Light Stacking: Two-Light Portrait Setup | Master Your Craft
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 พ.ค. 2024
- In this video, Pye shares his favorite two-light portrait setup called 'light stacking'. Watch and learn how to create a more elevated look for your portraits!
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Intro: 0:00 - 1:12
Composition: 1:13 - 2:28
Ambient Light: 2:29- 2:57
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Outro: 16:41 - 17:17
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Pye is literally the best
Wonderful advice pye.
1) Have umbrella away from the flash. And not very close.
2) Stack Light. Damn I never thought of this technique. So simple yet the results look very good.
This concept is very popular- but- usually done with a smaller harder modifier (often a beauty dish) and a bigger softer source behind (large white or diffuse umbrella is perfect) to allow for a more contrasty sculptural light on the face and a softer fill for the shadows and full body. Using a 2nd soft umbrella does not allow for the same differentiation of the look/feel of the light.
I like to listen his calm voice and very well explained video about light! I definitely going to try this technique! Thank you Pye
Pye, Renee, and Adorama, thank you for sharing this helpful information with us all, I really enjoyed this video.
All Adorama teachers are great. Thank you for this!!
This technique was used a lot in films of the 1940's and 50's where the 'punch light' was used to highlight/pick out the 'star" in the scene. There is a very good example in "Casablanca" picking out Ingrid Bergman in a group sitting around a table.
I love how I remembered the scene perfectly when you were describing the scene.
That's amazing to know! Thank you.
Thank you for revealing the secret, this tip stands behind hundreds of portraits
I literally learned about photography and lighting from Pye. Thank you!!!
This is brilliant Pye, one of the best Tutorials I've ever seen
Love to hear that! Thanks for watching!
I noticed one of my favorite photographers using this technique, but didn’t fully understand how/why - now I do! Thank you for explaining everything so slowly and gradually, and not skipping over anything. Really appreciate it
Outstanding job as usual. You have great voice tones and control. No screaming and antics, just right down to business. Love and support from Canada.
You are the best teacher I have ever seen. The way you put the material into steps is excellent. It took me all 30 mins to feel much more confident to use the Speedlight. My friend, I will subscribe to the SLR Lounge once I finish watching this video.
I’m happy to learn! 🤟🏽🤟🏽🤟🏽🤟🏽
Excellent tutorial for soft light - been looking for ages...Thank you !
so love the stept by step approach ... very well explained!
That is some gorgeous light. Well done and thanks for the vid!
Great instructional video Pye. Love it. I remember the gas station shot. It's inspired me to get one at a local abandoned garage here with an old truck and a couple models.
This simple setup is so cool. Photos come out expensive!
This is great stuff! Love these videos!
Nice! Thanks for this.
That is new to me and I like it! Thanks
Great video. I like the idea of light stacking. Thanks.
This was dope! I learned something in regards to how far to place the lights away from the inside of the umbrella! Thank you!
Beautiful set up this is very informative
Thanks! Helpful.
Nice setup 👍🏼 Gotta try it out
this is brilliant, thanks for posting
4:22 Glow umbrellas are a fraction of the price of the Profoto and I think they're made in the same factory. I got them from Adorama after owning one Deep Silver Medium Profoto for a few years.
Very nice
Awesome!! 👌
Awesome 👏🏼 Vid !!!
what a nice and pure narration
Glad you enjoyed!
Love it!!
thank you awesome video
Wonderful explanation! 👍
CAMP is as easy as Pye. I'm learning this method for my studio shoots. :) love the method you are sharing with us.
We love the C.A.M.P. Framework! It's one of our favorite tools for photographers :)
Great info, thanks!
Thanks for the two-light portrait setup video.
I tend to shoot portraits with cameras that do not have built-in light meters; therefore, I tend to rely more on handheld ambient light meters and handheld electronic flash meters.
Also, I really enjoyed watching you use that huge 6-foot shoot-thru umbrella. For full-length portraits, I use 6-foot diffusion panels instead of a large umbrella. My largest umbrella is only 40-inches in diameter.
Very clear explanation of how you build your lighting. I have had some good experiences with two softboxes (one 60x60 cm, one 120x180) kinda shoved in front of eachother. Similar effect but you can control backfround spill slightly better. Umbrellas are easier to carry though ;-)
Nice, very nice.
1:28 "Text: Canon 5D Mark VI" - Pye is now a confirmed time traveller
How is it
@@fuji3164 i think it's in an parallel universe
Great technique training...
Great job
Good one .
Master!
Great Video, super helpful! never though to stack lights before! Where can i get my hands on your lighting condition pre-sets?
thank you so much, thanks for sharing great concept flash stocking....now that youve set the correct light power set up of group b flash , do you have photo taken with only B flash is turned on and flash A turned off and compare the two? thanks
Always love your teaching. I've purchased multiple courses. All very well done! Would the same effect be possible in Lightroom with a quick radial adjustment?
Cool 😎
Pye, great work as usual man. So my question is why set up the fill first? I know there is no wrong or right between when you set up key or fill lights, and I’m guessing most of us set up key first, but what’s your mindset behind that process of doing your fill first?
Great instructional video that is clear and easy to follow. One small issue; the outside light is so bright that the white umbrellas get lost. I've noticed this on your other videos, but it really isn't as bad as with this one.
awasome content! Where did you get that backdrop ?
Спасибо за ценную информацию.
