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Background glow lighting techniques

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Whether it’s studio flash, speedlight, or strobe, I show how you can produce a high contrast visual art photograph.
How to produce a coloured background glow with flash strobe.
Studio lighting a still life subject to invoke mood narrative and emotion.
Using two studio flash units and a little ingenuity I’ll show how to create a classic art still life image.
Plus, some tips and tricks in Photoshop to help things along a little.
I'll use a Canon DSLR tethered into Capture One to show you the iterations from basic image to completed photograph.
In this video I take you step by step through the process of lighting a subject to bring out surface detail yet still have filled shadows.
How to control depth of field when using large apertures.
I'll use a Canon DSLR, tethered into Capture one software to show you how to capture your subject from basic image to completed photograph.
Studio flash strobe.
1x4’ Soft box soft box.
Canon 24-70mm f2.8 Lens.
Black card

14 Comments

@organicsnowman 4 years ago

Thank you, you are a great teacher!

@nobbiestyles 4 years ago

So simply clear. Superb teaching and with class.

@JoeCosentino 4 years ago

Thank you for another quick video

@bikalpa1234 4 years ago

Great as always. Thank you very much.

@RonTermeer 4 years ago

So fine to view your instructions. Taking the time no hurry and therefore verf comfortabele.

@tomservo3728 4 years ago

Excellent stuff, I just wish school teachers could be as engaging as you!

@hanssvedlund1381 4 years ago

Interesting and very instructive. Thank you for sharing your knowledge.

@fawaddurrani5341 4 years ago

As always very interesting and thorough. I wish you also make video to photograph people and do some portraits.

@jondoh587 6 months ago

7:00 What if, rather than going back to f\2.8 and getting into the house contamination issue, you stayed at f\4 but moved the camera closer? Wouldn't that effectively make the DOF shallower? Of course, it would change your framing, but your current composition has a lot of extra space that might not be missed.

@Self-Law-y1x 3 years ago

Hi do you ever do any colour correction and denoise work?.

@havefunwithmacrophotograph3839 4 years ago

tou can use High synq speed instead to get rid of contamination right ?

@Self-Law-y1x 3 years ago

Also when shooting RAW how do you get your colors to look decent without any correction work in photoshop please?.

@tomservo3728 4 years ago

Would you tell me where to get the Black and White card from? I can't seem to find a supplier.

@ervinasztalos6861 4 years ago

Thank you for this video as well.
Is it possible to replicate the same type of background (colored light) if I do have only a white wall or is it necessary to use gray?