had a good one albeit more relax and less technical, still gotta love Gavin.
Gavin: Sympathetic, pleasant, likable, professional & humorous 👍
Always fun to watch Gavin explain concepts. He does a great job. No boring at all.
Thanks Gavin for sharing so valuable information, I have been watching your videos since six months regularly & it helps me to boost my confidence & experience as well .
Although I have a very good understanding of mathematics, I love the way you conceptually demonstrated the inverse square law. That was absolutely GENIUS! That's what makes you such a great teacher. Thanks again for another great video!
Thanks for the kind words Joe. Seeing the inverse sqaure law is how it all made sense to me, I love a good maths problem too but I don't like problems in my photography 😉
Sir you are a really great teacher! You just leave no place for any questions or doubts whatsoever! Big admirer of yours 🥰
I completely agree that formulas have their uses, but a visual explanation works better! Thanks for another awesome post, Gavin!
The theory is simple and obvious, when explained properly. Thanks for the great lecture!
Thank you Gavin and Adorama for teaming up to provide great tutorials like this...
By far the best photography channel in the planet. Thanks Gavin!
Thanks. This was really helpful. I hadn't paid that much attention to the amount of light fall off. The inverse square law does make one's eyes glaze over. This was perfect at visualizing the effect.
You've been using the same music track for years - and that's not a complaint. Every time I hear it in one of your videos, it makes me pleasantly nostalgic for the days when I first discovered your channel a couple of years ago and was introduced so eloquently and elegantly to the world of flash photography. I hope you live forever, Gavin, and I'll keep watching as long as I live, too! Thank you and your family for the great content!
Great tutorial - starting with the exposure reference levels and working out the distance is very effective. The markers give a great visual explanation of why the light drop-off changes so much with distance - the nearer Fern gets to the light, the closer the next f-stop marker is right behind her. Gavin I love your "small home studio" - it makes your tutorials so much more interesting than a big fancy studio; I always start to think, 'hey, I could do this myself with my own small home studio!" Thank you!
Gavin Hoey is my favourite youtuber. I am learning product photography but I watch each and every video of him which is mostly aimed at portraits.
Enjoyed watching thanks! Seeing the different exposure effects as Fern moved along the wall was helpful
I love this so much. Another great video Gavin. It is very inspiring and I will surely give it a try very soon.
I really enjoyed this video, so much helpful and you make it sound easy and exciting so much i wanna try it as soon as i can .. great work and thank you
As always great content and super fun to watch. Thank you so much for all these years of teaching ❤️
Best online teacher out there, always so simple and informative, thank you
Awesome video. Thank you Gavin
I thought whenever I saw your sneak peak it would be a light up inside. Simple and obvious, but makes a really cool shot that I plan to try myself. Another great episode Gavin, and why I keep coming back, and the pictures are amazing!
I like your passion of photography which shows through your demonstrations. And I am learning things too so thank you
Really great- so love your videos Gavin.
Great demo of the falloff, Gavin, and pleasing shots to back up the math. Thank you!
Can always count on a couple of hours of competent instruction/information in 15 minutes or less. Thanks, Gavin.
What a wonderful concept. Great video !
Very enlightening. I love this
Always fun to watch your work👍
Thank you very much for the visual illustration of inverse square law. It was very helpful. I always find videos from Adorama very much on point and explaining everything really well.
Missed this one last week and it was very informative. Thank you as always Gavin and Sam
Thanks Gavin, making it simple and fun for photographers.
Excellent as always
Your work is very informative, thanks for sharing.
Superb craftsmanship!
Always good to revisit the basics.
As always an instructive/inspiring, enlightening video 👌 thanks a lot !
An excellent example of the Inverse Square Law in action and explained in simple terms. Brilliant! Thank you Gavin.
Thanks David and not a formula in sight 😁
I was so excited to see another great video of yours!! Thanks so much!!
Thanks Lisa 👍
Hi Gavin Hoey.
My name is Francisco Mauro, I'm from Brazil and I'm learning a lot from your videos how to use a speedlight flash.
His compositions are excellent.
I've already bought a good flash and I'm going to start doing my experiments according to your techniques that you demonstrate with great skill in your videos. Grateful.
I always learn a ton from your videos. Thank you Gavin
I love how you explain concepts, makes it so easy to understand!
Great video, and very useful, thank you.
Full of fun, beauty, and fruitful takeaway! Thank you from Hong Kong
This is just what I've been contemplating with my own photo shoot. I want some dramatic fall off using one speed light focused on the head (my dog) of my subject. Thank you for the visual explanation. I learn something new each time I watch your videos.
That sounds like a great idea for a shoot Patty, I'm glad I've been of some help 👍
Stunning.
You are simply the best !!! Tks Gavin !
Very cool. Gives me a lot of ideas for cool shoots. Thanks!
As always, a clear and simple explanation of a topic I have seen many new photographers struggle with (sometimes for years). Super !
