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Simple Yet Effective On-Location Portrait Lighting Setup

KerryG — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 09:00:37 +0000

I often get asked to do portrait shots during local charity events and getting a simple lighting setup is the key to having a successful event. If you just use on-camera flash you will get very flat lighting which isn’t going to make the people look very good plus it also makes harsh shadows behind them. What you really want is some good directional lighting from one side with just enough fill light to reduce shadowing on the other side. In this article we are going to look at the basic lighting setup I use for these types of portraits and how it works.

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Mastering Your Flash 101 – Learning to Love eTTL/iTTL

KerryG — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 09:01:03 +0000

For many people the thought of taking their flash off of eTTL/iTTL mode is as intimidating as BASE jumping off a bridge, this is because they haven’t even fully mastered these automatic settings yet. The fact is, eTTL (Canon) and iTTL (Nikon) modes do work pretty good most of the time. However, there are two basic issues that these modes suffer from that there is simply no way to avoid. First off, the camera/flash doesn’t know what you are trying to accomplish, it will simply attempt to get a good exposure based on what the camera is seeing which may or may not be how you are trying to light the scene. Secondly, the metering modes can be confused by what the light is pointing at, this can result in over-exposed or under-exposed images. In this first part of our Mastering Your Flash 101 Series, we will address these two issues and learn to fine tune what our flash is doing.

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Building your own snoot

KerryG — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 08:01:16 +0000

What is a snoot? Simply put, a snoot is a tubular structure that is used to limit the throw of a light source to create a narrow beam of light. While commercial snoots are actually pretty affordable, from $14 to about $20, so why would we want to make our own? Because we know what we want and because for $20 we can make a dozen or more experimental ones and end up with a handful that we could use in different situations. So guys. go break into the wife’s scrapbooking supplies and get ready to make your own customized flash snoot.

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Lighting Basics – Using a single light source

KerryG — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 08:01:51 +0000

Along with dissecting different photo shoots like we have done in the past, we are now beginning a new “Lighting Basics” series that will start with a single light source and work up through multiple lights and advanced lighting techniques. Today we will start with a single flash and show how to make the most of an on-camera flash, an off-camera light, and how reflectors can make it appear as if you have more light sources.

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Getting Flash Exposure Fast

KerryG — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 09:00:03 +0000

In this episode of our Friday Photo Tips I answer a common question about how to get flash exposure dialed in quickly when using manual strobes. This will work whether you are using manual speedlights or studio strobes. With this simple technique, you are only a few seconds away from getting your flash exposure quickly and easily.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5oZB2OH-75I

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Using a reflector

KerryG — Fri, 08 Feb 2013 18:00:20 +0000

In this episode, Kerry Garrison (http://kerrygarrison.com) shows how to use a reflector to bounce sunlight onto a subject to help improve your natural light portraits

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpecG1T1vfc

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Classic Portrait Lighting Styles Part I

KerryG — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 07:00:36 +0000

As we continue our series on portrait lighting we now need to look at the different types of classic portrait lighting and see the effect it has on someone so we can decided when to use each type. By choosing the proper lighting for a particular person, we can help them to look their best by making them appear to be thinner or wider or to accent or minimize certain facial features.(...)
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Three Things to Know When Buying Your Lighting Essentials

KerryG — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 06:46:38 +0000

Lighting can affect a shot, too much or less of it is a matter of delivering the perfect shot. Every photographer would stop relying on its camera’s built – in flash and start discovering and exploring more on playing with light. Thus, this article will guide you on the essentials of lighting.

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Color Correction with Gels

KerryG — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 05:01:48 +0000

This week I show you how to match flash color with ambient color using colored gels on your flash. Kerry goes on to show you how to use the same technique to trick a scene into have a blue sky when its dull and gray.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RMWtVufORY

Used in this episode:

Stickey Filters Color Correcting Gels (Review)

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Directional Lighting with On-Camera Flash

KerryG — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 07:49:45 +0000

Buuuut Kerrrry..If you use your flash ON your camera (not your pop-up flash) you can’t get directional lighting, its going to look horrible. Well, yeah, and that’s why so many people don’t like to use flash or stick to being “natural light” shooters. In a podcast with Neil van Niekerk, Neil talked about bouncing the light to the left or right to create directional lighting. This created tons of emails asking for some more information on this so I decided to create a simple setup to demonstrate this concept.

