Thanks Alan. Usually I try out the mad ideas before asking my model but in this case I couldn't get into the tube. Good job Chloe is such a professional!
I love watching you get such great and dramatic shots from a relatively simply approach. It’s a testament to your skill and your through understanding of light and technique. I’ve been shooting for 40 years and I still learn things from your videos.
You are so right about an easy to set up softbox. Rod and speedring softboxes are a night mare to deal with. An umbrella style softbox with a boom arm is preferable.
Brilliant again from gavin and the team. Simple but so dramatic. Loved the last set up with softbox with grid close to the backdrop. Will be giving that a go for dure
At the beginning, I thought this wasn't going to be that interesting. I should have know that you always do interesting shooting examples. Thanks again !!!
thank you for your educational content. I have been learning so much from your videos. I really enjoy watching them. The last lightning position was awesome.
Wow, that was so Elle, Vogue and Glamour Magazine. You did that so easily with one light too. That was the kind of demonstration we used to get at the School of Visual Arts back in the 1980's Great work. Keep up the Great work.
Just love love love your you tube videos. Great presentation on how you break it down. Would love to see some mores simple ideas for children portraits ( especially as you don’t have an experienced model)
Fantastic tutorial as always Gavin. Great to meet you at the Photography Show on Monday and thanks for the impromptu photo. Films in the post to be developed so fingers crossed 😊
Thank you Gavin for another great tutorial! I always look forward to your videos. The results at the end were really superb and Chloe was quite funny when she moved around in the tube 😁👍
That collapsible softbox would be wonderful! Mine are such a pain to setup that I did it once when they arrived and they have never been collapsed again. I transport them face down in the back of my car. And at home they live on the C-Stands or stacked in a corner.
Hey, Gavin. This video is so useful!! It answers the questions I have before! Thank you! The final "Tube" outfit is very interesting. Do you know how can I get one? Thank you again :)👍
Gavin, while I loved everything about this video, I must ask: isn't there equal importance on a good stand for a first light box? Yours seems so versatile and it helped you with your options. I get the feeling that a good stand is almost as important for expanding the options available to a photographer. Could you expand a little on stands?
It looks like a standard C-stand. Possibly with a sliding leg. Personally I like the Neewer ones as they're cheap but as durable as you'd expect from a C stand. You could throw these things off a roof and it would likely be just fine.
Hi Randy. I recently had the misfortune to be given a terrible stand for a session (long story) so you're 100% correct... adding it to my "to do" list now 👍
As always, very well done and extremely informative! Even though I've been shooting for quite a few years, I always learn more about the art from your videos! - I love the shots of Chloe in the stretchy fabric tube! May I ask where one can buy it? .. Thank you!!
I have so many low key videos on Adorama TV you shouldn't have to look to hard to find what you need. Start here th-cam.com/video/MNpOYCSa9bg/w-d-xo.html
I could watch your videos all day. So entertaining and informative! Where will the subscribe text appear this time??? If you were lighting a headless mannequin for a full length photo, at what height would you place the rectangular soft box(es)? Would you place the shoulders of the garment in the centre of the soft box?
you did a video with the 3-flash Flashpoint/Godox lighting kit (3-300s, stands, couple of boxes and an umbrella in a case. it took me 15 minutes to get one softbox put together. the second one was about the same amount of time. i have them stacked up on a high shelf and rarely even consider getting them out because i bought some Glow ex-up (whatever theyre called) and like that smallrig box of yours, 12 seconds and ready to go. Chloe's make up reminds me of Pris (Daryl Hannah) in Blade Runner (1982). WHERE did you get that material? that was the coolest thing. or whats the best description of it so i can look for some
Hi Gavin, I have tried to find the tube outfit for the last 2 weeks, I even bought one I thought it would work but it is not stretchy enough, I also googled for stretchy tubular fabric but did not work out. Could I pretty please ask you to try to find more details on how did you purchase yours? many thanks and thanks again for a great tutorial.
