Short Video Tour of Studio

Here is a quick video I was trying to keep under 5 megs so I could email it to another photographer. It ended up being about 40 megs so I’ll post it here. It shows a simple setup for silhouettes on the white seamless. Also, I use my speedlights and monolights together and the video shows how I can focus the light, and make it more directional with the Honl snoot. I also show what a gel looks like and what I sometimes use them for. Let me know in the comments below if you have any questions and I will do my best to answer them. Sorry that the light level is so low... I’ll work on my production level in the future!

First the Video...
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The overhead light was a simple way to get a bunch of bright white to come off the paper and back to the camera. Its how I got the silhouette picture below.

or this one


The Honl snoot was aimed into Bella’s face to get a little light but yet leave the rest of her dark.


Adrienne


Lexi

The one needs a backlight to separate her from the background and make her pop, but I still like it.

Use your imagination and try some things after you get the fundamentals down. There is really no right way or wrong way. I have been a member of photo.net for years now and I always liked the critique system where half of the score is based on originality. Take an idea and make it into something new and unique.

The studio has a skylight, but had no light going through it last winter. I gaffed a Girl Scout cookie box to a Nikon SB-800 to focus the light on Anna from an old DJ both at Ballet Arts.

Update: I sort of mentioned that I gelled the Photoflex mono lights with CTO to get them more balanced with the halogen worklights. I made the following image B&W because the flash was way blue compared to the worklight. I post some new pictures like this in color with the lights corrected next week.