Your First High Key Portrait Session | Take and Make Great Photography with Gavin Hoey
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 25 ก.ค. 2024
- What is a high-key portrait? Does it have to have a pure white background? Do the shadows need to be washed out? Can you keep a splash of color or must it have muted tones? The answer to all of the above is the same… It’s up to you.
High key like its opposite style (low key) isn’t a set of rules and as photographer Gavin Hoey explains, there’s more than one way to achieve the look. But as a general guide, a high portrait will have a mostly light range of tones though out.
Starting with the classic pure white background, Gavin shows you why getting it right is a two (or more) light setup. He then goes on to add some very simple styling in the form of white fabric over his model. That one prop helps to push the image even further toward the high key look with a light but detailed portrait.
Next Gavin switches to a more challenging style of high key, one where he keeps detail in the highlights and opens up the shadows. Once again it’s a surprisingly simple two-light set-up that does the trick and as Gavin shows, it minimizes the need for Lightroom or Photoshop post-processing.
Your First High Key Portrait Session
0:00 Intro
1:03 Preparing for high key portraits
1:43 White background looks grey
2:35 Lighting a pure white background
5:08 Pure white background photo session
6:30 Lighting an almost white background
7:24 Open up shadows with a fill light
8:47 High key near white portrait session
10:03 Conclusions and Subscribe
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Love your videos, always clear, thought out and well presented - with a focus on good instruction. Perfect, thank you 🙏
thank you Gavin! You are great as usual! - really clear step by step instruction. Will use it on coming Sunday!))
Gavin you are the best, thank you for all you do to help photographers.
I love watching Gavin! Thanks for another awesome video
Love shooting on white, this is a great vido Gavin Hoey thnaks for all you share!
I love the way Gavin introduces the awesome model Clovey. Make the model feel so comfortable, proud and valuable. In fact, so much depends on a model. A good model can make ordinary photo look extra ordinary. Clovey is one of them.
Excellent simple tips to high key photography. Thanks Gavin.
Simply amazing. Great learning with Gavin
Gavin you are so good at teaching that I have to save just about every video of yours that I watch.
clearly explained, wonderfully creative and match beautifully with your superb model!!!
Always beautiful portrait shoots. Well done
As always, excelent presentation. Thanks!
Superb, briliant! As always of course :)
Fantastic shoot! That was fun! Thanks Gavin. Thanks Chloe!
So much preparation left off-record. What an amazing background! As always Gavin does a terrific explanation on how to get a nice photo. I also wait for flash-on-location videos as the summer weather allows
They're coming... spoiler alert for next Thursdays Live Stream 😉
Great video Gavin, definitely going to try and light a white background by metering like this.
Gavin I will add that Art in general is not a set of rules that someone needs to follow rather existance of guideliness that help build the basis of it
Thank you. Amazing and easy to understand
I like that idea. I've always just made it 1 stop brighter than the main light on my subject. That makes sure it's definitely going to be white, but not so bright it blows out my subject. I'm gonna try this way though to see which I like better. :-)
Excellent Gavin!
Great fun and guide! Thx!
Another beautfiul set of images Gavin. Always a pleasure watching your videos 👍👍
Thanks Paul 👍
High Key and shadow play (your last video I watched) was exactly what I was looking for today. Thanks for making great videos. I would like to see Low Key color n BW..
Thanks, Gavin and Chloe. Always fun!
Thanks Mike 👍
Gavin is the man!
We love CHLOEEEEEEE!! Haha great stuff as always, Gavin and crew. Cheers!
perfect idea
Great video as always. Thanks Gavin, Chloe and Sam😎👍🇨🇦
Thanks Alan 👍
wow... i enjoy watching your videos so much..
Nicely done!
Very informative! Thank you.
luv it...
Great informative video love the lantern Background thanks, Gavin
Thanks Anthony 👍
Excellent set, pal
I love it as always
Thanks Moises, It's no unbelievably stunning landscape like you do but it was fun all the same.
