WEBVTT 00:00:00.710 --> 00:00:02.335 SmokingStrobes 00:00:02.335 --> 00:00:03.837 Glamour Lighting Setups 00:00:07.672 --> 00:00:10.732 Starring Fredau 00:00:10.732 --> 00:00:15.797 Onelight Clamshell 00:00:16.045 --> 00:00:17.670 Hey fellow photographer, how's it going? 00:00:17.670 --> 00:00:18.859 I'm Michael Zelbel. 00:00:18.859 --> 00:00:21.547 Today I would like to show you a onelight setup. 00:00:21.547 --> 00:00:23.673 A set up with just one speedlight 00:00:23.673 --> 00:00:27.922 and it will look like you used many more lights 00:00:27.922 --> 00:00:29.733 and you are shooting in a very posh studio. 00:00:29.733 --> 00:00:31.234 but you actually don't. 00:00:31.485 --> 00:00:33.733 Now what we are going to have a look at today is 00:00:33.733 --> 00:00:35.983 a classic clamshell lighting. 00:00:35.983 --> 00:00:39.296 This clamshell light makes for a look which a lot of people really love 00:00:39.296 --> 00:00:43.985 and currently it's getting very very popular again in all sorts of magazines. 00:00:43.985 --> 00:00:47.547 So typically this is done with three to four light sources 00:00:47.547 --> 00:00:50.547 when you are shooting professionally in a studio. 00:00:50.547 --> 00:00:54.674 But we will use just exactly one and it will look just as fine. 00:00:54.674 --> 00:00:57.486 Our subject today model Fredau. 00:00:57.486 --> 00:01:00.485 And she is ideal for that. 00:01:00.485 --> 00:01:03.050 She is not only looking stunningly beautiful, 00:01:03.487 --> 00:01:08.426 but she is also someone who is pretty skinny, very skinny 00:01:08.426 --> 00:01:11.801 and she has got strong facial features. 00:01:13.200 --> 00:01:17.246 And that is ideal for us to demonstrate 00:01:17.246 --> 00:01:19.747 the quality of this particular lighting set up. 00:01:19.747 --> 00:01:21.498 Because one of the qualities is, 00:01:21.498 --> 00:01:24.622 that you do not have a lot of fall off to the sides 00:01:24.622 --> 00:01:26.247 and to the back over here. 00:01:26.247 --> 00:01:31.871 So if you have a model at a 45 degree angle 00:01:31.871 --> 00:01:33.935 you see the nose is correctly exposed 00:01:33.935 --> 00:01:37.748 while the ear and the hair which are much more in the background 00:01:37.767 --> 00:01:41.142 and much more way off to the side, they are still correctly exposed. 00:01:41.142 --> 00:01:44.142 There is no big fall off which 00:01:44.142 --> 00:01:48.955 basically means you can shoot models in 00:01:48.955 --> 00:01:50.641 strange poses and strange angles. 00:01:50.641 --> 00:01:53.017 You can shoot models with interesting facial features, 00:01:53.017 --> 00:01:55.457 and you don't end up with ugly shadows, 00:01:55.457 --> 00:01:57.708 like an ugly nose shadow or anything. 00:01:57.708 --> 00:02:01.707 It's a very good and flexible sort of lighting set up 00:02:01.707 --> 00:02:06.143 and at the same time it's still three dimensional. 00:02:06.143 --> 00:02:10.080 Now if you have a look underneath her chin and over here at the cheek 00:02:10.080 --> 00:02:12.644 there are some sorts of shadows. 00:02:12.644 --> 00:02:16.457 So it does cause a dimension, it does read. 00:02:16.708 --> 00:02:19.520 And over here you've got highlights on the nose 00:02:19.520 --> 00:02:23.896 but it's all so subtle that, you know, its just beautiful. 00:02:23.896 --> 00:02:27.770 It will never destract no matter what pose she is going into. 00:02:27.770 --> 00:02:30.020 I see over here is a reflection on her hair 00:02:30.020 --> 00:02:32.082 that is just awesome. 