#Studio & Lighting
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@umbral whale @charred seal @thorn aspen
you guys are the only ones i know that shoot studio
feel free to at more people in here
Sup
studio and lighting yap chat
I mean here’s this one, there’s also an umbrella light behind me on the right there
your lights are pty far 
are these full body shots?
well, she is squatting but still
Yeah it was, hang on let me forward the pic
Thanks
It was my gap project, I kept the same lighting throughout those black and white shots
So it’s the same for my other two
i had some light boxes i used for this lil guy
i was so worried shooting a lil baby for the first time
YEAH finally a studio channeeel
you used flash?
ok i could not find a pic of how i set things up while shooting
but this is what i have
very cheap, inside is reflective silver, comes with a defuser you can velcro on, and the mesh thing as well, inside is these LED hexagons that are constantly on & you can change temperature on them and brightness
so i had this within like a 1 meter - half a meter to the baby at a lower light
i used a window for some natural light, and this as a fill
i was working in a prty tight living room, - i went to their home to do this
and yes, i was also scared to handle a newborn
but what i did was the usual, my research, gather some poses & props, and i showed it to the mom and asked her to pose the newborn for me
doing other research, its mostly women that do newborn photography, & they've been shooting a long time, they know how to swaddle the baby and pose them
ooooh okkk i seee
also learned that babys are very durable
so you dont need to be as gentle as you think, but ofc i was as gentle as possible

so inside there is led
yes
i think its cool thats its not flash
for the baby
idk
feel like constatly flash flashing not good
yee, from the research i did, most people said flash was fine 
but i did not use anyway
you do shoot in restaurent too right
yes
lol yee its nice
it has been a little while, some life stuff happening, but i'm getting back into it now
did a shoot for a good friend, (they legally got merried) and for payment i just asked him to take me to a restaurant, so kinda did some food 
*legal wedding? *

mornin KQ
yeeeee
hey cool
just did a quick studio shoot todayyy
looking the pictures rnnn also the styling is on point
txxxx
and the models a pro too 
knowing how to pose and not having to pose them is so nice
yes thisss
also putting good music helps to
i will have hard time to choose 10 pic
what is culling?
deleting the bad photos and picking the good photos
it does it automatically for you ?? how does it work?
it does not delete them, so Aftershot - will rate them 1 -5 stars
and you can preview all the 1 -3 stars before finishing
and you can directly export to lightroom / other software once its done
interesting
and after you can choose to delete the not so good ones if you want
okok
i know that personally i always have hard time to choose ect
can be nice to atleast try
its really nice for weddings, gets rid of all the blurry stuff right away. and if you have like 7 similar pictures, it will look for closed eyes, or blurry stuff, and it will pick the best photo out of the 7
i think she will love it
and she hates lik picking the pictures ecttt
yes too much
i made a yt vid https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qN5685XCfA&ab_channel=Creativgi
gear used
Sony A7III
Sigma 24-70
Team
Models : @alexane_houle / @lsnne_
Studio : @7studio_
Film Making & Set assistant : @KanoaProd
Stylist : @thanhia__h
website : creativgi.fr
sick
thanks!! had so much fun
question for yall
if you have considered something
working with people that are not models and absolutely dont know how to pose
i've always just used refferance images to guide them
but i still dont feel very effective
so i'm just like, why dont i just take modeling classes, that way i can be more effective at posting ppl 
do you try to show yourself the pose to them ?
no i'm bad at posing myself 😂
ahahahahaha
OK
check out this guy i love the way he make his model comfortable and help them pose
yessssss
i would say practice yourself so you can be more at ease to help people posing
thats what i do ahahah
yee gonna stand infront of the mirror and try stuff
i'm thinking of starting a business of shooting corporate professional headshots
so the poses dont need to be crazy
poses will be boring overall i think
i think there is just good money in this type of thing, i'm gonna find out
less exciting
will do models for fun too get more creative

personally right now i am trying to focus on Polas & Close Up beauty
not sure how to price the beauty one
are you shooting for people or businesses?
people
hmm
does your pricing from other shoots not apply as well?
are you also doing any makeup/wardrobe?
right now my rate is 150e/h but i feel like i should not price by hour but project idk
And for the beauty close up i dont do makeup, the style i want & propose is natural so the person bring her stuff
definitely, lots of competition thouugh
and you have to compete with bad people becuase clients don't know what good lighting is
this seems resonable
but if those shoots are quick
you could charge a flat ammount
maybe 300
or 500
if not more
yah, not sure how i will market or find clients in general yet
payed ads are always an option but dont want to start out in the negatives right away
for me that's why i started focusing less on real estate, i have no interest in competing with 18yo who just got a T7i lol
at least headshots are alittle higher in terms of barrier to entry
i think i'll cold call local businesses, see how it goes
good idea
maybe linkedin?
