The Magic of One Light with Joel Grimes
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 13 ต.ค. 2024
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Joel Grimes has traveled the globe creating award winning images making his subjects look larger than life. Whether it is a celebrity or an everyday person, Joel believes that lighting plays a huge role in that process. The biggest challenge for photographers, learning lighting, is two fold: First, with so many options on the market, choosing the right strobe, modifier, etc… can be so overwhelming. Second, lighting is generally taught from a technical approach, making it way too complicated. We have engineers trying to teach artists, totally overlooking the creative process. This is a recipe for disaster.
Have you ever heard the acronym KISS, keep it simple stupid? Joel has this saying, “You can rock the world with one camera, one lens and one light”.
To learn lighting, you have to start by using one light. Master one light, and you can master ten lights. Follow Joel as he shows you how to create amazing portraits by using just one light.
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I cent percent agree with his statement that one may not know the terminology of Lighting but to understand what works well is super important. Great lesson. He is one of the best.
I have been a B&H customer for many years. Simply the best. Thank you B&H for bringing these amazing photographers and creative people on TH-cam.
Never watched a TH-cam video this long before and it's been time well spent. You got yourself a new "loyal" fan Joel. Thanks
I had never watched a video so long with so much pleasure. Thanks B&H
@S Tra that takes about 2 mins
Joel, your humility is your genius. I love how you totally level with us about how you came by your incredible depth of knowledge through simple experimentation. Great guy.
There are many wonderful photographers out there who teach but I absolutely love watching and learning from Joel Grimes. His down to earth teaching style and his self deprecating humor makes him so relateable. I can't say thank you enough. I have gained so much knowledge in this relatively short video seminar.
not only is Joel a master photographer, he is a master communicator. He makes me want to grab my camera and shoot. Bravo, Joel & B&H
The guy shoots full time for a job and then does 50 projects just for fun a year - that's a guy that just genuinely loves what he does. Really inspiring.
When I discovered Joel Grimes I fell in love, the guy is genuine and humble, definitely someone that loves photography and has so much knowledge. I want more of Joel.
Joel Grimes is an impeccable example of the value of practical execution. Take action. Action, action, action. Schooling is obviously extremely valuable, but we can have a way of fetishizing schooling today. To think that JOEL GRIMES doesn’t know what he’s talking about because he doesn’t keep up with the “brand names” of the lighting techniques is to express perfect ignorance, even arrogance. Phenomenal talk. Thanks for posting!
One of the best no nonsense straight forward photography lectures you'll ever watch! Master the art of ONE light, thats all it takes!
I am currently taking Joel’s course on photography lighting. He is a great teacher and I like the way he breaks stuff down. I have 13 years as a photographer and I’m always learning something new. Coming from a darkroom and film setting to now has always been a hard switch but I love photography and Joel Grimes reminds why I love what I do. I took off from photography from 2007 until 2017.
Great presenter and teacher. Thank you Joel. And great advice at the end on “building a body of work” that is unique and true to you and your style. Very insightful. 👍
What a clear explanation of how light impacts what you get in a photograph! I have read a lot about this subject, but Joel has knack for explaining this subject matter so well!
"It's easy to be me, hard to be someone else" Great quote.
Agreed
If I could only recommend one tutorial on lighting to an up and coming photographer, this would be the one! I have watched this video numerous times over the years and each time it has been illuminating.. pun intended. Thank you Joel for this priceless gift on understanding light!
What a great guy and presentation. Love it that he is so honest about his photography, really enjoyed this.
This may have been the absolute best tutorial ever on lighting - thank you B&H and Joel. Joel your work is inspirational and your attitude is a right on!
I'm just 30mins into the video and I must say what a great teacher he is. I could follow along without having to think much
Best part is at 1:40:00 in the video. Shoot what you want, get good at it, and clients will hire you for that look. Don't try to copy other people and just do YOU really really good and customers will see that and if they love what you do then you're in like Flynn. :)
Yeap. For me also is one of the key moments - Take the risk, be yourself..
But remember, "The wheel does not have to be reinvented," because influences can be taken from other photographers
Joel your honesty and sincerity defines you as a true professional who teaches from experience and from the heart. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and experience.