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Lighting ratios for portraits

KerryG — Tue, 13 Nov 2012 13:25:28 +0000

Shooting portraits using classic styles of lighting ratios is a dying art. Many new photographers are completely unfamiliar with how to do portrait lighting and so they don’t even try leaving the current trend of wedding photography to be that of photo-journalism instead of being a mix of styles including traditional portraits. In this article we are going to try to teach you the typical lighting ratios that are used in portraiture.

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Understanding Light Stops

KerryG — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 11:00:43 +0000

One thing that seems to baffle a lot of new photographers is understanding the term “stop” as it pertains to a measurement of light. We see this word used over and over with regards to shutter speed, aperture, film speed, filters, lighting, and other ways that light is used. You may hear a phrase like “you should expose one side of face 1-2 stops under the lit side of the face and expose the background 1 stop under the main subject”. For many people that’s about like asking them to solve a complex calculus problem. So what does it all mean and how do we use this information? That’s exactly what we are going to look at in this article

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Getting Manual Flash Exposure Quickly

KerryG — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 04:30:23 +0000

I always love hearing from people to find out what things people are struggling with and one of the most common things is how to get your exposure dialed in quickly when using manual flash. Once you know a few simple tips, getting an exposure dialed in should only take a few seconds. Once you get the speed down, you can really open up your creativity in your lighting setups.

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Simple One-Light Directional Portrait Lighting

KerryG — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 03:00:06 +0000

Lighting can often be one of the most intimidating things to learn but it doesn’t need to be that way. I think the problem is that many people get intimidated thinking they need tons of lighting gear in order to make good images. Today we are going to look at using a single light source and just a little planning to give us a look we are going for. In the first example we will dissect a very simple couple portrait to see how we can achieve directional lighting in order to make the scene look as natural as possible.

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Mastering Your Flash 101 – High Speed Sync

KerryG — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 13:00:38 +0000

One of my favorite features of speedlites is High Speed Sync. This feature allows you to work with speedlites way past your camera’s normal sync speed (1/160 – 1/250 depending on camera). By shooting at very fast shutter speeds you can dramatically cut ambient light and can shoot what looks like night-time shots at high noon. Sounds incredible huh? Guess what, using it is as simple as pressing a single button.

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5 Tips for Shooting Off-Camera Flash, Part 5

KerryG — Tue, 09 Oct 2012 17:10:59 +0000

This week Jason Anderson from Canon Blogger continues his five part series on learning how to use off-camera flash.

The final installment of the off-camera flash series is here! For the past five weeks, I’ve been posting various tips and tricks on how to get the most out of your minimalist off-camera flash setup. The equipment is a single flash, a light stand, and an umbrella. The goal was to come up with 5 tips for how to get the most out of it! Here’s what we’ve done so far:

1. Attached the umbrella correctly

2. Positioned the light as far away from the shoot-through as possible

3. Added a little extra diffusion from the built in diffuser for your flash

4. Stabilized the light stand by spreading the base to it’s widest point – adding a possible “4th leg” in the process too!

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Top 10 Photography Books of 2012

KerryG — Wed, 03 Oct 2012 06:06:13 +0000

Photography education should always be an on-going thing and there are some excellent books available to help you learn more about photography technique as well as post processing. I have compiled a list of my top ten books for this year so far so get your reading on and learn something new, fun, and exciting!

The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4 Book for Digital Photographers (Scott Kelby)
Understanding Exposure, 3rd Edition: How to Shoot Great Photographs with Any Camera (Bryan Peterson)
Welcome to Oz 2.0: A Cinematic Approach to Digital Still Photography with Photoshop (2nd Edition) (Vincent Versace)
Speedliter’s Handbook: Learning to Craft Light with Canon Speedlites (Syl Arena)
Lighting for Digital Photography: From Snapshots to Great Shots (Using Flash and Natural Light for Portrait, Still Life, Action, and Product Photography) (Syl Arena)
So You Want To Be A Rockstar Photographer: Exploding The Myth And Real World Guidance (Gary Fong)
Magnum Contact Sheets (Kristen Lubben)
Captured by the Light: The Essential Guide to Creating Extraordinary Wedding Photography (David Ziser)
On-Camera Flash Techniques for Digital Wedding and Portrait Photography (Neil van Niekerk)
Picture Perfect Practice: A Self-Training Guide to Mastering the Challenges of Taking World-Class Photographs (Roberto Valenzuela)

Available for Kindle are also my two books Beginner’s Guide to Exposure, and All About Light. If you have a favorite book, be sure and let us know about it in the comments.