I knew from the thumb nail this was you as recognised Chloe and the tube dress from last weekends UK photography show ! 😊 was lovely to see you there. At the show you had a pop up back ground on a light stand. How was it attached? Was a magnetic manfrotto ‘clamp’ ?
Thank you Gavin for your amazing Videos. Especially the last setup was amazing. If you don't mind me asking: Is the light falloff at the end setup so strong, that the reflection from the white wall isn't that strong to fill in the shadow side? It bounces a little bit but not as much as I would expect
Thank you! Great as always! Being a PC and Android user, any suggestions for lighting diagrams? You said before that you use Photoshop, but where can I find the Photo Gear Clipart? Fellow OM SYSTEM Shooter!
Hi Raymond. My lighting diagrams are all my own work and have eveloved over time. There's some great software and even some free diagram tools online but I've not tried any to be able to recommend them.
I noticed you took the light reading from the model's point of view, pointing the meter at the light source instead of pointing it at the camera. Pointing the meter at the light source gives you a reading of the full light hitting your subject, but pointing the meter at the camera will give the reading of what the camera will see. Am I incorrect?
I meter for the highlights (pointing the dome at the light) but way, WAY more importantly I always meter towards the light. Right or wrong, it's consistent and that's what really matters.
Hi Nicolas, what do you need to know? I use a Tethertools USB cable to connect my camera to my laptop and Olympus Capture software to connect the two. Olympus Workspace software displays the imported photos in full screen.
uh oh... you are gonna get yell at by Seth... He just spent half of his last live video saying those diffusers don't make light "softer" but more defuse aka less specular highlights. 😅 I'm with you tho... I still say "softer" 🤘
I dunno about the below comment re: skill of Hoey. First off, the Softbox Above position was, well, just plain wrong. It needed to slide toward camera 2.5-3'. THEN it would have had a nice presentation. He also falls into the same trap most wannbe teachers do, never explains WHY to do anything (just put the center of the box closer to the head height). Why? Once you understand that the human brain is programmed from birth to expect light sources from above (aka the sun) then it makes sense. Its not that light from other directions is bad per se, just not what the average person is accustomed to seeing. Moreover, the examples using the various light modifiers (diffusers, grid), sorry, but I've viewed tens of thousands of frames of film (yeah, real honest-to-God film) and the only place I could really see a difference in the lighting was on the WALL. I can't remember the last time I shot a blank wall, I want to see the FACE. Then let's talk about the use of single light source photography. ESPECIALLY when shooting people, unless going for a special effect, you never light so far from the side without a fill source, be it a card or other reflector (hey, an unpowered softbox works fine). People lighting, 1:2 highlight to shadow ration or about 1 stop difference. Either that or you move the light much closer to the camera axis. I won't even touch the subject of silvered vs white box interior or why and how the diffuser material actually works.
Undisputedly the best teacher i have seen on TH-cam.. 🇿🇲 here
yep. i wont subscribe to adorama because i only want to see Gavin
yes gavin is the best and funny teacher definitely
Loved the final "tube" outfit, and the last lighting position being so close. Very dramatic. Well done to all !
Thanks Alan. Usually I try out the mad ideas before asking my model but in this case I couldn't get into the tube. Good job Chloe is such a professional!
Love this as well
where can I find the do a "tube"?
Always a treat! Thank you 😊
Those last shots are fab! Thanks for reminding everyone elegant magic can from a single-light setup.
Thanks Joel. Sometimes one light is plenty and when it works it's so nice!
I love watching you get such great and dramatic shots from a relatively simply approach. It’s a testament to your skill and your through understanding of light and technique. I’ve been shooting for 40 years and I still learn things from your videos.
soft boxes, informative content Thanks Gavin.
Thanks John. The first 40 seconds were probably the most informative 😉
Great Content - Great Pictures - Great Fun
Summed up in one word: Awesome
Yes!!! A new Gavin video.