Excellent. Well done to all. Chloe looked to have fun with all the lanterns - super backdrop/set. Tks
Thanks Alan. Simple set but a real pain to set-up when you can't see the nylon cord. I'm getting old!
@@GavinHoey not old just less young 😇
I like your ATTITUDE!
I learn so much from your videos.
You're the BEST presenter on this channel.
I love it!
Can you please do a step by step on how to shoot tethered?
Thanks for teaching! 🎓
Hi Marcus. Thanks for the kind words. I made a tethering video for Olympus UK a year or so back. The trouble with is tethering (other than the USB cable bit) there's a lot of camera specific variables.
@@GavinHoey Oh okay. Thank you!
Bravo!
Good stuff...Thank you
luv the paper lanterns props...that inspired me for an upcoming shoot...
Glad I could help Robert. Good luck with your session 👍
Excellent
High key is tricky! Thank you!
Hi Wendy. I think you're right. High key always feels more tricky than low key.
Brilliant
I don’t know why I never thought to just make the background the same exposure as the key light to get it to white! Great tips Gavin!
Hi Josh. If you mean the front and back of head flash readings that's what years of practice and countless hours of experience looks like in one clip 😁
@@GavinHoey Yes that’s exactly what I mean! Thanks again for the video, looking forward to the next one!
Thank you for such useful advice! It would be great to know how you shoot tethered with Olympus and iPad and which other options are available. C1 isn’t an option unfortunately :(
Hi Roman. That's not and iPad, it's not an android tablet either. It's my Lenovo Miix 2 in 1 tablet / laptop which runs Windows 10 and Olympus Capture
lovely video, always learn something new. Would like to take a closer look at how you (or Sam ;-) ) did the lanterns, love that idea !
Him Kim. The lanterns were just held on with super thin nylon and lots and lots of A clamps just as you see at 6:49
Great video Gavin, in the images through the viewfinder, above the exposure scale what does the green "Boost" mean?
Is it weird that I waved back at Chloe when she waved? When someone waves, I wave back... Until I realized that I was alone hahahaha. I definitely need to take more high key portraits. This should be fun! Maybe I'll even tag you on IG when I do it Gavin!!
Chloe is an amazing model
Great video gavin 👏
Kirsty! Thanks for the kind words as always.
@@GavinHoey your welcome Gavin
Well done LIKE TO KNOW ABOUT YOUR SCREEN MONITOR ATTACHED TO THE CAMERA TO SEE THE PHOTO , CAN I GET SOME INFO ON THAT TKS
the glasses was you worst touch Gav....sorry... must admit tho you are the best by far. I am doing portraits as you teach and they are coming out FAB.. thank you...
Can you tell me what model external monitor that you are using in your studio?
Oh man I love Chloe vids....hey Gav..was wondering if you have any bloopers when you film these...would be fun to see.
Bloopers Rick? I don't know what you mean. I just hit record, start talking and send it straight over to Adorama 😉
@@GavinHoey lol...this is why I'm such a fan of yours....well said!!
I'm curious what monitor/tablet that's on the stand in the background? Is that an iPad or something else? I can't see anything in the gear list in the description.
If i work with a few speedlights, the 1/8 or the 1/16 references for the lights should work for me ??
Most likely not, unless your speedlights got 200W/300W power :) Lets say your speedlights are 50W, then the 200W @ 1/4 would be 1/1 for the speedlight. So when he says 1/8, that would mean 1/2 for you and 1/16 would be 1/4 for you. But everything is depending on your speedlight power.
Ad200pro:
1/1 = 200W
1/2 = 100W
1/4 = 50W
1/8 = 25W
1/16 = 12.5W
1/32 = 6.25W
1/64 = 3.125W
1/128 = 1.5625
1/256 = 0.78125W
But my best advice would be to meter your own light if you dont have a 200 or 300. Another thing is you can match his 200W with your 50W if you turn your ISO up to 800. Then the 50W will in theory work as a 200W, but then you might get ambient light aswell.
Another factor that plays a huge role is distance; how far away your lights are. There's a lot in play, so when he says 1/8 and 1/16 its all relativly.