Best lecture i have seen! And Joel has so much passion for his job and watching this makes me really motivated to shoot some new stuff. Thanks for this.
Fantastic lecture, Joel. Thanks for your enthusiasm, your intelligence, and your experience. You make one helluva teacher, and I aspire to create the kind of art you do. Kudos.
Second time watching it and it still makes sense. Learn something from it each time. Using one light makes so much sense and I am doing that and learning a lot. Great stuff Joe. Awesome talk.
One of the best videos to understand lightiing in the simplest form. Great Joel.
Joel Grimes is amazing. Thank you B&H!
Great work again! Fantastic images and a very simple presentation by a Master of his craft. Great presentation, philosophy and skill. Thank you.
Love Joel. Really connect with the statement: "This is a great age" - we do, we live in a great age for photography.
Very talented.... Extremely humble... Great teacher...Ty B&H and Mr Grimes....
Joel is so down to earth. Love that guy.
Thank you B&H, and Westcott, for alowing us to see the art of photography trough the eyes of world's best photographers. Joel Grimes is great photographer and great person, which is easy to listen, clear to understand and enjoy to follow - he is real artist. These videos are great help for learning and making best of particular level of knowledge and equipment. Thanks!
This style of photography is fascinating. Little subtle changes to the lighting scheme can produce dramatic changes to the image.
Best part: "Failure. I'm used to that."
I've looked him up in google and he has taken really amazing portraits.
I came to watch a couple of minutes, and stayed for the whole thing. Great tutorial!
Such a great video! Thanks Joel :) I love the dramatic portraits too and have only really ever used the beauty dish - it also works incredibly well for men too! After watching this i feel like i need to print more of my images... your prints looked incredible! Thank you!
Your enthusiasm is infectious Joel, love your talks and work!
BEST photographers presentation I have seen here on YT so far - and yes, he's so absolutely right telling people to find their own style for to be found and having success in their business, it happens twice to me... THAT'S the way it is... simply do not copy and bring your own creativity in ;)
Joel - you are an inspiration. Thank you for sharing your thoughts and knowledge.
this guy rocks. Love his energy. Also very cool how he tells what a lot of top pro's say: Create your own vision
Fantastic presentation. Disclaimer: I have purchased some of Joel's courses, and I do buy from B&H; love them both.
One of the best single light presentation I've seen
Just finished watching the entire video. What an awesome inspirational piece thank you!
Such an awesome instructor and video
Amazing person 🙏🙏 Great knowledge, awesome and easy presentation. Plus so honest and down to earth. Thank you so much😀😀
I hope B&H will have Joel back real soon. I really enjoy his personality....and always learn a lot from him Thumbs up to B&H....!!!!!
Incredible, thank you very much
Thanks BnH! You folks rock! I can’t appreciate enough for the values that I’m getting! I’m a beginner with goosebumps and tingles on my body to create!
We're so glad to hear this!
Great video. Worth the whole hour and a half!
I am amazed with the energy of joel. A Great lecture. thanks.
This is the most useful information I have ever gotten on lighting, and all done in a crystal clear and informative way. This really IS lighting 101. Thanks! = )
Thankyou B& H and Joel Grimes, inspirational and exceptional at the same time
Ever since I accidentally tripped across your cowboy shot many moons ago; I’ve been enjoying your videos and tutorials. Like Bob Ross says, it’s happy accident! Thank you so much!
Some of you people need to chill.....sounding off 'Known' methods doesn't make you a expert or a master of photography...Joel admits he doesn't care what he does is called, he calls it what he calls it because its the way he saw it, tried it, liked it..and damn well uses it....just because someone else tried it before doesn't make it law...Jesus...get your thumbs from up your arses....he hasn't stated anything different...so many wannabe experts on YT it's getting like twitter.......
You tell 'em 👍🏼
The irony of your rant is obviously lost on you.
Joel Grimes: my new favorite photographer!
Fantastic video, many thanks.
You mention about shooting portraits against a grey background and blending in another background.
Does it have to be 50% grey because I can’t find anyone selling one
True natural photographer. Great presentation.