yee, gotta get this going soon
i made a bts on recent shoot !!
i wanted a hard light, which i never did until now
& pardon my english AHAH i tried m y best
Hello! I am getting more into my home studio lighting so I am gonna poke in here from time to time. I have a lights that I have got for relatively cheap including some old Bowens Esprit flashes that I can't find a trigger to actually work for so I have to use them as optical slaves to actually work. Currently playing around with some shutter drag stuff to get ready for some senior portraits I have coming up.
nice!! feel free to post results when u have them 🙂
Will do for sure, waiting to get one of my friends in to do a paintball player shoot since I can't find any examples of it online
was gonna do tomorrow but we both had stuff come up
The fovitec strip box on the right
I was getting some bad spill from the LED on the left as you can probably see so I when I set it back up I need to make sure that isn't there but I don't have a grid for that one unfortunately
here's a goofy test of myself to test the movement I want to capture
this is reallyyy coool
Thanks!
Lasha told me to come here
let me just review the channel and ill be on topic
this is the place to be @celest maple

do you have a meter? i watch several studio photography vid, some people use it
I don't
I wish I did because that is pretty overexposed on my arm and I brought it down a bit in Lightroom
ah yeah but if havent told me i wouldnt have notice it's not that bad
me too i dont use a meter
i try n retry and fix progressively lol
Yea, it's the nice part about my space. It's basically a big shed with no light so I can play with all sorts of small setups
Here's a few setups I've played around with.
I've also started painting my own backdrops
i wanted to hand paint a backdrop similar to yours but ended up buying one
but the brush mark are more visible on yours
which feels more "authentic" & gives character to the image
yeaa i kinda messed up when doing the top layer haha i used way too much paint especially in the upper right of the first pic. that is down at the bottom in the actual shot I used but it was my first one and it was more for learning how to do it.
my next ones are going to be 9x12s
Setup for a shoot with my friend today. Doing some shutter drag stuff and then will be tearing down to do some headshots for him as well. Once the roll up is closed it's almost perfectly dark in my space.
the monitor there is for tethered capture as well
hii guys !! i want to use natural direct sun light for a shoot and i was wondering if you think i should diffuse with a white scrim or diffuser or not really, i dont want to much hard shadow but i like how the skin pops??
the inspo i have
I mean if you have the capacity bring a scrim, take one with one without. That shot has really hard shadows on the eyelashes that are making the eye pop to me and really brings out the specularity of the glitter so I think you'd probably want no diffusion for that exact same look
Pop up portrait setup testing
love the dog ears 
The idea is to take this to local markets and fairs and do inexpensive family portraits with printing of like 5x7s. I always see people selling their prints but always thought it'd be a fun idea to do portraits
Thanks! He is 50/50 German shepherd pit and his ears never fully popped up. We call them his hat because when he's tired the will fall to the sides more like he has taken off his hat
i thought about something like that too! do you print on location?
I would yea, I have a Canon Pro 10 printer
Thinking 5x7's would be the perfect size for that as well
I have also started using a Canon Selphy CP1500 to do 4x6's during events and sports. I slap a label that has my website and booking inquiry page as a QR code on the back, put into a nice sleeve and deliver to the person.
this is a nice idea
are u photographer full time?
personally i feel a bit stuck with lightning at the moment; i have my go to but i feel like it's the same pics over and. over, dont know what to do..
that's cool, are you able to get good margins on that?
it's a new thing I am doing so at the moment, no lol it's all loss. I am hoping it pays off in the long run though.
Nope, I actually haven't made any money with photography in some time. Super serious hobbyist who is trying to move to pro
oh, makes sense as an investment tho
i wanted to setup a tripod and a chair in the main street of my city and take portraits of people but your idea is just much better since having an actual booth gives many advantages
Yea I figured doing a tethered laptop shoot, let people see it, I know there will be people there looking to spend money on something. Feels like a good way to get people a taste of what a real shoot with me would be like as well.
tethering is the best way to do this, and also since you set up everything you can get perfect light
what's the price gonna be?
