1 Bare Bulb, 3 Different Fashion Images | Inside Fashion and Beauty Photography with Lindsay Adler
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 มิ.ย. 2024
- You don’t need a lot of complicated gear to create exquisite fashion images. That’s just the truth! In fact, a single bare bulb strobe and a white background will do the trick.
What is far more important? It is essential to put something compelling in front of your camera and to sculpt the light to create interesting imagery.
In this video, I show you three different fashion images using a single hard light (no modifiers) and a clean white background (Super White from Savage Universal). The results are timeless black and white fashion images that could grace the pages of the most exclusive fashion magazines- it's all about the content and execution, not complex lighting setups or over-the-top sets.
Let’s take a look at the ingredients.
Camera/Lens: In all of these shots I utilized the Canon R5 and the Canon RF 24-105 because this combination provides me with a great deal of versatility. I was able to get full-length shots, mid-length shots, and even close-ups without ever changing my lens. The camera has a great dynamic range and plenty of megapixels to work with, plus its face and eye-tracking helps with moving subjects.
Setup 1:
In this setup, I placed my subject as close to the white background as possible, with her body casting a shadow behind her. Next, I took the bare strobe head and moved it as far away from my subject as I could in my space. This helped to create extremely hard light with a very crisp shadow edge behind her.
Next, I varied the angle (height) and position (side-to-side) of the strobe to change the size/shape of the shadow behind our subject. For this image, I was inspired by the work of Herb Ritts, and a relatively more subtle shadow was appropriate.
Setup 2:
In this setup, I used a bare strobe to light the subject and introduced a flag into the equation. A flag is anything that is used to block the light. I introduced a piece of Cinefoil (black tin foil) in between the light and the subject to create a crisp shadow on the subject’s face and background. We varied the angle and position of the Cinefoil on the subject’s face to create
Setup 3:
Lastly, I placed a bare bulb pointed at the background on high power. The light then bounced around the space, reflecting off of the walls, floor, and ceiling. This created a fill light on the subject, even though no direct light was hitting our subject. For this shot, there was a significant lens flare in the bottom of the frame, but this was used to create a moody effect. Because of the backlit nature of the image, the contrast was added in post-processing for a more pleasing effect (and true black point).
If you want to see more about how I use a single light to craft gorgeous fashion images, be sure to check out my class One Light Artistry at lindsayadler.photo/onelight
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✘ PRODUCTS USED:
Canon R5
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Canon RF 24-105mm 4.0
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Profoto D2
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Savage Universal - Super White
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Cinefoil
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Photographer: Lindsay Adler
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Videographer - Samuel Bouret
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Makeup: Joanne Gair
Hair: Linh Nguyen
Styling: Raytell Bridges
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Love this video Lindsay Adler, its good to be shown that sometimes keeping things minimal can lead to awesome shots! Thanks ADORAMA for having someone of the level of Lindsay Adler on your great channel where we can see all that is possible with the great Gear you guys have available at your store and stie!
Alexander you are so so kind. I thank Adorama for giving me such a fabulous platform to share!!
You make it look so easy, Lindsay! Thank you for sharing your talent!
awww.. :D. My team makes it look easy to be fair. :D.
Your videos always gives me joy.
And that's how you do it folks ! Just a camera , one light and passion !
I always forget how simple those $2500 single light setups can be!
The results are awesome, very 90s Vogue supermodel style :)
thank you.... exactly the vibe I live for!!
8:35 that is a perfect, very beautiful shot! 😍
Favorite contributor.
Sage advice.
Lindsay is the best!
Yeah, well, I was prepared to not like #3- a low, single bare bulb light bouncing upward? Are you kidding me? A Halloween flashlight effect? Right. What do I know? What I should know is Lindsay Adler can make anything look like a plan. Well done! My take away from this is I do need to experiment more. Once again, you're the real deal. Thanks for sharing this eye-opener!
hahahahah you crack me up
Absolutely outstanding work, wow 😮 Thank you for sharing and being such an inspiration!
