Lighting Handbook Tutorial – Breaking down a hard light outdoor portrait & a soft light studio setup
In today’s video I breakdown a TTL HHS outdoor hard light portrait and a soft light Rembrandt setup in the studio.
How long does a studio need to be for full length portraits?
People often ask me how much space you need for a studio. So in today’s video I will test out how much depth you need to shoot a full body portrait with 50mm, 70mm and 85mm lenses.
How to recreate the lighting from inspiration images in three easy steps
Whether you’re just experimenting or needed to recreate a specific look for a client, deciphering someone else’s lighting is a key skill every photographer needs to know. In this video I will take you through my process for recognizing the modifiers, to evaluating the positioning and determining the ratios.
3 key positions for your main light
Portrait lighting doesn’t have to be hard. In fact you can get a lot of variety with one light so long as you know where to position it. In this video, I I show you three killer one light setups that will help you make your studio portraits pop!
MEMBER EXCLUSIVE: Lightroom and Photoshop B&W Tutorial
Step-by-step Black & White retouching using Lightroom Classic, Photoshop, and Neural Filters for Skin Smoothing. I also mask out the backgrounds and replace them.