Category: How to light
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Asymmetrical three-lights setup for Medium Shots
Most of the times, I like symmetrical lighting without rim. Recently I wanted to experiment with an asymmetrical lighting with rim for a medium shot portrait. This scheme seems to work well with the rim switched off too.
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Hard light for beauty?
It is often taught that soft light is the prime choice for beauty shots and to conceal skin flaws. Actually, the very opposite may be true, especially if combined with (again, counterintuitively) high-contrast post-processing.
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Ecco un modo per fare ritratti su sfondo bianco
Esistono molti tipi di ritratti e molti tipi di bianco :-) La mia “ricetta” seguente è nata dal volere un ritratto luminoso e dai vincoli posti dalla mia attrezzatura (una sola softbox, su un totale di quattro lampeggiatori).
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Simulating natural sunlight filtering through a window…
Here is how I tried to simulate sunlight filtering through the trees for a still life photograph
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Dramatic light for somebody sitting in a room
Aside some editing, this effect was obtained with a large Elinchrom Rotalux softbox 90x110cm with its (Rota)grid placed just in front of Francesco S., very low and throwing light parallel to the floor. A little bit of filling was give by a reflector illuminating a far white wall behind him.
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Quick lighting set-up
You have a model in your studio: he wants a quick portrait. Quick, here, does not only mean rapid to set-up, but also tolerant enough to his not-so-perfect positioning. A coloured background, moreover, does not necessarily require a separate light. So this is what I did: a beauty-dish (with central reflector) in front of him…
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How to light a scientist…
How to light a scientist… or at least someone who pretends so ;-) I used: a white wall one green-gelled Elinchrom reflector with flags, camera left, angled, set at minimum (1) one red-gelled Elinchrom reflector with flags, camera left, pointing at the subject, set at minimum (1) one gridded beauty dish, Elinchrom, set at minimum,…
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A white wall, not just a plain white background
My white walls are roughly textured, so I decided to play along with that. Instead of lighting it to make the wall disappear into a uniform white, I tried to get a beautiful shadow. I illuminated Francesco S. with a large rectangular softbox, vertically oriented, placed in front of him at about 1.5 m. Also,…
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Light scheme for “Back from Hell”
Camera: Sony NEX-5 Lens: Sigma 30mm f/2.8 Elinchrom 90x110cm gridded softbox Elinchrom 44cm gridded beauty dish Silver reflector Grey muslin background
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Light scheme for “pain”
Both the 90×110 Elinchrom softbox and the snoot were gridded. The background was a light grey muslin.