Lighting 201

Lighting 201
Class Description
In this course, Pye Jirsa of SLR Lounge give you tips on how to:
- Use light manipulation to turn extreme lighting situations like midday sun or the night sky into stunning background imagery for portraiture.
- Develop a sense of placement strategy in shoots with complex lighting and limited, portable gear
- Composite images in post-production to achieve the best possible light
Lessons
- Chapter 1 Introduction
- Welcome to Lighting 201!
- OCF = Anytime/Anyplace
- Chapter 2 Introduction
- Wired, Infrared or Radio?
- “Pocket, Medium, Full Strobe?”
- Our 3 Favorite Flashes “Pocket Strobes”
- 4 More Flashes “Pocket Strobes” Worth Looking At
- Our 2 Favorite Medium Strobes
- Understanding Radios Part I: Channels & Groups
- Our 2 Favorite Radio Triggers
- 5 Simple Steps to Trouble Shooting Radios/OCFs
- Fantastic ND Filters at Any Price Range
- Our Favorite “Sticks”
- Our Favorite Ultra-Portable OCF Light Modifiers
- 12 Mounting and Must-Have Lighting Accessories
- Gear Setup - Setting Up a Light Stand or “Stick”
- Gear Setup - Setting Up a Monopod Light or “Boom Stick”
- Gear Setup - Setting Up a “Medium Boom Stick”
- Gear Setup - Setting Up a Manual Flash “Big Boom Stick”
- Gear Setup - Setting Up a Full Feature Flash “Big Boom Stick”
- Chapter 3 Introduction
- 8 Steps to Perfecting Each Scene & Image When Using OCF
- Over Powering the Sun - Part I
- Over Powering the Sun - Part II
- Slow Down! Watch the Details
- More Power Without The Power
- Adding to Existing Light - Part I
- Bare Bulbing with Large Groups
- Back Lighting to Create Interest
- Getting Crazy with the “Whip Pan”
- Chapter 4 Introduction
- The Flash Modifier You Already Own
- The Oh-So Powerful Umbrella
- Large Group Shots with an Umbrella
- Exposure Balancing via Lightroom
- Portable Softboxes - Westcott Apollo
- More Light Control, Just Grid It!
- Dusk + Modified Pocket Strobes
- More Power? Medium Strobes FTW!
- Perfect It In-Camera. Then Photoshop
- Adding to Existing Light - Part II
- Adding or Enhancing Light Direction
- Our Ideal Group Lighting Technique
- Incorporating Flares with Flash
- Cutting Light, Grids and GOBOs
- Chapter 5 Introduction
- Fog + Flash + Grid = Dramatic Change
- BYOL! The 3-Light Setup That Only Requires One Light!
- What About the Fill Light?
- Backlight + GOBO + Fog = Magic
- Drawing Attention via Light Shaping
- Visualizing Lights & Color Shifts
- Mixing Ambient + Gobo w/ Flash
- Better Light Can Change Everything!
- Chapter 6 Introduction
- Subtle Refinement = Massive Difference
- Great Light Changes Everything! Part II
- Manually Triggered RCS + Shutter Drag
- The Right Power for Each Scene
- Dodging and Burning via Light In-Camera
- Subtle Light for Natural Portraits
- Light Modification & Simple Compositing
- Expanding Your Photographic Vision
Reviews
Colin
Pye is a god. His teaching style is really engaging, breaking down everything you could want to know about each example in a fun yet detailed manner. The course is absolutely jam-packed full of great information and fantastic inspiration. This course, as well as Lighting 101, give not only a perfect foundation for anybody learning about flash from scratch, but also have more than enough tips and advanced techniques in them to help experienced flash users seriously up their game. Cannot recommend it enough.
Lê Tiến Đạt
I'd like to say thank you to SLR Lougne, Creativelive and especially Pye for creating this wonderful Lighting series. Pye has a great sense of humor and he is also a great teacher. He expains everything in tiny details. I love his creativity, all the tips and dedication. Recommended!
Karen Ruet
I'm watching this live and am seriously considering buying this course. I really like the examples and all the information. Pye is super generous and easy to listen to. I also appreciate the talk about gear and am happy that Pye is giving us options for different price ranges. Thank you, Creative Live.