00:02:32.082 --> 00:02:37.895 So let's dive into it, let's have a look on how it is actually done. 00:02:37.895 --> 00:02:41.082 So we have a white wall in the background 00:02:41.082 --> 00:02:43.020 and it doesn't need to be a nice wall. 00:02:43.020 --> 00:02:44.895 In our case we just used a wall 00:02:44.895 --> 00:02:46.896 which was roughly painted white, 00:02:46.896 --> 00:02:49.584 there is a lot of cracks in there and there is no wall paper. 00:02:49.584 --> 00:02:51.710 But it really doesn't matter. 00:02:51.710 --> 00:02:54.710 The model is standing in front of the wall 00:02:54.960 --> 00:02:57.334 and the main light is coming through a big 00:02:57.334 --> 00:03:01.897 shoot through umbrella above just front above model. 00:03:01.897 --> 00:03:05.584 It's pointing towards her face at 45 degrees. 00:03:05.913 --> 00:03:10.479 And as a light source I used a speedlight 00:03:10.479 --> 00:03:13.976 with guide number 58 on one quarter of its power. 00:03:14.226 --> 00:03:16.665 The fill light is coming from a silver reflector, 00:03:16.665 --> 00:03:19.354 Silver, because I want to have a lot of fill. 00:03:19.354 --> 00:03:24.416 As much fill as possible. The reflector is roughly at 45 degrees 00:03:24.416 --> 00:03:26.477 pointing towards her face. 00:03:26.477 --> 00:03:30.041 And the angle of this reflector will determine 00:03:30.041 --> 00:03:34.291 how much or not so much fill light we actually have. 00:03:34.291 --> 00:03:35.853 So it's worth experimenting a bit. 00:03:35.601 --> 00:03:38.414 In my case I had the light stand over here 00:03:38.414 --> 00:03:41.165 and the reflector was on the lower end 00:03:41.165 --> 00:03:42.353 laying on the table. 00:03:42.353 --> 00:03:44.790 And the upper end was leaning against the light stand 00:03:44.790 --> 00:03:48.352 so that it kept staying in this angle. 00:03:48.852 --> 00:03:52.664 The camera is shooting through the crack between 00:03:52.664 --> 00:03:55.038 the umbrella and the reflector. 00:03:55.291 --> 00:03:58.165 My camera was set to ISO 320. 00:03:58.415 --> 00:03:59.852 The ISO is a bit higher, 00:03:59.363 --> 00:04:03.178 because I didn't want to stress this one single speed light too much, 00:04:03.178 --> 00:04:05.616 which is delivering all the light for the scene. 00:04:05.616 --> 00:04:09.990 And f/8 to have a little bit of sharpness 00:04:09.990 --> 00:04:12.052 to show you really how the light is behaving 00:04:12.052 --> 00:04:14.426 in and around her face. 00:04:14.678 --> 00:04:16.742 The distances are very small 00:04:16.742 --> 00:04:20.492 so this is a set up which fits into a very tiny small space 00:04:21.114 --> 00:04:23.118 as a model is just 3 feet away from the wall 00:04:23.118 --> 00:04:28.554 and the main light is just at 7 feet hight, 00:04:28.865 --> 00:04:30.243 on a seven feet light stand. 00:04:30.243 --> 00:04:33.804 That is pretty compact and it is really good. 00:04:33.804 --> 00:04:38.367 One quality is for instance that you don't need 00:04:38.367 --> 00:04:40.243 the extra light for the wall. 00:04:40.243 --> 00:04:43.867 Of course there are shadows happening 00:04:43.867 --> 00:04:49.039 because there's one strong main light and that is sitting on the subject 00:04:49.039 --> 00:04:50.226 and she is throwing shadows. 00:04:50.226 --> 00:04:53.538 But shadows are below, they are going down. 00:04:53.538 --> 00:04:55.289 They are not really attached to her body. 00:04:55.289 --> 00:04:58.538 So it's always looking great, alrighty. 00:04:58.538 --> 00:05:00.038 So that's it for today. 00:05:00.038 --> 00:05:02.413 I hope you will have fun with this lighting set up. 00:05:02.569 --> 00:05:07.319 Try it out. Click the light button and also the plus one button on this video 00:05:07.570 --> 00:05:08.881 come back next time. 00:05:08.881 --> 00:05:12.881 I wish you a lot of fun with this particular lighting set up. 00:05:12.881 --> 00:05:14.320 I wish you good light.