How to Use Artificial Light in Food Photography (Using just ONE Light Source)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 12 ก.ย. 2024
- In today's video, I'm showing you how to create two completely different artificial light setups in your food photography, using just ONE artifical light and soft box.
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You just changed the photography game for me!!! Thank yooooouu!! 🌸
A HUGE help as i am struggling to work things out from books. Delivered so clearly and calmly. Many thanks :)
Pretty ideal setting.
This video was super helpful and I think you helped me identify a problem I’m having! I don’t think I’m positioning my light high or angled down enough. Going to give that a try next time. Thank you!! Also... love that you painted your wall to be a giant backdrop. Such a clever idea.
Fabulous! Great set up + affordable too. Thank you 🙏🏻 so much.
The cinematic style in this is incredible and the info was so well delivered! Loved this video!
This video is amazing and exactly what I was looking for. Very impressive! Thank you for sharing this.
You made those green olives look delicious af in that B-roll clip. Instant subscriber. Great video and great tips!
WHAT AN UNDERRATED CHANNEL! You rock! Great, informative videos.
I appreciate that! Thank you so much!
Very informative, thanks so much
Great one, many thanks!
Thank you too!
The best video I have found on lighting for Food Photography Lauren. Thank you.
Absolutely beautiful shot!
Thanks so much Ibrahim
Thank you for this simple beautiful lesson.
I would enjoy and learn more if I see more of practical of photography sessions.
Really like the video but I LOVE the B-roll!! Good stuff!!
B Roll is the BEST! haha!
Great info in one video. Thank you...
Very helpful thank you
Doing my first food photography shoot this evening. Great video to give me some ideas. Thanks :)
Amazing! Hope it went well!
Happy enough for my first job. Onwards and upwards :)
Thank you!!! I can't wait to pursue my passion of food styling and this has really helped me with how to begin at home!
Yay! Can't wait to see what you produce Lena!
I see if I can get my camera out tomorrow and take a picture. Thanks.
Thank you. It is very useful!
So glad to hear that!
This helped me with lighting some oranges and juice in Blender.
I like how you explain things, to the point and very clear. Thanks for creating this :)
Nice lighting setup!! thanks for sharing!
Thank you!
Wonderful video, thank you for sharing your info! Looking forward to more of your video tutorials!
Many thanks for this amazing video !!! You explain so clearly that even for me who doesn't speak English very well, it is easy to understand. Can not wait to see the next one!!
Thanks so much for the lovely comment Alessandra!! I'm so glad you liked the video :) Looking forward to making more soon!
thank you SO much for posting this! Really what I need to watch when I was getting frustrated with my lights.
That's amazing Lillian! Thanks for watching and commenting!
Thanks for this video
Great video. I find food photography the most difficult so far. People's portraits are super easy comparing to food. Not sure why, but lots of pictures of food turns out mostly bad. I think it is because I have small diffuser. Will try to get a bigger one and lets see the difference. Also, my space is tiny comparing to yours, so that could be other factor. One thing though - which you probably already know by now, but CRI is not purely about daylight, but it is ability of the light source to faithfully display colours. All of them. Lights with CRI higher than 97 are pretty accurate. But light that has set temperature for 3500K will be very orange like and it can still have CRI of 97+. That means it will be radiating that colour temperature very accurately. Even though it is not really a daylight. But if you have a bi colour light with with range of 3500K - 6500K and CRI 97+ all of those colours will be very accurate. If your CRI will be lets say 92 or less you will be getting all sort of colour tints in there.
Food photography is definitely an art in itself! Thanks for the extra clarification on CRI, i'm sure other people will find it helpful!
Just stumbled across your channel and although I shoot products not good this is still really good examples of lighting. I love your video and music the quality is superb. Great job thank you 😊
Very good 👍 thanks
Very nice video. I’m sure your subs will grow rapidly. Keep up the good work. 👍🏻
Thanks so much Chris :)
Moving a large soft light further away will create an apparently smaller but less intense light source but you indicate it will be a harder light. Won't the smaller apparent size cause less soft edge shadows or hard light type shadow only if the intensity is increased to compensate for the light fall off caused by increased distance from the subject? Thank you for a well executed easy to understand tutorial. Overall a stellar job.
Thank you very informative and straight to the point ♥️
So glad you enjoyed it, thanks for watching!
Watching in 2021 and really impressed! Gave me exactly the info I needed 👍🏻
Glad it was helpful! Love artificial Light!