That's kind of where I am stuck haha
Was thinking $40 for a 5x7
but also that seems steep
i'm no good at pricing but you can get clients with anything if you have good marketing
40 dollars for a family portrait with professional retouch and high quality printing sounds good
Yea, just hope the people see it that way as well
definitely could fall into the "my nephew has a camera" or "i can take this with my phone"
with this setup will u use both flash light and extorior light
you may want to stop families walking and throw in some compliments about their mood or something
Flash for sure
can't fall into that if you put up prints around the booth to showcase the work you do
it depends on the niche that goes to these fairs
yea i know my local one isn't the fancy type haha but there others throughout that I could go to that would definitely be a bit more willing
if there are pretty rich people market is as a premium portrait that gives a sense of importance to the family and it can be passed thru generations yadda yadda yadda and if you have normal people market it as something more sentimental rather than important to be seen
that's how i would go about it tho
i don't know if it could work in your specific case
I mean there is a studio in our town that has multiple photographers at it with the top guy charging $7k+ per image
7k per image is crazy
i mean he stays busy
how is that possible gosh
he does high fashion stuff mainly
regine that's us
i'm actually doing a lighting event at his studio on the 30th
Godox and models and stuff
that's cool
coool!!!
so gonna hopefully get some decent portfolio shots out of
a good way to be discovered
you should advertise online too!!
i do actually haha have been running FB and Google ads for a bit and have literally 0 conversions from either so far
what are the ads?
maybe do some ig reels to have organic reach cost nothing
just a little bit of editing but yeah
ig reels are cheap seen imo in fashion
just my portfolio stuff rn, with some chatgpt generated ad copy stuff
what do u meann
nothing wrong with doing them
i don't think ig reels will help anyone get discovered by brands that do cool projects
i'm new tho so i could be wrong
i feel like the high clientele hangs out in the networking space of "i know someone" and that's what a photographer should look up to
i spoke to several photographer here in paris & some tell me it's tru connections & some tell me it's thanks too social media
feel like it really depends...
if the brand is more media oriented then an inflencer photographer is best for visibility
i've been wanting to dm brands but i mainly shoot faces
word of mouth is so difficult to achieve tho
the thing i did is go to stores and shoot products in tfp
true but it's honestly harder to get your first few clients to spread that word
offer them the photos
but product with ai generated content thats crazy work
noo, not ai generated
yea product is about to be a brutal market
it sounds so crazy to me, my friend is photographer she lost deal because the company replace the photographer with ai content lol
it's never gonna be brutal, who paid before is gonna pay again to be seen, no big brand is gonna switch to ai
a lottt of them starts too !!! i promise u
i think brands will go back once the ai fails them and lets them lose income
my day is in tech, they already are
a brand published an ai model in vogue august
i don't remember which one tho
it was really controversial
it is not necessarily the ai, but people, they hate it, it feel unauthentic
yeah i saw, sad moment honestly for such a big mag
it was guess
well vogue has no fault in this, they get paid so they can't protest
it can be seen as an act of war from guess
cause ai? really?
it's really bad content
and you can clearly see it's ai
why go cheap
in fashion they are gonna fail, atleast in the editorial world
i mean for product photos
i'm shooting one tomorrow and ai could never do what i do
at the same i feel like if we dont know how ai work, it will be hard for us the compete. some photographer do mix media both ai & photography i feel like i'ts cool approach
i think fashion and people will be near impossible outside of backgrounds and locations
product is in danger until the consumer is stupid, when the consumer wakes up and stops this nonsense we will go back to good ol' photographers
it is cool until it makes a mess and you need to start over
then it gets irritating
ai is cool as a tool to enchance, not a tool to create
the fact that everything is train on photographers real pictures and you would never know them
crazzzzy
that's also scary to me lol, imagine how many photos can ai ingest in a day
such a knowledge that'll take a photographer an entire life cycle to master
i know right
but ai can't make art
it can't create
it just remixes
artists that feel threatened by ai don't really create
art is about expressions and ai can't express anything
anyone got any tips for improvement on these? I just had single light at 45* in front with a large softbox and grid, and a reflector for shadow fill
I mean outside of more lights I feel like these are great. On the third image maybe upping the power or changing the angle in some way just a bit as the blue on the collar is a little darker than I think it should be.
Personally I think just even light across the whole shots is the only real improvement but with what you were using these are great
Got these for review
people talk really good about the v series of godox, i wonder if it's really a big difference worth the extra cost even for a cheap setup
@frank ember I got to really use them today, I used the V100 as a fill and the V1 Pro to light the backdrop/smoke have. They seem pretty great for the light use I put them through.
V100 is nice because it's a 100 WS light so doing that math with the AD400Pro II is easy
V1 Pro is the older LCD style display so it feels really dated to use now compared to all of the new Godox stuff for sure but it synced with the trigger and did what I needed it to do
2 lights and reflector
my first time doing real model shoot
pretty happy with the results
much photoshop was required to extend the backdrop and hide my reflector/lights lol
this looks cool but I think the shadows might look a bit too harsh
Are these the same backdrop with different lighting to change the color?
no different backdrop
hi guys i've been shooting a lot lately, will try post some results and setup!!
any of yall have experience mixing flash with christmas tree lights? I am trying to figure out the best way to make it look like the light is coming from the tree without completely blasting the tree away. Thinking doin a comp may be best
yeah probably just comp, any meaningful amount of flash is going to blow it away
does anyone know what kind of light is used here
no but that's very cool
Likely just a flash or constant with a snoot/projector that has a starburst gobo and smoke
Looks like they are putting it up by the window to make it look like the sun creating a sun star effect
yeah its constant cause this is from a video. cool thanks, ill look in to that
looks too perfect to be made with light imo
I think that any flash overpowers the light, you could try with continuous lights
i don't actually know how it's made, that's just my opinion as someone learning about light
i need advice about shooting flash, i'm gonna shoot in an urban enviroment with good ambient separation, i need to shoot flash and i want to achieve the fashion editorial look, i use a speedlite, should i use my reflective umbrella or should i just place the speedlite on a tripod and shoot with direct flash?