Iam a newbie and got really confused by it all. It would be nice to id. the comparison pics with Before and After. E.g. with the reflector it appeared to me the photo on the left had less shadow than the photo on the right. Usually i expect the Before on the left and the After on the right. Maybe i am just blind.
as always, pye's vids are informative and entertaining. i have started to etch his c-a-m-p way of lighting a scene into my sop. thanks for the effort and the sharing. a 60" umbrella is nice but i am often saddled by 8' ceilings. is there a smaller modifier that can also produce big/similar results? thumbs up.
Large Strip box or rectangular softbox in horizontal position then feather as you see fit...
thanks
Good stuff. Third request for the link to backdrop. Thanks!
12:26 I would've like to seen another comparison with just the large umbrella with more power to match the overall brightness of the 2 light version. It seems more effective in your full length examples 16:31 where you can actually see the small source fall off at her legs. Nice tutorial!
I was thinking the same.
Or you can start with the smaller light and closer light source as your main and add the fill later (the larger light later). It's easier if you use a light meter.
super tuto. a pity you never use lightmeter to better understand the relative powers and settings to reproduce with godox.. What are the models/diameters of these umbrellas ? i have a godox 105 and 85cm. is it enough ? Does such umbrell mimic a window in general ? I didn't dare to buy a huge rectangular softbox to do it. this setup is phenomenal !
So nice backdrop. Can we get the link to that?
Don't have the umbrella close to the flash is one tip I did not know. Also 'light stacking'. Thanks! Why don't you use a flash meter?
6:45 "I think six now". Try a Flashpoint trigger (and Flashpoint lights) some time. Then you won't have to guess at what power level your strobes are. It is insane that the Profoto trigger does not display the manually set power levels. One still has to hone in on the correct settings, of course, but it helps to know what one is starting with and where one ended up being.
I’ve never understood the Profoto triggers. For the large price tag you think they would have designed a better UX.
How do you keep up the whiteness of those umbrellas in the long run ?
12:57 that's a Magsphere not a magbounce FYI. You work for a camera gear store... that's kind of important :P
Regarding the stacked technique, I'm not sure whether you couldn't have achieved the same result with just one light source. The net effect of the two umbrellas should be a light source with a hot spot in the centre. Just using the bigger umbrella with the umbrella a bit closer to the strobe should achieve a very similar result, no? The motorbike example is different but in the portrait situation, the two stacked sources seem to be too close together and too similar in the quality of light they produce.
Close maybe, and would give you a satisfactory result you're after but with a hot spot approach like you mentioned you don't have the same versatility to control quality of light between her face and the surrounding, not to mention intensity levels between the two. Unless you meant something else entirely.
Probably you may achieve the same result using a single umbrella. Only that you might need to fiddle a bit abit to get the gradation from top to bottom. If theres any difference than the stacking technique, i reckon it would be subtle to be noticed. In fact, i was expecting at least he'll be using umbrella for fill and a small soft box for the face. More ctrl that way.
Would this technique work with 2 softbox.
Pi I loved this but it was just a few things that were confusing 1 putting one light on Chanel A and the other on Chanel b, How can they both go off at the same time
I didn't see any info on the big Translucent umbrella...🤔
First!
Nice work.
Not sure it's called light stacking. Looks like a normal 2 light setup. One for main, one for fill, and ambient fills some shadows so actually a 3 light.
We used to use a light meter. Set one light with the meter. Then set the next light with the meter. Then take a meter reading with both flashes and set camera. For a look we had already done before. Now people use a camera as the meter because they don't know how to remember what looks good to them. It's kinda weird but sign of the times. Film you had 36 shots to get it right. Digital you take 1000 shots and pick one.
I guess you're referring to the motorcycle shots?
We also had Polaroid backs to give us a proof shot. But what really matters is the end result, and if digital helps you achieve it without all the old school dilemmas then so be it. We can wax poetic about it until the cows come home, but if I had the choice, to be shooting digital in the 70s I probably would've taken it. However Kodachrome from the 50s-70s is magical. I digress, but I would never give up digital and go back.
May I know what backdrop using for this shoot?
Canon 5d Mark VI ? 🙂
Is keeping the light source as far away from the umbrella true with silver reflector umbrellas too?
Pretty sure that would still apply. The idea is to fill the entire umbrella with light.
same principle as using silver umbrella only difference is specularity
It's somewhat dependent on the umbrella shape, shallow or deep, and whether the flash head has a truly exposed flash tube, or a flat face like the B10 or B1, D1/2 series. I have the B1's and a Profoto Deep Silver Medium size and it tends to focus the light differently than my Glow Deep White 41". It feels less focused when the head is closer to the umbrella, as opposed to the White, which focuses more closer. It's no Briese or Bron Para, but it tends to give a much sharper shadow edge, which can be good for drama. Here's some BTS with my first shoot with it. I was just getting familiarized with it. www.johnmaclean.com/BTS---behind-the-scenes/16 The final here www.johnmaclean.com/PEOPLE/15
Don’t the curtains close?
Dream lens 70-200 Is II 😪
aka on axis fill
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Composition
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Modifier/Add
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First of all, I have to find a place that large enough for stacking the flash
new to me, nice. Hey if you knew anybody at a camera store, you could get some new gear....just sayin.
In the philosophy of this shot, wouldn't it make more sense to keep natural light as general filler and just one artificial punch.
Where is your light meter. Oh my gosh!
Love your videos. Just can the music. In this video it's soooo distracting.
Great info HOWEVER the annoying music is overpowering the info
Takes a lot of time. To useless things