Thank you, you've explained me a lot!
For very dark, high contrast compositions can the light be reduced sufficiently to get the desired effect? How about using flags and diffusers to help things out?
Absolutely! Check out my dark photography video where I show you my setup with flags
Good video : ) what’s you’re reasoning behind using the 70-200? Are you looking for image compression or just favour being able to shoot further away from the scene?
Very informative. Thank you
Very nicely done video and good content
Thank you so much!
Hi,
I have did some food photography with Godox ad300pro and a TT685 Speedlight as a fill light.
I was impressed how you did yours with continuous LED light, i start to think if can i use my Nanlite FS150 to my new project.
Which one you prefer in your food photo set up?
Continuous LED light, or Strobe?
Thank you
Excellent
Thank you, very useful video!!!!
Great video
Thanks for making this video.
thank you so much for your technique sharing.
Thank you very much for this tutorial! 🤩🤩🤩
Thanks a lot
Hello Lauren! Thanks so much for posting this video. I have been looking for continuous artificial lighting and I am considering your recommendation. Are there any other accessories needed for this lighting setup other than the light and the soft box you have linked in the description? Is there a separate stand required to set up this light or the soft box? It would be helpful to know this. Thanks again!
Nicely done, and highly informative..! Greetings from Jakarta.
moreeee video pleaseeee !!! love your work btw
Definitely working on it ;)
Hi, love the video. What was the slo mo puring the olive oil shot with, speed?
Thank you so much Lauren! This is really helpful. Hitting the subscribe button right away
Super video! Have bought some lights. Will tag you when I get my first results. Peace
Inspiring! Thank you for the great idea:)
Thanks
Hi, I finally managed to buy a continuous light like this one and the difuser, could you make a video on how to shoot a tall cake with this light? I am a pastry chef and sometimes finish my cakes on the eavening and the light is gone 😄
So helpful.
You may not know how many beginners are benefitting from your videos.
It is great. Thanks you.
Very informative and practical. Thanks for this. Subbed!
Thanks Abu!
I love your work. Bye the way, what is the song name you played in this video? Please!
Heyyy I loved this video. I am a Baker and I am in the beginner phase of food photography. I am confused if I should experiment with different backdrops of different colours or just keep the background like White Monochromatic because it looks really classy. So what kind of food photography is better and more impactful according to you. The one where you maintain the same background colour for every single pic or experiment with different shades of colour and texture.
Great work, I love the results of the food photography and the video editing style, great information.
I was curious, what’s the reflector setup? Could you maybe provide links to a reliable reflector stand/holder and reflector? Thanks again, lovely job!
Hey Anthony! Sure, I use a standard reflector (gold white black and silver sides, with the inside acting as a diffuser if necessary), and this is my reflector arm that I attach to a light stand: www.essentialphoto.co.uk/product/essentialphoto-reflector-arm-holder/
Hope that's helpful!
Beauty full
Absolutely fantastic video, I have just purchased 2 Neewer 480 LED panels and am looking forward to taking some great shots. Trying to find a softbox to go with them though, as the light isn't quite soft enough.
Awesome Nick! Yeah I definitely found LED panels need some kind of diffusion, got to love a good soft box!
Wonderful my friend
I could'nt operate flashlight, I only know photography using softbox and reflector.. This video make me confidence for doing this more and more, cause I am not doing wrong my entire time hahahah.. Thank you.. 😘.
Thx for sharing your knowledge.
You're welcome Sy!
I don't care if natural light is changing a lot. I sold my two soft boxes and I am glad I did. For me, natural light is so much better. However, I liked your video and your information in it very much. Thank you for your good work.
Yeah good luck trying to shoot food a restaurants with natural light.
Wow great slow mo shots? Is this still the 80d??
Another really great video.
Thanks so much again!
Good on light explaining. Just didn’t like the way open aperture, I think with most of the subjects in focus would look much better. Thanks!
Hey Elen, Thanks for the comment! This picture was purely to show the effect the different lighting positions would have :)
Just WOOOW 👍
great work thanks for sharing.. please make another great video..
what size of lens are you using in this video? enjoyed the video ? Enjoyed the video mel
Awesome tutorial ----I love you lady !
Hi, what do you call the stand with clip that holds your large reflector? 😊
Cstand
any cheaper substitute from godox for Pixapro led200d mkii?