Are you looking for the direct flash look? Do you need the wider spread of light? Are you shooting in direct sunlight and need to fill shadows? A speedlight in daylight is only going to really act as a fill as it likely won't be strong enough to make a big difference in direct sun.
Do you have any inspo shots that you are trying to emulate? It'd be easier to give advice if I knew what you are actually looking to do.
i'm actually experimenting, i wanted something like this but the model has dark skin and i don't know how i need to use the flash and how to expose for dark skin, i want to create something like the pic i added but the location is quite different, i'll try to send a screenshot
this is where imma be shooting
That's definitely using either HSS or an ND filter to darken the background and capture the flash without being overexposed.
looks like it could even be 2 flashes or the sun is doing the hair light and the flash is actually either even with or lower than the model's face could be on camera with diffusion as well
also also, may not even be flash but a large reflector and and ND filter
actually, it's tough to say for sure, but there it seems like there are 2 lights based on how the shadows are falling on her face and the highlights on the railing. Basically what I am saying is there are a lot of ways to get this look, the biggest being getting the background to not be blown out is either going to be be HSS flash or ND filter and hard flash
doesnt relaly need to be ND filter or HSS does it? pretty sure like F/8 or 9 could have achieved this
idk maybe im underestimating
anyway, at least an ND filter won't be needed, HSS should suffice
in full sun the bridge would still be pretty bright
it does look pretty heavily edited though too
i agree with this
@balmy blade @worn mirage I did get some similar results to the pictures, I shot at f20 though 🌚
these are unedited straight out of camera
this is with another model but the same flash style as the inspo
@frank ember glad you got the look you were after they look pretty good, curious though, what was the SS for you to get blur in the 2nd shot?
there's no blur in the pictures, I shot at 1/200th
it kinda looks like that because it's dark probably
yea
I'll check now on my computer and see if its blurry
I hope not lol
i mean it just looks like motion blur on his foot
Looks pretty cool! With some nice edits the results will be great
the photos looks FIRE
congrats @frank ember !!!
i did a shoot today, and i need either get a bigger softbox to light my bg or have another strobe to light it properly bc rn too short
this looks so good! I love the way you use strobes, it looks so heavenly and perfect for a cream ad
tysm!
thank you, I don't think I'm gonna edit the colors much but I'm gonna remove interferences to make it magazine perfection
thankgs!!!!
it's really my go to setup i dont think much about it now it works for me:)
Hmmm backread the entire form just now 😅 , I have some questions that are more open ended because I'm not even sure what I should be asking:
I've been finding myself in a bit of a rut as far as my portrait work goes recently and feel like its just amateurish and lacking, but I feel like I've covered a lot of material in regards to mechanical skill with working with lights and my camera.
I'm not really sure how to articulate it, but I feel like my work can be performed by anyone with a good kit, lights, and 3 hours of YouTube tutorials.
I'm thinking what I need to do is do more research on what elements brings certain looks and moods into a photograph, and honestly I'm starting to think I'm lacking in my eye for composition and framing.
Additionally, I've thought about moving to full frame or getting a f1.2 lense, but a big part of me says that surely there is more skill expression in the realm of portraits at f/4+ retaining information and clarity and background for location shoots.
I haven't really been able to find anyone locally in my college club or events that are passionate for portraiture and then remembered I could probably find somewhere to ask here so here I am.
Work on my ig @manic bison
Or if you want me to post here but I didnt want to bomb the thread with images
You do cosplay mainly?
Yep, I have a studio shoot booked in July to try something different, but my kit is a bunch of heavy tripods speed lights and softboxes
So
Studio lighting questions
We have this kinda set up
With all these lights that are all color changeable and controllable individually
What's missing from this? My thoughts were like....framing back lights? Or like a soft back light of some kind
We have these lil floor spotlights that are super bright which I was thinking of pointing at the back wall but the trellis makes it shoot all these shadows everywhere cause they're so bright. I have a soft box but no light in it. Trying to figure out like.... What do i need for this to be a solid enough studio space. How do people handle back drops usually? Is it just a huge canvas roll?
Also what kinda lens did you shoot on for these?



