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Orio
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Posted: Sat May 26, 2012 4:50 pm Post subject: Loop lighting 3+1 |
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Orio wrote:
Demonstration of my elaboration of classic loop lighting scheme for portraiture
3 flashes without diffusers: one main (loop light), a second one for hair accent, and a third one to create a localized light accent on the background.
1 white reflective panel at approx. 135° angle from main flash
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Posted: Sat May 26, 2012 5:49 pm Post subject: |
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LucisPictor wrote:
Looks good. Perhaps another reflector to milden the nose shadow on her right cheek? _________________ Personal forum activity on pause every now and again (due to job obligations)!
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Posted: Sat May 26, 2012 6:39 pm Post subject: |
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ilguercio wrote:
Some of the shadows (the one under "her" chin) are still a bit too hars even though the overall effect is pleasant because of the way you arranged the flashes.
I think it's a bit nicer to have an umbrella at 45° in front of the model/mannequin as it is enough most of the time. You can maybe add a white matte panel or piece of fabric on the opposite side so the "wasted" light will bounce on it and act as a little fill. |
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Orio
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Posted: Sat May 26, 2012 8:34 pm Post subject: |
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Orio wrote:
Loop lighting is not supposed to be a beauty lighting.
These shadows are already weak. If you want weaker than this, then you want flat lighting with no shadows, which means you have a different purpose than loop lighting.
In that case, you use beauty dishes, or shoot inside a light tent, or under a Skylite.
But that is not what I wanted.
Beauty scheme is not the only way to photograph a woman. Here's a classic example of loop lighting in a female portrait by Arturo Ghergo:
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Posted: Sat May 26, 2012 8:42 pm Post subject: |
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ChromaticAberration wrote:
Most people would say that classic portrait has serious lightning issues with the harsh shadows and all. Your results seemed very nice though. Softer shadows.
Having a doll like though.. creepy?
I am not too fond of the back light that stroke the "model"'s hair. Dunno if the flash was pointer at the wall or at the "model"'s back. I am very inexperience in what comes to lightning (and photography in general hehe). _________________ Body: Fujifilm X-E1
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Orio
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Posted: Sat May 26, 2012 8:59 pm Post subject: |
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Orio wrote:
ChromaticAberration wrote: |
Most people would say that classic portrait has serious lightning issues with the harsh shadows and all. |
Because most people is only familiar with beauty magazines, unfortunately, and think that that is the only way to photograph a female portrait.
By the way, loop lighting dates much more back than photography, as shown by this portrait by Georges De La Tour (17th century)
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Your results seemed very nice though. Softer shadows. |
Thanks. I would not have minded stronger shadows, but on the plastic mannequin they don't look good. With a real female and skin I would have probably used a stronger contrast.
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Having a doll like though.. creepy? ![Laughing](images/smiles/icon_lol.gif) |
It's not the first time I read this objection, and I have trouble understanding what's creepy about that. I am a photographer and I like to study and experiment with lighting.
Not having a model at my disposal all the time, I use a mannequin (like most photographic studios do when they prepare a set)
People see no wrong in photographing statues, I wonder why it should be wrong to photograph a mannequin. Mannequins are not inflatable sex dolls...
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I am not too fond of the back light that stroke the "model"'s hair. Dunno if the flash was pointer at the wall or at the "model"'s back. |
Like I wrote, I used one flash on the hair, and another on the background. I too would have liked the hair light to be placed higher and with a snoot, but I don't have a snoot and neither a light support tall enough, so I did how I could. _________________ Orio, Administrator
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