Your very good, keep going and do more frequently.
The CRI rating is the quality of the color rendered, not the white balance.
Hi Lauren, thank you for the amazing content! I sell pottery and other kitchen products and your videos are helping me take better photos for my social media accounts and website. I currently have a single Godox SL60W which I setup with a 120cm octagonal softbox side lighting my subject with a white reflector on the other side. My backdrop is 1 meter wide, and I place my softbox and reflector right by its edges. I have been struggling with light fall-off across my scene, my backdrop and background get significantly darker from one side of the frame to the other. I think the fall-off makes my image look a little “fake”. I’m trying to go for the indirect/window lit look and from what I can observe these types of images tend to be evenly lit across the scene (in the direction of the light source). Setting up my light to a 45-degree angle somewhat helps but I think I lose a bit of the window lit look with the shorter shadows. I imagine this kind of issue if hard to describe without seeing the actual photos, but any tip or comment might go a long way.
I don't know if I completely understand what you need, English is not my mothertong, but if I understood.
Have you tried moving your backdrop further ? It will be darker than the main subject but it will have an even light, or maybe use a grid to stop light going to the backdrop
thank you for your awesome video, I really enjoyed , keep it up :)
Yay! Thanks for the comment!
Awesome tute mate !
Thanks so much for watching!
Really nice work! Just wish this light was available in the US, any idea what might be comparable? Thanks.
Hi Spencer, I know that they ship worldwide. I would check out Godox for a comparable option. Pixapro and Godox are made together so are very similar
@@LaurenCarisShort Awesome - thx so much for the info!
When using your soft box are you using a light meter to get the correct flash exposure 1/250 shutter speed? Thanks
Dat intro !
Wow you know your stuff , the stuff that really matters an understanding of light . I have been looking for a simple way to light food in keeping with soft natural modern light looks and with as little fuss as poss as after all time is money and fussing to much with to many lights is also a distraction from say the composition for example plus I have an almost identical octo as you just a diff brand and a reflector and stand holder but I will have to use a strobe which is not a prob . I have already tried something else which is lighting from above using a boom with the subject in the rear feather edge of the light source as the edge is even softer and being forward of the subject and large it wraps for fill light but this is getting into the realms of a carry on with gear easy tipping over as is using a big scrim to soften the light even more , but yea this is your portable take it anywhere window with iso dropping power too . It is maybe just my taste but I like to see a nice soft matte finish so I will experiment further with a huge scrim , yea I know picking up specularity makes food look juicy for want of a better word but soft n dreamy I think looks classy . So for my part now I shall go experiment with this again then go knocking on chefs doors offering a free shot in the hope of being asked back for a paid one for the next menu change .
So glad you found it helpful!!
What is the canon lense you are using in this video? Is that one of the canon L series lens?
Song used and website you licensed from? This video is magic
Thanks so much! I'm pretty sure it's a song from the TH-cam creator music library which is free to access - sorry I can't remmeber the actual name I made this a few years ago!
What you think of taking these photos using an led panel?
awsome!!!!
Your video is super cool! Thanks for sharing. I forgot to ask: how do you it when you shoot with natural light but is sunny outside? Do you use any scrim on the window?
Cheers!
Hey! So glad you liked the video! The centre part of my reflector is a diffuser, so I just put that up against the window to diffuse the light. Hope that helps
Hi Lauren, great video, thanks. I wanted to ask you how you deal with ambient light when using a continuous light source?
Love your content! Are you still using this light setup? You mentioned in another video that you might get a smaller softbox. I'm in the market for a new continuous light setup. Thinking of getting an Octagon Softbox with a grid.
Yes I do still use this setup, I am probably going to get a 90cm or 120cm octagonal softbox to use when I don't have as much space, still deciding which!
One more question: In the video you are adjusting a button in the light - this is the kind of things that make me a bit scared of artificial light. How do you know what value to use?
Great video, very informative. Do you think the 100w version of this light would give good results?
Hi Steve, I haven't used the 100D myself, so I couldn't say. Would love to hear what you think if you try it!
THANK YOU!!!
Lauren, have you used the full power or dimmed it down? (I wonder whether 100D would be enough for food photography...)
You hit the nail on the head when you said food bloggers and photographers avoid artificial lighting. They never bother learning on how to shoot properly and think it is creative to have a less than technically perfect photo. Bothers me greatly how the whole industry has been devalued.
great!!