One of the best ever, ( that I have seen), videos about softboxes, congratulations mr. Gavin.
Thanks João 👍
You are so right about an easy to set up softbox. Rod and speedring softboxes are a night mare to deal with. An umbrella style softbox with a boom arm is preferable.
Another brilliant tutorial Gavin. Those shots of Chloe at the end looked fantastic 😊👍
Thanks Paul, Chloe makes my job nice and easy.
Great video Gavin & Chloe!!!
GAVIN - thanks for the masters courses in photography - stay well.
Thanks Gavin,Chloe and Sam!😎👍🇨🇦
Thanks Alan 👍
Very nice & simple way to explain ❤❤❤
I love your movies! Your way to explain everything and also the way how you speak to the models. That Was really inspiring. Thank you!
M Á S T E R!!! Gavin ,excellent 💪🏻📸
This was a great refresher, even for someone who's been working with softboxes for years.
You are so educational.
Superb demo
Chloe looked like she was having fun with this one. Very cool fashion shots.
Brilliant again from gavin and the team. Simple but so dramatic. Loved the last set up with softbox with grid close to the backdrop. Will be giving that a go for dure
Love the last shots with the tube! Chloe's makeup was killer!
Thanks, Chloe was her own MUA on this one and totally smashed it!
Oh this wrapping gives me an idea for Christmas shooting…
If I was startup or new photogapher, I would consider home or rental studio. Great instruction from top photographer. Thanks.
Always excellent presentations from him.
very good video ... thanks
At the beginning, I thought this wasn't going to be that interesting. I should have know that you always do interesting shooting examples. Thanks again !!!
Thanks Michael. In my mind technical videos without application is only half the story 😉
thank you for your educational content. I have been learning so much from your videos. I really enjoy watching them. The last lightning position was awesome.
Chloe looks great. Lots of drama " for your mama "...lol.Great video as usual Love the moving camera all over the set....Well done Sam....
Sam has totally got the hand of the little DJI Pocket 2 camera :)
Very beautiful results I love watching you
Beautiful pictures!!!
Always great Gavin!
Another really great, achievable video. Tube photos at the end are amazing. Definitely one to try
Awesome!! One of your best. Hardly wait for the next video.
Great as always. Many thx Gavin!
Love all your videos. You are great!
I always click the like button before watching Gavin Hoey. I was able to overcome the fear of using OCF after watching your video series!
Thank you 👍
Very beautiful results, love the final lighting also, so very interesting! You are giving us such an amazing foundation and much more!!
Wow, that was so Elle, Vogue and Glamour Magazine. You did that so easily with one light too. That was the kind of demonstration we used to get at the School of Visual Arts back in the 1980's Great work. Keep up the Great work.
Thanks Darren. Yep... one flash, one quick test shot and one model happy to go along my my mad cap idea 😉
Great as usual 👊🏻👊🏻👊🏻
Just love love love your you tube videos. Great presentation on how you break it down. Would love to see some mores simple ideas for children portraits ( especially as you don’t have an experienced model)
Hi Lee-Anne. I've had experience with child and family photography in the past and think that anyone who does that regularly is super human!
That was a fun shoot and some great info Gavin.
Thanks Brad, working with Chloe is always fun!
Another great video. No more cloning out sockets from your space either!
Still deciding what to do with the walls but yes, no more random plug sockets 👍
Love it! Got my first studio flash and softbox at The Photography Show last weekend and can’t wait to try all these out this weekend!
Well how exciting is that. Looking forward to seeing your learning curve 👍
Gavin, you teach so well and make things simpler. Thank you.
Brilliant Gavin ,,, loved the shots,,, Sometimes going back to basic can surprise you,,, Minimum set up and great results.
