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Chapter 3 Introduction

Lesson 22 from: Lighting 201

SLR Lounge, Pye Jirsa

Chapter 3 Introduction

Lesson 22 from: Lighting 201

SLR Lounge, Pye Jirsa

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Lesson Info

22. Chapter 3 Introduction

Lessons

Class Trailer
1

Chapter 1 Introduction

06:59
2

Welcome to Lighting 201!

03:16
3

OCF = Anytime/Anyplace

06:49
4

Chapter 2 Introduction

05:11
5

Wired, Infrared or Radio?

15:03
6

“Pocket, Medium, Full Strobe?”

13:23
7

Our 3 Favorite Flashes “Pocket Strobes”

09:26
8

4 More Flashes “Pocket Strobes” Worth Looking At

14:33
9

Our 2 Favorite Medium Strobes

12:55
10

Understanding Radios Part I: Channels & Groups

11:04
11

Our 2 Favorite Radio Triggers

07:59
12

5 Simple Steps to Trouble Shooting Radios/OCFs

15:10
13

Fantastic ND Filters at Any Price Range

09:03
14

Our Favorite “Sticks”

11:01
15

Our Favorite Ultra-Portable OCF Light Modifiers

19:38
16

12 Mounting and Must-Have Lighting Accessories

12:28
17

Gear Setup - Setting Up a Light Stand or “Stick”

08:14
18

Gear Setup - Setting Up a Monopod Light or “Boom Stick”

09:30
19

Gear Setup - Setting Up a “Medium Boom Stick”

12:15
20

Gear Setup - Setting Up a Manual Flash “Big Boom Stick”

13:30
21

Gear Setup - Setting Up a Full Feature Flash “Big Boom Stick”

09:40
22

Chapter 3 Introduction

04:12
23

8 Steps to Perfecting Each Scene & Image When Using OCF

12:30
24

Over Powering the Sun - Part I

16:42
25

Over Powering the Sun - Part II

12:42
26

Slow Down! Watch the Details

08:32
27

More Power Without The Power

11:03
28

Adding to Existing Light - Part I

10:52
29

Bare Bulbing with Large Groups

14:36
30

Back Lighting to Create Interest

13:33
31

Getting Crazy with the “Whip Pan”

17:27
32

Chapter 4 Introduction

03:44
33

The Flash Modifier You Already Own

12:05
34

The Oh-So Powerful Umbrella

11:13
35

Large Group Shots with an Umbrella

11:21
36

Exposure Balancing via Lightroom

04:20
37

Portable Softboxes - Westcott Apollo

10:22
38

More Light Control, Just Grid It!

12:53
39

Dusk + Modified Pocket Strobes

13:51
40

More Power? Medium Strobes FTW!

12:37
41

Perfect It In-Camera. Then Photoshop

05:23
42

Adding to Existing Light - Part II

12:00
43

Adding or Enhancing Light Direction

11:17
44

Our Ideal Group Lighting Technique

12:58
45

Incorporating Flares with Flash

10:39
46

Cutting Light, Grids and GOBOs

10:29
47

Chapter 5 Introduction

03:34
48

Fog + Flash + Grid = Dramatic Change

08:56
49

BYOL! The 3-Light Setup That Only Requires One Light!

12:07
50

What About the Fill Light?

12:15
51

Backlight + GOBO + Fog = Magic

08:36
52

Drawing Attention via Light Shaping

08:29
53

Visualizing Lights & Color Shifts

09:17
54

Mixing Ambient + Gobo w/ Flash

11:37
55

Better Light Can Change Everything!

09:47
56

Chapter 6 Introduction

01:57
57

Subtle Refinement = Massive Difference

11:31
58

Great Light Changes Everything! Part II

11:50
59

Manually Triggered RCS + Shutter Drag

11:29
60

The Right Power for Each Scene

14:24
61

Dodging and Burning via Light In-Camera

07:23
62

Subtle Light for Natural Portraits

09:14
63

Light Modification & Simple Compositing

10:16
64

Expanding Your Photographic Vision

11:37

Lesson Info

Chapter 3 Introduction

Welcome to chapter three this is work it's exciting this is where we get a start dancing because that's not really how it okay, that is really high dance actually let's just be honest this is where we're going on and heading out and doing actual shoots and so it's gonna be really fun and exciting were to show you a ton different techniques and this chapter is focused to primarily off camera bare bulb flashed techniques. Now what I want to say at this point is that as you're watching these videos, if you have questions about the gear, the technology, those types of things refer back to chapter two as needed if you have questions on foundation lighting principles, soft light versus hard light, how to diffuse versus crease speculator light ambient versus flash balancing t durations and all that other kind of stuff, which we're going to of course touch on, but we assume that you already are coming into this course with that basic lighting foundation knowledge if not refer back to lighting ...

wanna one because that's where we explained all that in complete detail so let's talk about what we're doing in chapter three we're going to start things off with a steps to perfecting each shot and image when using okay, so what does that mean? Well, basically, whenever we take the flash off camera, we're now introducing another complexity, right? So in lighting one on one, it was all about shooting with on camera flash, so that way we can kind of focus just on manipulating light and so forth. But now, in addition to manipulating that light, we have to kind of worry about all the technology of getting it off camera. But then also, we have to worry about the additional shadows and light and highlights. And so for that I'm going created from these off camera light source is so it creates a little more complexity and to kind of address that in every single scene that we walk through, we're going to give you eight steps to kind of walk through on your chutes to think through the process of arriving at that final image. So that's going to be that first video? Next, we have two videos on overpowering the sun, part one and part two. Why? Because, well, we threw this as the very first video because the question that I get asked most when it comes to off camera flash is how in the heck do you overpower the sun? And usually people don't say that usually say pai mei backgrounds are all white, and my subjects are all well, when I expose for them, the background is white and when exposed to the background, they're dark and so forth this goes back to overpowering the sun and getting enough light in there and we're going to do that starting out just because I think that's what most of you want to know first then we're gonna go to slowing down and watching the details were going to take just a minute to kind of analyse shadows and analyze what makes a scene and how to kind of find, tune and refine your scene. We're to go into more power without the power. This is a little trick compositing trick that we like to use we're gonna demonstrate how we do that adding light to existing life is one my favorite uses of flash is rather than actually modifying light direction or rather than doing anything and changing anything if they're all we're doing is we're amplifying light that's already existing and it creates a really cool effect we're going to bear building with larger groups okay? So bare building meeting that we're going basically used bearable flashes toe light an entire group going to show you howto feather and set those up it's not an ideal type of technique, but it works when you're in a pinch and it's absolutely fantastic later on we'll get into our ideal techniques were going about backlighting to create interest how a simple shot that looks absolutely boring khun look amazing by just turning your flash into a backlight, and then we're going to get crazy with the whip pan. Yeah, I'm just gonna leave it at that, and I'm gonna give you any teaser on what that's about. We're gonna leave it right there. And then what's gonna happen is all. You're gonna jump toe the last video in this chapter just to see what this I know. I know you because that's, what I would do but it's gonna be cool, so that's it for introduction of chapter three. Let's. Go ahead and move to our first video and jump in.

Class Materials

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Ratings and 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.

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