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Rim Lighting To Add Wow To Your Images

KerryG — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 04:00:56 +0000

I really love using multiple light sources because it enables you to do things that most photographers can’t do. With a little extra light somewhere you can take a regular image and really do something interesting and different with it. Rim lighting is one of those things that is virtually impossible to do without off-camera lighting unless you wait for that 5 minute window in the late afternoon and just happen to have everything else lined up perfectly. However, there is nothing to say that we can’t fake it and get some great results.

Getting the shot is easier than you might expect but will take a little bit of gear to get us the desired result.

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5 Tips for Shooting Off-Camera Flash, Part 4

KerryG — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 06:00:29 +0000

This week Jason Anderson from Canon Blogger continues his five part series on learning how to use off-camera flash.

This series has been all about wrangling in your off-camera flash. We’ve gone a little more advanced, and the responses have been quite positive, so if you’ve got some ideas for other advanced topics to cover, be sure to share your thoughts in the comments. As you may recall, we started the series with attaching the umbrella correctly to your light stand. This was followed by a demonstration of what happens to light as you slide the umbrella closer to and further away from your flash. Then, last week, we looked at how to really fill out your shoot through with that strobe flash.

Quite a bit already, and we’re almost done, so I’d like t round things out with a little bit of stabilizing. You see, while light stands are great for moving your flash off-camera, they’re not the most stable things around. Certainly not like a tripod for your camera! Why is that? The answer is in the physics – a light stand is typically a single pole that is extended into the air, whereas a tripod is three poles that converge at a point (your ball head or camera mount). Whereas the former has each other to lean on and stabilize things, your light stand doesn’t have this benefit. But, you can minimize the wiggle! Here’s how…

Most light stands will have a three-legged base which collapses down to help with portability and to compact the size. I’ve seen people take light stands out, and the first thing they extend all the way are those three legs. Don’t! When you take the three legs to their maximum height, yes, you are getting more height, but you are losing leverage and stability! Don’t! Instead, do this:

See how in the first example the legs are high, narrow and only have three points touching the floor – this invites a top-heavy rig, which is always more likely to topple over. If you sacrifice those 3″ at the bottom, look what you can gain! A wider stand base = more stability, a lower light stand = additional stability, and then the addition of the center point for even more stability! The one on the left is how it’s supposed to be done.

For an added corollary, you can also bring sand or water bags to your shoot and fill them when you get there…then place the bags inside that little “pocket” that is formed for even more of a weighted base that will further reduce toppling risks! (Consider it a Light Stand Tip 4A!)

Next week we wrap up the week of lighting do’s and don’ts when using light stands and shoot-throughs! I hope you’ve enjoyed these as much as I enjoyed writing them (it’s always fun to do a series like this, because it has a beginning, middle and end – which makes for nice writing projects!)

Be sure and check out more of Jason’s articles at http://canonblogger.com

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Top 5 Modifiers For Photography Lighting

KerryG — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 06:00:47 +0000

I constantly get asked about my favorite modifiers so I have put together a list of my top 5 all-time favorite light modifiers. From the small and ultra-portable Rouge Flashbenders that you will always see in my camera bag to the massive seven foot tall Westcott parabolic umbrellas that provide the best light from my flash equipment, all of them work to provide you with the best lighting possible for your shoots.

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5 Tips for Shooting Off-Camera Flash, Part 3

KerryG — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 07:01:10 +0000

This week Jason Anderson from Canon Blogger continues his five part series on learning how to use off-camera flash.

This week continues the journey through various tips to wrangle the best possible light out of a single light source off-camera! To do this, we are employing the assistance of only a light stand and a shoot through umbrella. As you may recall, in Week 1, we focused (if you’ll pardon the pun) on how to correctly attach the umbrella to the light stand. In Week 2, we shifted gears to demonstrate how adjusting the umbrella’s proximity to the flash can affect the quality of light (think hot light versus diffused light). Today, for session 3 – we are now shifting our attention to the little flaps that come with your camera – the built in reflector and diffuser.