Thanks Alan 👍
Great presentation Mr. Gavin Hoey! What I like most is that your studio space seems to be in the smaller side giving great visual for those of us who do not have large spaces to use as studios. Thanks ADORAMA for having great Professionals like Gavin Hoey on your channel!
Thanks Alexander. My studio is on the small side but with a bit of creative thinking, it does pretty well... most of the time 😉
Just awesome advice as ever! Always entertaining too.
Love your videos Gavin!
Who would've thought to hide a flash inside an umbrella like that. Very clever Gavin. Love your videos
As always clear and easy to follow. Thanks for the explication.
AdoramaTV, you guys seriously always have the BEST tutorials with great visual explanations! A big, fat thank you to all of the awesome photographers making these happen❤❤❤
Thanks, Gavin!!
The whole Adorama TV team really is the best!
Thanks for sharing Gavin 👏👏
Very good info for us beginners
Mr. Gavin thanks for what you do, you’re great man, you have all the skills as a techer and in another hand all the knowledge of a professional photographer, and have humble way to transmit. If you think in make a Year Full course i’ll be in without doubt
Love the social distancing joke, hahahah! You are the best Gavin!
This is great Gavin, thank you!
Very effective demonstration. Adding the images reinforced the technique to the creative element. Well done.
I understood how light falloff works, I just watched the video because I knew that Gavin would show in an easily understandable way how to mount a flash hidden inside an umbrella, and I've always wondered where the flash was hidden in umbrella rain shots. :)
Another top tutorial Gavin, always inspiring us to go out and create 👍
Good to see Fern back again 👍. Awesome as alway Gav
Thanks Tim. It was great to get Fern back in my studio, it's been far to long!
Great, understandable explanation of the inverse square law!
Most entertaining! thank you:)
Always outstanding information Gavin.
I always learn something from a Gavin video. Good job.
Good idea Gavin,thank's
Wow, this is amazing
Great informative visual with the tape...and awesome results with the umbrella! Especially loved her sitting on the floor and the leaves!
Thanks Jim. The leaves were a bit of an after thought but added to the fun of the shoot 👍
That was great! Thank you.
Thank you, a creative way to explain
Brilliant, Sir Gavinhoe!
You are my inspiration. Thank you Gavin!
Loved your way to shoot. Simple and open
Beautiful
This was so helpful you have no idea thank you so much for making these videos
once again a very interesting and instructive video. thank you from Germany
Brilliant Gavin, easy to understand and thoroughly enjoyable to watch. Beautfiul images too. Enjoyed your dof live stream the other day too mate 👍👍😊
Thanks for the kind words Paul and I'm glad the Olympus live stream was as enjoyable for you as for me 😊
Thanks Gavin. Great demonstration of light falloff. Sometimes a clear simple visualisation like this just makes it click for those who weren't sure. Using light falloff it's easy to get a black background for a low key type shot in just about any location.
Thanks Tim. Making a black background out of thin air was one of the very first lighting tricks I learned a long, LONG time back and I still use the same technique today 😉
Great lesson, Thankyou! :)
I always enjoy your videos and your sense of humor.
As always - practical and clear explanation with great photos. I always look forward to see what you do next. In this world of madness right now, it's always fun to forget about it all. Thank you from a fellow Brit.
Thanks Mark. It's certainly crazy times but I'm doing my best to stick to the ever shifting rules... go to work, DON'T go to work!
The Best Gavin
Good video. Fern did a great job. Dress and umbrella were excellent choices.
Thanks Edward. Fern did an amazing job with her styling and posing, I just gave her an umbrella and pressed the shutter 😊
Amazing explanation!
Great video...
Thanks for a great video
Very interesting. Thanks!
great stuff enjoyed this always loving the inspiration and ideas! Wonder about your light stand as I cant seem find good price stand thats more than 2 meters as I need more height for tall models in heels!
really good explanation of light fall-off. Cheers
Light fall-off just in time for Fall, nice one 😉👍
Thanks, I hadn't though of that. It's autumn where I am 😉
Really helpful. Thanks!
Superb information for beginners and experienced shooters. Thank you, Professor!
Thanks Patrick. It's been a while since I mapped out light fall off, so it was a handy reminder for me too 😁
Great video! 🙏🏻
Great presentation, Thanks Gavin, Fern and Sam!
Thanks for the shout out to Fern and Sam. As I've said before Alan, I'm just the button pusher 😉
@@GavinHoey Well it helps to have a good team it makes work easier. Being the button pusher requires a sense of when to push it. Have a Good Weekend
thank gavin, very nice video. but what will happend, if we add long softbox light modifier in the 2 extra flash ?
Very good video Gavin. Explained & demonstrated with your inimitable style. Aided & abetted by our lovely mutual friend, Fern Dack. 😷 I'm smiling under this mask.
Thanks Chris. It was great to see Fern back in the studio 😁
wow a great Gavin Hoey video again :)
can someone tell me on which umbrellamount the flash is installed?