Thanks Ray. If I can make nice photos with basic kit I figure that when the day comes, I'll be OK on something bigger 😉😉
Love the video great talk
Fantastic tutorial as always Gavin. Great to meet you at the Photography Show on Monday and thanks for the impromptu photo. Films in the post to be developed so fingers crossed 😊
Great top meet you too and even better NOT to be photographed on a phone :)
Thank you Gavin for another great tutorial! I always look forward to your videos. The results at the end were really superb and Chloe was quite funny when she moved around in the tube 😁👍
That collapsible softbox would be wonderful! Mine are such a pain to setup that I did it once when they arrived and they have never been collapsed again. I transport them face down in the back of my car. And at home they live on the C-Stands or stacked in a corner.
Hi Davis. Sounds like you can relate to the first 40 seconds of this video as much as me!
Gavin, you are and endless source of useful information and ideas (even in such a 'basic' subject I was tempted to skip... silly me)
Alway love your videos! Thank You!
Thanks Robert 👍
Hey, Gavin. This video is so useful!! It answers the questions I have before! Thank you! The final "Tube" outfit is very interesting. Do you know how can I get one? Thank you again :)👍
Good stuff Gavin Hoey.
Hey...can you do a shoot in studio, with some foreground bokeh?
Should be fun.
THANKYOU
Gavin, while I loved everything about this video, I must ask: isn't there equal importance on a good stand for a first light box? Yours seems so versatile and it helped you with your options. I get the feeling that a good stand is almost as important for expanding the options available to a photographer. Could you expand a little on stands?
It looks like a standard C-stand. Possibly with a sliding leg. Personally I like the Neewer ones as they're cheap but as durable as you'd expect from a C stand. You could throw these things off a roof and it would likely be just fine.
Hi Randy. I recently had the misfortune to be given a terrible stand for a session (long story) so you're 100% correct... adding it to my "to do" list now 👍
Thanks Gavin, great tutorial. Any idea where one can purchase the "tube" outfit?
As always, very well done and extremely informative! Even though I've been shooting for quite a few years, I always learn more about the art from your videos! - I love the shots of Chloe in the stretchy fabric tube! May I ask where one can buy it? .. Thank you!!
Thanks for the kind words. The fabric came from an online fabric store. I think it was listed as 70cm diameter stretchy tubular fabric.
Gavin is such a nice fella.
Thank you Chris 👍
Good lesson. I would like to see some Low Key tips or low saturation type.
I have so many low key videos on Adorama TV you shouldn't have to look to hard to find what you need. Start here th-cam.com/video/MNpOYCSa9bg/w-d-xo.html
What is the official name of the “tubular fabric”? The whole video was informative, but the creativity you showed using the fabric was amazing.
I wanted to ask the same thing. I have something similar... somewhere that I forgot all about and never used that I should look for.
I could watch your videos all day. So entertaining and informative! Where will the subscribe text appear this time??? If you were lighting a headless mannequin for a full length photo, at what height would you place the rectangular soft box(es)? Would you place the shoulders of the garment in the centre of the soft box?
you did a video with the 3-flash Flashpoint/Godox lighting kit (3-300s, stands, couple of boxes and an umbrella in a case. it took me 15 minutes to get one softbox put together. the second one was about the same amount of time. i have them stacked up on a high shelf and rarely even consider getting them out because i bought some Glow ex-up (whatever theyre called) and like that smallrig box of yours, 12 seconds and ready to go.
Chloe's make up reminds me of Pris (Daryl Hannah) in Blade Runner (1982).
WHERE did you get that material? that was the coolest thing. or whats the best description of it so i can look for some
Hi Gavin, I have tried to find the tube outfit for the last 2 weeks, I even bought one I thought it would work but it is not stretchy enough, I also googled for stretchy tubular fabric but did not work out. Could I pretty please ask you to try to find more details on how did you purchase yours? many thanks and thanks again for a great tutorial.
Thanks Gavin and the wonderful Chloe. Where can I book her??
I knew from the thumb nail this was you as recognised Chloe and the tube dress from last weekends UK photography show ! 😊 was lovely to see you there. At the show you had a pop up back ground on a light stand. How was it attached? Was a magnetic manfrotto ‘clamp’ ?