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5 Tips for Shooting Off-Camera Flash, Part 2

KerryG — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 07:01:31 +0000

This week Jason Anderson from Canon Blogger continues his five part series on learning how to use off-camera flash.

Last week, I started the series with a demonstration of how to correctly mount your umbrella to a light stand. The clue was “up for luck” as a mnemonic. Today, we’re going to add another nitty-gritty detail about your umbrella. This isn’t so much a “tip” as it is a demonstration because neither here is right or wrong – it’s more about showing you the behavior of light, so you know how to position an umbrella, relative to the flash.

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5 Tips for Shooting Off-Camera Flash – Part 1

Jason Anderson — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 07:01:42 +0000

Occasionally I like to delve a little beyond the basics for some of the more advanced and forward-thinking folks in the photography audience, and this week, I’d like to do just that. We’re going to talk in detail about off-camera flash! Before you go running and screaming into the night, rest assured, I am not going off the deep end here. Rather, I’d like to just delve a teensy bit into the gear. For those of you that use your flash off-camera, congratulations! If you’ve also got an umbrella, kudos – you’ve taken things even a step further. Today, I am going to share with you the first tip to make sure you are using your light stand and umbrella correctly…

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Using Gels To Fix An Ugly Sky

KerryG — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 03:51:55 +0000

Yesterday I went out with the LA Shoot This! group to help lead a group shoot event but unfortunately Mother Nature was not on our side. The sky was gray and boring and it was raining on and off. While I like nice blue skies, there was no hope of getting anything beyond dark storm clouds. My friend Chris Diset was in this same situation a few months ago and used a little white balance trick to change the color of the sky. Taking a cue from his playbook, I used that same trick to help make something out of nothing.

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Shooting The Steampunk by Chris Diset

Chris — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 04:57:57 +0000

So we were on a shoot Saturday morning, and Debra got a text from Kerry, and she told him about the shoot we were on and that I was setting up the Blackbelt Lighting BB560 speedlights. Kerry suggested a guest blogpost on Dojo, so here I am. Let me tell you a little about the shoot. Debra and I met Brian (in the photos) on New Years Day. We got to talking and traded info, and decided to set up a shoot for the 28th. I had much anticipation for this shoot. Now I am a big fan of diffused sun, so I was keeping my fingers crossed that the 28th would be a miserably overcast and cloudy day. But it wasn’t. The skies were perfectly clear and the 7:30 AM sun was brutally bright and shiny. Oh yeah, and we were having high wind warnings.

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Using a Light Meter for Proper Exposure

KerryG — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 05:00:34 +0000

I have heard the phrase “I don’t need no stinking light meter” more times than I can count, your LCD display and histogram are all you need for a perfect exposure right? Would you be surprised if I told you that your camera was lying to you? We first need to know why our LCD and histogram is wrong before we can believe that using a light meter will be of benefit.

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Low Key Studio Lighting

KerryG — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 15:14:52 +0000

A Guest Post on Low Key Studio Lighting by Kyle Miller from Photography Tips

I’ve talked about basic and advanced lighting techniques commonly used for virtually any studio photo shoot, but those lighting setups require more than a single light, and for a beginning photographer, especially one who has a limited amount of studio space and a small budget, retaining multiple lights can be a problem. There is a way to get around using multiple lights though, and that is low key lighting.

Low key lighting is a type of portrait lighting that creates a very dramatic light setup, as well as creates some intense classic looking photos. Low key lighting lends it’s self strongly to a darker side of glamor and artistic photography. This type of lighting can cast a strong exposure on the subject, creating harsh contrast between the light and shadows of your subject, and leaves a majority of the background darkened. There are a few ways to set up a low key lighting setup, but the common factor in almost all low key setups is that they are predominately lit by only a single light.

45 or 90 Degree Angle

Image by Andy Leddy

This setup is the simplest by far, but still creates powerful, elegant images. Place your key light at either a 45 or 90 degree angle from the subject, on either the left or right side of your camera. That’s the entire setup, one light, in one of four locations. While it is a simple setup, the effects of the setup can very greatly. At a 45 degree angle, exposing the front of your subject, you will create a beautiful front exposure, with harsh contrasted shadows. At a 90 degree angle, if you expose your subject from the front you can create an intense split light where the subjects back will virtually vanish into the background, but if you expose the subject from the back you will create the exact opposite effect.

