How to use strobe lighting for portrait photography

Workshop #3 :
What Are Studio Strobe Lights?
Naming your lights on set!
A comprehensive workshop dedicated to understanding how strobes lights are used on any portrait photography set.
Todd will explain the names of each light with visual study on a model's face.

[@TimShieldsPhotography]

Absolutely awesome video!! Really well done Todd!

[@gusto519]

Great work Todd, I am looking foward to learning from future videos.

[@gagandhillon8172]

Very useful thanks

[@jaimealmeida1271]

Very useful!

[@toddy129]

thanks Jaime! hope you got something from it!

[@danerlea7318]

A deep umbrella with a difuser makes the same light like a shallow umbrella with difuser.Without difuser its other story

[@toddy129]

im not a big user of umbrella lighting, perse, as I find there is too much spill. The deep dish tends to narrow the beam of light with far less spill, from what I have learned. Id love to do a video to compare both!

[@leatherforpets3636]

why not close aperture all the way till the picture you'd take would be completely black and have the lights are your only light source ? when i use speedlights and strobes i use to take pictures like this.

[@toddy129]

Thanks for the observation! What f-stop would you be using by 'closing it up ? F22 ?

[@nicholsonsaint-ange4927]

How find the best exposure for both light without a light meter?

[@toddy129]

if you dont have a light meter, you can your in-camera meter as well for ambient exposure. For strobes , without a dedicated flash meter, youd have to 'eye ball' it, and continually change the power setting of each flash until you are satisfied with the results. Trial by error , and its tedious especially when using 3 or more strobes!

[@nicholsonsaint-ange4927]

@@toddy129 so helpful, thank you so much brother 🙌🏽🙌🏽

[@videos4mydad]

is the video 720p for anyone else?

[@toddy129]

Do you need it higher res for your screen?