This video could very well be everything you´ll ever need to know about lighting a person.
Wonderful to watch!
My favorite so far especially the ending tip!
Joel Grimes is great! I loved this video. I can watch Joel and Joe McNally videos all day.
the very best video I have ever watched! you lite up my light bulb moment! Thank you!
Very inspirational and educating video! Thank you for sharing.
One of the best B&H class!!! Thank you and keep it up Joel & B&H
Wow, so much content in one video. Thank you so much from Germany.
Excellent Joel !!!! Really Enjoyed your presentation.
So many of your portraits look like a painting in a way.
I’ve had a load of e-mails from Joel recently (not unsolicited, I just can’t remember why I’m getting them) and I’ve largely ignored them as they come with lots of others in a cloud. Won’t be ignoring them in future. My kind of photographer.
cant believe I stay for 2 hours. Nice presentation
Thank you so much.
Thank you for this video Joel!! I'm not good at math or knowing all of the terminology. I used to belong to a camera club and they looked down at me because I didn't remember all of that so I quit. Out of all of those people in the club, there are maybe 10-15 people that are professional, earning money doing photography. I am one of maybe 5 that works as a full-time photographer.
I appreciate all of your knowledge and the way you explain it. Thank you!
Reread this statement and tell me what's wrong with it.
Great seminar! JG rocks as usual. Thanks for sharing.
Great tutorial and content, thanks Joel
hahaha so I'm a professional photographer, and I'm sort of changing fields of photography, and decided to go back to portraits with one light to test my self, and sort or reset bad habits built over a decade. There is something about the light you get from working with one light, and not having all the kicks and fills that just adds depth.
Thx lot for all the Input you gave me ! I love your Videos JG!
wow, killer images! Joel comes across as a down to earth cat, love his energy. Fantastic class!
Great Sir.. Learnt a lot.. You are a Lengend.
Totally know the guy in the first photo!! Went to Jerome, AZ a few years back and met him. He raced dirt bikes back in IL once upon a time. I took lots of photos a his place as well.
Thank you for sharing your knowledge Joel
Great video. very organic and down to earth discussion about principles of lighting. @ 1:39:00ish Good lens discussion.
that was the best video regards photography out there, thanks!
I jus learned more with this in less than 2 hours then i did 6 years of shooting . Thank you do much joel this made it simple and i finally get it !°
wow thanks Joe i found this very interesting the way you talk about light and the use of one light source. as i try to only use one speed light. i am from Cornwall uk
What a nice, enthusiastic man.
what a great bank of knowledge and tricks
Great video and highly educative.
Correct me if I'm wrong but in regard to his "rembrandt-cross light" set up, the center point of his light is technically 45 degrees from the subject he just has the box feathered at an adjacent 90 degree angle, much like a window might be. So he isn't wrong in calling that rembrandt lighting and it would be possible for rembrandt to be in the room when painting with this set up.
This is outstanding!!!
What a great lecture!
Is it just me, or is there a correlation in the shots as in: 3/4 Face -> side light; Full Face -> overhead straight-on + reflector? This is what I see in Joel's work shown here. Very interesting tutorial. I don't need to go and buy a kit of 3 or 4 lights!! Just get one!
"The size of the light source relative to the subject".
That is what you need to understand for all the other explanations. When instructors use use the above, all the rest starts to make sense.
Sir great information Thank you so much.
Thanks for sharing your time and expertise Joel. Great talk. Informative and inspirational. Those two don't always go hand-in-hand when it comes to TH-cam videos. Much appreciated!
Do anyone know or can you tell me what printer he is using I love his work great video.
Great! Thanks Joel!
Joel your amazing! Thank you for this tut.
Hi Joel, can I ask if you use filters for studio portrait photography? regards Robbie
YOu are amazing, but I wonder if you have a step by step in writing because I'm lost!!! But this is the kind of art I want to create!!! OMG I love your work!!!! BEAUTIFUL!!!!
Loved his work on die hard.
This was so cool. I wish I knew of Joel sooner 👌👍🇦🇺
Fantastic, very inspiring!
Grimey as always