45 or 90 Degree with a Reflector

Image by Cillian Storm

This setup is the exact same as the previous, with the inclusion of a new piece of equipment, a reflector. The reflector is placed on the opposite side of your subject, and directly in front of your light. The light that wraps around the subject, or misses them entirely, is diffused and reflected on the back of the subject, creating a softer exposure. In this way the reflector acts as a fill light. Images shot in this way will not be as dark and contrasted as the previous manner, but will still maintain a much darker contrast ratio.

From Behind

Image by spunkinator

This type of lighting is commonly used to create a much more brooding, or sinister look, by creating an intense silhouette of the subject, only exposing a small area outlining the subject. The best way to achieve this look is with the help of two strong lights, but it can be done with as little as one. Place both lights behind the subject at 45 degree angles on opposite sides. An addition trick to really enhance images shot like this is to actually include the lights in the image. This will create a lens flare look behind the subject, and really enhances the visage of a foreboding or sinister subject.

Kyle Miller has been a professional wedding and portrait photographer for several years. He shares his knowledge on his blog Photography Tips where you can also download his eBook 7 Essential Photography Tips for free.

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The Standard Three Light Portrait Setup

KerryG — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 15:00:00 +0000

I get asked all the time what a really solid portrait lighting setup should consist of. My stock answer is a softbox as the main light, a shoot through umbrella for fill and a third light for a hair light or background light. This can be your ‘go to’ setup anytime you need something quick that will give you great results every time.

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Mastering Your Flash 101 – High Speed Sync

KerryG — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 12:47:26 +0000

Every once in a while we dredge up a classic post from the past. One of the most popular posts ever was this one on using high speed sync (fp sync on Nikons).

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The Two Immutable Laws Of Lighting

KerryG — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 16:14:45 +0000

Recently Linda Ralston, one of my Facebook friends, asked me how I go about setting my flash exposure for some nighttime wedding shots I had posted. The conversation on Facebook led to what I dubbed “The Two Immutable Laws of Lighting”. If you can get a grasp on these two concepts you will gain tremendous power over your lighting ability. What are these two laws that will elevate you into wielding the power of light the way a Samurai wields a sword? Continue reading to find out.

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Using Colored Gels on Backgrounds

KerryG — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 15:06:36 +0000

We have covered using colored gels for backgrounds in the past (here) and a very common question is how to get the background color dialed in properly. In this article we will walk through a simple setup that will explain the process I go through to get as much color as possible on the background.

The two most common issues are not being able to get the background color bright enough or the background color gets too washed out. Let’s get right into it and see how we can improve our technique and use colored gels for our backgrounds more effectively.

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Umbrellas Versus Softboxes

KerryG — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 14:09:02 +0000

I get asked quite a bit about the difference in using an umbrella versus a softbox so I figured it was about time to do an article about it and see if I could help clear up the mystery of these two popular light modifiers. Both are excellent modifiers and can both be used effectively in different situations.

To really understand the difference, we need to look at how the light comes out from both types of devices so we can decided when best to use which modifier.

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Using Light Modifiers Correctly

KerryG — Thu, 26 May 2011 14:52:01 +0000

This weekend I was attending my wife’s graduation and watched a guy with a high end Canon camera outfitted with the latest 70-200mm f/2.8 L II lens and 580 ex II struggling for half an hour to get a good exposure. The guy had all the right gear and was only 40 feet away from the stage, and well within the range of the flash. I was in the same situation on the other side of the room. Why did I only need a single test shot to double check my exposure and this guy fired close to one hundred shots and never got a good image? It wasn’t because I am just awesome or have magic powers, it all boiled down to understanding your gear.

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Getting the Shot – Girl on the Beach

KerryG — Thu, 12 May 2011 15:34:29 +0000

In this installment of “Getting the Shot” we look at night shot of a girl on a beach. WeÂ see the water crashing onto the subject and a dark sky behind her. She is lit with some directional light and the water seems frozen in mid-air.

The Image

The shot is an evening shot taken after sunset so there is no visible sun and almost no ambient light. The subject is a girl so she needed to be lit properly which meant artificial light. I also wanted the water to be sharp and not have any motion blur in it.(...)
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Using Gels For Colored Backgrounds

KerryG — Tue, 10 May 2011 14:43:19 +0000

One of the things I hear that people really struggle with is how to use gels to make colored backgrounds. Why would we want to do this? Well, because sometimes a basic single color background is just boring. Adding some gels to the a background light can make it much more dramatic or even set a particular mood or theme. Adding colored gels to your background light can give you a virtually unlimited number of backgrounds.