It was indeed a magnetic clamp 👍
Thanks
Great video! Can someone share where to get this tubular fabric from?
Just enjoyed your video sitting in the sun in Austria. Another great video, just wondering were you got the tubular fabric from.
Hi Jan, sounds like a lovely location. The fabric came from a random online fabric retailer. I just Googled stretchy tubular fabric.
@@GavinHoey thanks
Great video
Thank you Kirsty 👍
@@GavinHoey your welcome
where can I find the do a "tube"?
Great Job!
Thank you Gavin for your amazing Videos. Especially the last setup was amazing. If you don't mind me asking: Is the light falloff at the end setup so strong, that the reflection from the white wall isn't that strong to fill in the shadow side? It bounces a little bit but not as much as I would expect
Hey Gavin, nice work as usual. where can I find some of that tubular, stretchy material?
Hi Kavan. Google those exact words, it worked for me.
@@GavinHoey very cool. Thank you very much 😊👌🏾
Thank you! Great as always!
Being a PC and Android user, any suggestions for lighting diagrams? You said before that you use Photoshop, but where can I find the Photo Gear Clipart?
Fellow OM SYSTEM Shooter!
Hi Raymond. My lighting diagrams are all my own work and have eveloved over time. There's some great software and even some free diagram tools online but I've not tried any to be able to recommend them.
super
i live in Africa- kenya how do i get the equipment's mostly soft boxes
Where did you get the red stretchy tubular fabric from?
Note that white walls and corner reflect maximum light.
is there a blu light for the background?
I noticed you took the light reading from the model's point of view, pointing the meter at the light source instead of pointing it at the camera. Pointing the meter at the light source gives you a reading of the full light hitting your subject, but pointing the meter at the camera will give the reading of what the camera will see. Am I incorrect?
I meter for the highlights (pointing the dome at the light) but way, WAY more importantly I always meter towards the light. Right or wrong, it's consistent and that's what really matters.
i see GAVIN HOEY, i watch
Thanks Ken 👍
what do you think of a softbox with a black inner
where i can buy the dress tubular stretchy fabric?
Can you talk about your tethering set up?
Hi Nicolas, what do you need to know? I use a Tethertools USB cable to connect my camera to my laptop and Olympus Capture software to connect the two. Olympus Workspace software displays the imported photos in full screen.
Refer to the title, so I should get my first 60*90 one? how about 80*80?
I plan to buy one then a 95cm round one, pls comment
What Light Meter are You using?
uh oh... you are gonna get yell at by Seth... He just spent half of his last live video saying those diffusers don't make light "softer" but more defuse aka less specular highlights. 😅 I'm with you tho... I still say "softer" 🤘
useful
Where'd you get the tubular material outfit?
From a random online fabric store. I just searched for stretchy tubular fabric.
I dunno about the below comment re: skill of Hoey. First off, the Softbox Above position was, well, just plain wrong. It needed to slide toward camera 2.5-3'. THEN it would have had a nice presentation.
He also falls into the same trap most wannbe teachers do, never explains WHY to do anything (just put the center of the box closer to the head height). Why? Once you understand that the human brain is programmed from birth to expect light sources from above (aka the sun) then it makes sense. Its not that light from other directions is bad per se, just not what the average person is accustomed to seeing. Moreover, the examples using the various light modifiers (diffusers, grid), sorry, but I've viewed tens of thousands of frames of film (yeah, real honest-to-God film) and the only place I could really see a difference in the lighting was on the WALL. I can't remember the last time I shot a blank wall, I want to see the FACE.
Then let's talk about the use of single light source photography. ESPECIALLY when shooting people, unless going for a special effect, you never light so far from the side without a fill source, be it a card or other reflector (hey, an unpowered softbox works fine). People lighting, 1:2 highlight to shadow ration or about 1 stop difference. Either that or you move the light much closer to the camera axis.
I won't even touch the subject of silvered vs white box interior or why and how the diffuser material actually works.