Angelus Complex wrote:
I still have one of my WL's.
I noticed you're using soft umbrellas, how come you have them turned backwards?

u can use umbrellas any which way as long as the subject is lit how u want. i often spin my umbrellas for different softness and amount.

Bill Mason Images wrote:

If you have a decent video camera it would handle the light level from the modeling lamps and you wouldn't need to have a shop light screwing with your white balance. I shoot low level with my Panasonic 100A on 12db gain and get great results. If you're going to spend time and money making a video, do it with the same quality you seem to put into your still photography.

Also, according to the kid in Jerry Maguire, the human head weighs eight pounds.

*looks around*

What?  I thought we were all taking turns making irrelevant posts now.

Safari Ben wrote:
Thank you Ransom!!  You have NO idea how much I've learned from reading through this thread!

I've done one two-light studio setup and and pretty much made it up as I went.  Reading this makes me want to learn more and try again.

Can't wait for the next lesson!!

Notice that you don't look through the camera.  Is that just a personal habit?  Do you do that for a specific reason or purpose?

I look at the EVF.

next lesson is on the 13th and 14th of September.   Workshop with me, Will Springfield and Bruce Talbot.  Only so much I'm willing to "give" away. 

JBPhoto wrote:
Slightly off topic....how did you light the girl with the smole coming out of her mouth?

Refer to the previous post.

David Scott wrote:
Did you need three lights in order to create the photo you wanted or could you have used less lights or some reflectors and gotten a similar result?  And are the two lights in back more for the background?

Make sure you go back and read the WHOLE thread.  Your questions have all been answered.

David Scott wrote:

thanks, i found it. missed it the first time through.  but still, could you have achieved that without the two lights back there with some other method or less lights?

It's possible to have done it with two lights and two reflectors.

Or two lights and one reflector (though increasingly more difficult)

D M M  wrote:
I just wanted to say that I think this is such a great, helpful thread. I can appriciate it even though I'm not a photographer (because maybe one day I'll find it relevant; you know, when I upgrade from my Holga-shooting ). Thank you, Ransom!

Agreed.

Farenell Photography wrote:

Agreed.

but you ARE a photographer

Gone Til  Novus-ember wrote:
but you ARE a photographer

Silly Ransom,

Just because I work a different way doesn't mean I can't appreciate how others do it completely different from me.

*condescendingly pats you on the head & then ducks to get out of the way to avoid the thrown heavily metal object that's coming in my direction*

Digitallure Photography wrote:
so...uhh, where can one get a background like that from?

That's been answered in the thread. Fabric stores.

AFox Faces wrote:

That's been answered in the thread. Fabric stores.

my bad, overlooked it

Digitallure Photography wrote:
so...uhh, where can one get a background like that from?

How much post processing and how long did it take to retouch?

Just normal skin retouching and it took about twenty minutes per picture.

Gone Til  Novus-ember wrote:

I look at the EVF.

next lesson is on the 13th and 14th of September.   Workshop with me, Will Springfield and Bruce Talbot.  Only so much I'm willing to "give" away. 

Yeah. Sucks too. I would so be there if you guys were doing it here in Talbot's home town...

I would bring cookies too.