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Simple Event Lighting Setup with Canon eTTL II Wireless System

KerryG — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 15:00:53 +0000

Shooting an awards ceremony usually doesn’t allow you the opportunity to setup much in the way of lighting.

At a recent event I only had a few minutes to get whatever I was going to do setup and tested and I didn’t have anyone available to stand in for the speaker to test the lighting. While I would usually throw up a couple of YN560′s and some Ninja wireless flash triggers, the problem was I didn’t have either the time or a subject to help dial in the lighting. Sure I could have used a light meter but I also didn’t really know how things might change as the spotlights came on and I wanted to make sure things were going to work right.

For me, this would normally be a simple case of using the PocketWizard ControlTL system with the Zone Controller so I could change my lighting on the fly from wherever in the room I ended up. The reason I didn’t go with my regular Blackbelt Lighting triggers was simply a convenience factor so I could change the flash output remotely.

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Quick Tip: Storing Speedlite Gels

KerryG — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 14:09:26 +0000

I actually like using gels on my speedlites but the biggest hassle has always been how to store them effectively. At a recent shoot, my Strobist Gell Kit had an unfortunate incident which resulted in gels flying all over the place. There simply had to be a better way to store and and organize these gels.

My good friend Chris Diset comes over yesterday and tells me that his significant other Debra has come up with a solution.

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Single Light Portraits – Yes You Can!

KerryG — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 14:00:06 +0000

Since I launched the Blackbelt Lighting Products the most common question I get asked is “How many lights do I need?”. The problem is there is no simple answer to that, except that I always tell people that they should always master a single light before adding more lights to your setup.

With even just a single light you can create really nice portraits. All of the examples here were created with just a single light with the only change being the position of the subject’s face in relation to the light.(...)
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Photo Project 24 #16 – Grand Canyon Western Town

KerryG — Sat, 22 Jan 2011 15:54:43 +0000

This is not some miniature, this is three full sized stores with absolutely no light hitting them. While we probably could have just setup a couple of umbrellas and just blasted the scene with light we would have lost shadows and lit the foreground as well. The trick here was going to be how to light it but only light the areas we wanted lit. This ended up being the most complex lighting setup of the entire trip.(...)
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Photo Project 24 – A Light in the Sky

KerryG — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 14:30:52 +0000

We are somewhere in the middle of nowhere, we haven’t seen a city in what seems like ages. We are only seeing another car about once every 15-20 minutes. Yet again we are completely out of time and we have to pull over and make something happen.(...)
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Photo Project 24 – Uncovered Wagon

KerryG — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 15:25:09 +0000

As the Sun disappeared over the horizon, there was barely a glow over the distance mountains when we came upon this old covered wagon. We knew this was going to be the shot we were going to do next. The challenge was it was so dark we could barely see anything, it was right about 30 degrees outside, and we needed to use some lighting to get the shot.
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Photo Project 24 #6 – The Accidental Ghost Town

KerryG — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 15:00:05 +0000

Unfortunately there is a chain link fence surrounding this structure and while we could have shot through it at pointblank range and it would basically disappear, we really wanted a clean view, although this meant getting fairly close. In order to capture the complete building from the short distance required a wider lens so we threw a 24-70 on the camera and pulled it back to 24mm. We were still at ISO 50 and f/5.6 would give us a decent depth of fieldÂ which left is with a 1/250th shutter speed. The fast shutter was needed since Chris was holding the camera over his head to avoid the fence and a fast shutter would help avoid camera shake.

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Using Multiple Flashes – Evolution of a Shot

KerryG — Sat, 18 Dec 2010 19:06:40 +0000

Lately I have become addicted to using more and more speedlites on my shoots in order to have complete control of the lighting that I want to achieve. Products like my wireless flash triggers and YN560 flashes have finally made having 2,3 or even 4 speedlites actually affordable. In this article we will look at one simple example of a shot that I wanted to get but simply wasnâ€™t really possible (in-camera) to do with a single light.

During this article we will start with an on-camera flash and build up to a three-light setup.

