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Can anyone help me figure out this lighting?
Hey guys so I have a client coming up that wants super bright and fun photos that will be shot in a studio and was wondering if anyone knew how to achieve this lighting... I will be shooting in studio. I'm thinking large umbrella but not sure.. I've never lit like this before. Need a very nylon-esque feel to the photos.     Jul 11 15 04:34 pm Link It looks like a lightly diffused bare reflector right above or to the left or right of camera lens. The lighting is emulating on camera flash. Jul 11 15 06:04 pm Link You have at least two different lighting setups on those samples. Do a search for "Terry Richardson lighting style", you will find plenty of tutorials. The basic premise is: light source big or small, above and pretty much on axis with the lens, the white bg is then lighten on post. The second set up is lighting the bg independently, the bg lights are flagged to avoid spilling onto the models and the models are lit with very large source, maybe a parabolic source + reflector. Someone with more experience may correct me if that's not the case. Jul 11 15 06:43 pm Link You can also try over exposing the flash. When using strobes, what ever your light meter is telling you over expose by 1/3 or 2/3 with your aperture. Jul 11 15 07:33 pm Link Look for clues in the light reflections on the cheek, chin, and shiny shoes. I'm going with the "Terry Richardson Lighting" theory. He crams one or two speedlights close to the lens to cast a fairly sharp light while leaving minimal or no shadows behind the subject. It's a kind of a quality version of what happens when people use small, cheap pocket cameras with the flash close to the lens. The effect is sort of like a ring light, but sharper. Jul 11 15 08:24 pm Link The studio I'm using I believe only has softboxes, would you recommend setting two up on their side of the camera and taking the diffusion material out and shooting that way for the sharp shadows and large bright foreground? Jul 12 15 05:37 am Link RickyMichiels wrote: To match the lighting you mention? Probably not. But if you do, use only one. There is only one shadow on the sample images you posted. That means one light source. And it's a very hard shadow so that means a very small light source or one that is placed pretty far away. Jul 12 15 05:48 am Link benrayner.com Jul 12 15 08:41 am Link i would start here  Jul 12 15 09:14 am Link Shei P wrote: Ben Rayner is the photographer. i would start there. Jul 12 15 11:46 am Link Mark Laubenheimer wrote: Actually it all probably started here, like 20yrs ago Jul 12 15 01:40 pm Link Shei P wrote: probably.....except that image is from 2005 Jul 12 15 01:56 pm Link Mark Laubenheimer wrote: True...but where do you think Ben it from? Jul 12 15 02:19 pm Link Shei P wrote: ah...the history of a photograph. Jul 12 15 02:27 pm Link A long time ago a tried the TR lighting. I used a bare strobe and I over exposed by 1/3. Here is my cheap attempt:   Jul 12 15 10:56 pm Link The image title "top stitch" looks like a ring flash. Jul 12 15 11:11 pm Link Thank you guys, really appreciate the help! Jul 13 15 05:23 am Link RickyMichiels wrote: Those are all shot with the flash on a bracket on the camera except for the last one which what shot with the flash in the hotshoe and the camera turned sideways. Jul 13 15 11:11 am Link Shei P wrote: The same place Terry Richardson took it from - the thousands of people who shot with built-in flashes before they ever picked up a camera. Or really, flashes of any kind. Jul 13 15 11:13 am Link Wilde One wrote: It's not. There's a shadow below the dress. Jul 13 15 11:15 am Link Wilde One wrote: it kinda looks that way but its not. Jul 13 15 12:25 pm Link RickyMichiels wrote: Try using just one, standing with your head and camera just in front of it so there is light coming over your shoulders on the left, right, and over the top of your head. Jul 13 15 12:32 pm Link |
