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SmokingStrobes

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Glamour Lighting Setups

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Starring Fredau

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Onelight Clamshell

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Hey fellow photographer, how's it going?

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I'm Michael Zelbel.

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Today I would like to show you a onelight setup.

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A set up with just one speedlight

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and it will look like you used many more lights

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and you are shooting in a very posh studio.

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but you actually don't.

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Now what we are going to have a look at today is

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a classic clamshell lighting.

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This clamshell light makes for a look which a lot of people really love

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and currently it's getting very very popular again in all sorts of magazines.

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So typically this is done with three to four light sources

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when you are shooting professionally in a studio.

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But we will use just exactly one and it will look just as fine.

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Our subject today model Fredau.

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And she is ideal for that.

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She is not only looking stunningly beautiful,

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but she is also someone who is pretty skinny, very skinny

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and she has got strong facial features.

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And that is ideal for us to demonstrate

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the quality of this particular lighting set up.

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Because one of the qualities is,

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that you do not have a lot of fall off to the sides

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and to the back over here.

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So if you have a model at a 45 degree angle

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you see the nose is correctly exposed

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while the ear and the hair which are much more in the background

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and much more way off to the side, they are still correctly exposed.

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There is no big fall off which

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basically means you can shoot models in

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strange poses and strange angles.

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You can shoot models with interesting facial features,

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and you don't end up with ugly shadows,

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like an ugly nose shadow or anything.

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It's a very good and flexible sort of lighting set up

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and at the same time it's still three dimensional.

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Now if you have a look underneath her chin and over here at the cheek

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there are some sorts of shadows.

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So it does cause a dimension, it does read.

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And over here you've got highlights on the nose

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but it's all so subtle that, you know, its just beautiful.

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It will never destract no matter what pose she is going into.

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I see over here is a reflection on her hair

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that is just awesome.

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So let's dive into it, let's have a look on how it is actually done.

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So we have a white wall in the background

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and it doesn't need to be a nice wall.

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In our case we just used a wall

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which was roughly painted white,

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there is a lot of cracks in there and there is no wall paper.

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But it really doesn't matter.

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The model is standing in front of the wall

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and the main light is coming through a big

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shoot through umbrella above just front above model.

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It's pointing towards her face at 45 degrees.

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And as a light source I used a speedlight

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with guide number 58 on one quarter of its power.

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The fill light is coming from a silver reflector,

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Silver, because I want to have a lot of fill.

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As much fill as possible. The reflector is roughly at 45 degrees

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pointing towards her face.

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And the angle of this reflector will determine

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how much or not so much fill light we actually have.

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So it's worth experimenting a bit.

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In my case I had the light stand over here

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and the reflector was on the lower end

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laying on the table.

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And the upper end was leaning against the light stand

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so that it kept staying in this angle.

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The camera is shooting through the crack between

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the umbrella and the reflector.

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My camera was set to ISO 320.

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The ISO is a bit higher,

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because I didn't want to stress this one single speed light too much,

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which is delivering all the light for the scene.

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And f/8 to have a little bit of sharpness

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to show you really how the light is behaving

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in and around her face.

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The distances are very small

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so this is a set up which fits into a very tiny small space

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as a model is just 3 feet away from the wall

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and the main light is just at 7 feet hight,

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on a seven feet light stand.

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That is pretty compact and it is really good.

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One quality is for instance that you don't need

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the extra light for the wall.

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Of course there are shadows happening

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because there's one strong main light and that is sitting on the subject

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and she is throwing shadows.

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But shadows are below, they are going down.

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They are not really attached to her body.

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So it's always looking great, alrighty.

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So that's it for today.

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I hope you will have fun with this lighting set up.

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Try it out. Click the light button and also the plus one button on this video

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come back next time.

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I wish you a lot of fun with this particular lighting set up.

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I wish you good light.