Online Portrait Lighting Workshop July 12th 2020
Do you want to master location portrait lighting?
Do you want to learn how to blend strobe with ambient?
Do you struggle with getting natural look with artificial light?
Don’t know what gear to choose?
Don’t know where to position your light?
This online portrait Lighting workshop will answer all these questions.
The Goal
Lighting is critical for the success of our photography. Artificial light like flash or strobe are commonly used by portrait photographers. They can greatly enhance our creativity when blending them with natural light. But, lots of photographers are having trouble making this look natural. Many times people got disappointed by the flashy look. When using artificial lights with ambient, it should look like you didn’t use them at all. In other words, your lights should be used in a way that they look like part of the ambient. There must be a harmony between the lighting on our subject and lighting on the background. Not only the amount of light (exposure) must match, also the quality. The quality is always more important than quantity. It’s much easier to fix a exposure error than faking the lighting there was not even there.
The variables
No matter where you shoot, what gear you use, there are 4 variables that will ultimately decide the look you’ll get. I’ll list them in priority from high to low: the angle; the distance; the power level; the modifier. Many photographers believe making the lighting looks natural simply means the light output needs to be subtle. This is actually only one of the 4 variables that we need to with and it’s not even the most important one. This is the reason why sometimes no matter what lighting output level you choose, it just doesn’t look right.
The Formulas
The combination of these 4 variables: angle, distance, power level and choice modifier will be your lighting “formula”. There are almost unlimited lighting formulas, because of the unlimited lighting conditions, like locations, weather, time of day, angles of sun, angles of camera. The reason why watching behind the scenes or copying lighting setup won’t get you too far is because it’s just copying the result without the understanding of the development of that setup. The key is not about remembering the formula but learn how to develop your own. Only after you can develop your own lighting formula are you guaranteed to get consistent good results.
This workshop is about teaching people how to develop their own lighting formula
The Workshop
Time: July 12th 2020 5:00 pm to 8:00 pm PST
3 hours of online portrait lighting training covering more than 10 different lighting scenario from outdoor to indoor, from mid day to golden hour, from using one light to multiple lights. With each lighting scenario, we’ll do complete lighting deconstruction to show exactly where to place the light what modifier used and most importantly why.
The topics that will be covered in this workshop
How to read the ambient light.
Finding the harmony between strobe and ambient light
Choosing the right lighting gear
Choosing the right background
Camera Settings
High speed sync and using ND filter
My workflow of working on location
Blending strobe with ambient - outdoor
Blending strobe with ambient - indoor
Shooting with one light
Shooting with multiple lights
Combining strobe with reflector
Competing with sun
Shooting low light
Q&A