J'aimerais savoir si tu photographie en mode manuel ou TTL,merci.
How big is your home studio, I was not sure if it was an extension garage or a separate room being used for your home studio?
The studio is 15x17 feet but some of that space is taken up with a kitchen area. Factor in the space for the video gear and I'm around 15 X 12 feet.
Ive got to do it....LoL...Your C Stand is backwards @8:51. Im sure Seth will see it also...LoL,,,Great Video Tho...Nice one. Thank you
I'm sure it's been jotted down in the book of shame Tosh 😉
Thanks Gavin. But how do I get the white background to appear crisp white if I don't have a second light?
There are workarounds involving backlighting and reflectors at the front. But in my experience it's really a two or more lighting set up .
@@GavinHoey Ok fair enough. Thanks for the prompt reply Gavin
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High key is done post shoot production.
Sir my studio has different lights like simpex 300d and elinchrom rx400 and godox ad200 pro, so suggest me light meter that supports hss support for all these lights.
You cannot use a hand-held incident flash meter to read H.S.S. It will not work because the strobe lights will flash many times, not just once. You can only use the hand-held incident flash meter to measure the light WITHOUT H.S.S. If you are using H.S.S. on your strobe lights, set your camera on T.T.L. mode.
The Sekonic L-858D-U supports HSS. It's an expensive meter, but so far as I know, it is the only one to date (Spring 2022) that does HSS. As I look at it, the L-858 is a long term investment. It has both incident and spot metering, allows for profiling to individual cameras, visually displays dynamic range and also measures flash duration in both T.5 and T.1. If you're a video shooter it also has a wide range of video options as well. Many, myself included, view this as a lifetime meter.
I know you are probably too busy to read all the comments and less to answer, but I'll give it a go. I tried to replicate this kind of portrait, but in post, the outcome was little bit like dead body skin tone, or it wasn't washed out at all. What might be a problem?
A question about how you tether to your tablet, what software do you use ?
Hi Gregory. I use Olympus capture to run the tethering from my OM-1 Mark iii to my Lenovo Miix
@@GavinHoey Thanks
Sir Sekonic l 308x light meter Does it support for godox ad200pro
Hi Pooja. The Sekonic L-308 supports any flash as they're no radio system built in. All you do is press a button on the L-308 to prime it, fire the flash with the test button and take a reading.
@@GavinHoey Sir, when buying, the distributor says that these meters do not support for godox ad200 and godox flash, for that you have to buy sekonic l-858d.
@@poojabakery8735 It depends on what you mean "supports". The L-308 doesn't have any radio transmitter built in so it doesn't "support" any flashes. And yet it works with every flash in its own basic way.
The Sekonic L-858D-U with RT-GX module offers radio triggering for Godox and it offers high speed sync metering as well. It is pricey. That said, for basic functionality the L-308 will measure the flash output of any Godox (or other) flash when the meter is used in cordless flash mode and when the flash is not in HSS mode.
algorithm comment for the Gavster
Hi Robbie. If we're going for algorithms... let me show you a video of my cat 😉
@@GavinHoey I know that comments help boost content. If I already know what you're talking about or I can't think of something clever to say I'll write algorithm comment. I want to support you and your content for adorama but sometimes I just don't have much to say. I think you and Sam do a marvellous job!
@@teleking58 I totally get it Robbie and really REALLY appreciate it 👍
Haloo
just going to pretend the histogram bit was for me
As I was adding it I was thinking... "I bet Brian will really appreciate this" 😁
@@GavinHoey The best just keeps getting better!
You’re still getting light flare from your background light. It makes the image a little soft.
A good demo, Gavin. Cloe is beautiful.
Can you email me? There must be some safe way to get my email address from Adorama or TH-cam adding "ent" to my name here gets my full name and I am in Adorama's mailing list.
I have some low cost ideas that might help you with your studio to make better use of it. Just some ideas for things that I have added to my small 19 X 26' studio shooting room to make it more flexible and safer for both me and my models. I can't post photos here. I promise not to share your reply address, and I won't over use it either.