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Single Light Portrait Setup

KerryG — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 20:31:47 +0000

When you are learning how to use lighting it is best to start off with a single light source and really learn how to master what you can get with that. Your next best friend aside from the one light will be a reflector to help fill in shadows. In this video, I show you how to use a single light along with a reflector for great looking portraits.

The only lighting used was a Blackbelt Stage 1 Lighting kit which contains a YN560 Speedlite, a set of wireless flash triggers, a lightstand, swivel mount, umbrella, and a reflector.

What you will see in the video is the effect of just using the one light, then we bring in a reflector to cut down on the contrast and make the shadows softer for a better final image.

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Multiple Light Configurations with Westcott Speedliting Kit

KerryG — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 04:03:12 +0000

Sometimes you just need more light and one speedlite isn’t enough. While playing around with the Westcott Speedliting Kit I figured out some interesting ways of attaching multiple lights to the system. Using this setup, we did some shooting outside in bright sunlight to see what kind of results we could get.

Check out the video for more information about the setup.

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PocketWizard HyperSync – Warp Speed for Studio Strobes

KerryG — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 13:00:10 +0000

Recently we have really been focusing on using speedlites due to their flexibility and features like high speed sync. We usually donâ€™t take our studio strobes out of the studio because with a maximum sync speed of about 1/250th of a second, we usually canâ€™t get the shutter speed fast enough to keep the sky from blowing out. While we can sometimes compensate by closing down the aperture and kicking up the power on the strobe we then lose control over our depth of field. With high speed sync, we can use a fast enough shutter speed to keep our sky nice and blue while given us the choice of aperture to use. So why doesnâ€™t this work with studio strobes and how can we create a workaround? Continue reading for more information.

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Using the PocketWizard ControlTL Wireless Flash Triggers

KerryG — Thu, 06 May 2010 08:03:19 +0000

Before we can really look at whether we need a product like the PocketWizard ControlTL system, we need to understand the limitations of our existing Canon speedlite system. The Canon system has a good amount of control of multiple lights, supports two main zones that are ratio controlled along with a background zone, and supports manual control of multiple lights. While not the end-all-beat-all solution that many of us would like, the feature set is fairly solid. With all this being said, what does PocketWizard bring to the table with the ControlTL system?

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Using PocketWizards and the Lumodi Beauty Dish

KerryG — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 15:46:10 +0000

A number of people asked about how to trigger a flash that is behind the Lumodi Beauty Dish that I talked about a few days ago. The Canon wireless eTTL system leavesa lot to be desired (like range, non-line of site operation, reliability, etc) and hiding a flash behind a light modifier, especially a solid one like the Lumodi dish is the perfect recipe for your flash to not work properly. In preparation for a trip to Maui tomorrow, I wanted to test out a set of PocketWizard ControlTL units to demonstrate how and why we might want to use devices like this.

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David Ziser lighting demo for Westcott at WPPI 2010

KerryG — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 16:45:17 +0000

David Ziser (http://digitalprotalk.com) is certainly one of my personal mentors with his classical approach to wedding photography and lighting. At WPPI this year David was on-hand at the Westcott booth to do a lighting demonstration and I got some of the demo on video to help give people a sneak peak at the type of info you can get at WPPI as wella s from David’s workshops and his new book, Captured by the Light: The Essential Guide to Creating Extraordinary Wedding Photography
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Video: How to use a Light Meter

KerryG — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 04:07:26 +0000

With the recent articles we have done on portrait lighting and the use of light meters we have had a bunch of requests to do an actual demonstration of how to use a meter in an actual real-world environment. Light meters aren’t difficult to use or understand once you have had a chance to see how they work and the “mystery” about them is removed.

In this video Kerry demonstrates using a simple light meter in a product shoot.

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Simple Yet Effective On-Location Portrait Lighting Setup

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Understanding Light Stops

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Umbrellas Versus Softboxes

Using Light Modifiers Correctly

Getting the Shot – Girl on the Beach

The Image

Using Gels For Colored Backgrounds

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Simple Event Lighting Setup with Canon eTTL II Wireless System

Quick Tip: Storing Speedlite Gels

Single Light Portraits – Yes You Can!

Photo Project 24 #16 – Grand Canyon Western Town

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Photo Project 24 – Uncovered Wagon

Photo Project 24 #6 – The Accidental Ghost Town

Using Multiple Flashes – Evolution of a Shot

Single Light Portrait Setup

Multiple Light Configurations with Westcott Speedliting Kit

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