Lindsay Adler never fails to impress
Loved this tutorial. Thanks so much.
Stunning!!!
You are wonderful Lindsay! Very informative tutorial! God bless you!
Great tutorial with beautiful captures! Loved all the setups but the last one really caught my attention. Well done Lindsay!
Thanks so much!
Beautiful work. Full of inspiration. Thank you.
thank so much Lindsey, so amazing👍👍
Great as always, especially as it’s high contrast stuff which you are just the Queen of.
hahaha thank you
Lindsay is an awesome presenter and educator
Masterclass!!! Thank you. Thank you for this class!!
When I saw the thumbnail I knew it was our hall of fame photographer....
awwwwwwww.
Love it! One of those pictures were kinda giving me checkerboard lighting(I think from what I learned from your other video)! Love it!
yasssss
Thank you for the instruction!
Phenomenal techniques! Going to try out these photoshoot ideas!
Enjoy!
I'm going to try the third one tomorrow. Thanks for the great tutorial!
Great video
Awesome!! I try to watch Adorama since it has great content and great instructors. Especially Lindsay Adler. Hope to see more of her this fall and next year.
Oh yes very nice - despite several years experience/practice I still often find myself a little overwhelmed when I have a model in front of me even though planned ideas and moodboard and what lighting and modifiers but I start to re-think and over think the lighting and modifier choices and change mind - going back to the most basic bare bulb has saved me a few times as i then build back up from there - thanks so much for confirming in my mind this is a valid approach!
I know that feeling all too well!
I like your shirt too , looks good on you
Thank you to share your experience with us!
Wonderful to hear. xo
You gotta see her work in person. I have several times its an amazing experience
awwwww thank you.
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Thanks! 🙂
Great!!!
Well done.
wonderfully inspiring and beautifully easy to understand with elegance.. i'm glued to your videos.. would love to see you as model, you have a lovely beautiful look!!
Why are you sooo nice!?
@@lindsayadlerphoto i truly love your style of contents, your models choice, how simple set-up can do superb images and your elegance (you look always superb)!! ..sometime you speak too fast for me but it's only because my english is not great.. don't stop to continue your wonderful and inspiring creativities!!
This woman has a high pitch and I am loving.
lol
Thank!!!
1. Doesn’t need a lot of complicated gear.
2. Sculpt the light.
Lesson taken.
Do you have a favorite program that you use with your tether tool?
Profoto Hardbox next 👏
Usually with a bare bulb setup you get double shadowing transition edge, so I attach tissue paper over the front of the flash with lightly softens that edge.
Thank you for all informations and I hope if you give your camera settings 😊
Lovely video. Thanks. Please can you share the name of the stands and the pole used for holding the backdrop?
Manfrotto autopoles!
Is the flash coming from the single strobe that's being used as a consistent light? I didn't know strobes can be a consistent light and flash when you press the shutter button at the same time.
This was great Lindsay, I was curious if you TTL'ed your exposure or metered to get the D2 to power to the F-stop you wanted. Thank you for sharing...
Metering... or guessing. :D. Like the lost shot it was definitely a guessing game to get it to look 'right'
This is a great, simple tutorial that is SO telling -- taking gear largely *out* of the equation can demand even greater inspiration and planned artistic outcomes. Really good stuff. One aside -- am I the only old-timer out there who was surpsied that Ms. Adler described her lighting as "bare bulb"? I saw a strobe without softobox or umbrella, but the tube was still focused and directional by cirtue of its mount. My vocabulary, I think shared by others, might call that a "bare" or even "unadorned" strobe, but would reserve "bare bulb" to a fully exposed bulb spilling its light in an even broader pattern. Anyone else have a similar reponse? PS My focus on vocabulary isn't about "I'm right and you're wrong," but more about consistency so that teaching and sharing information are made easier by a true common vocabulary. I'm wondering if I have an overly limited view of the term "bare bulb." Thanks, Ms. Adler!
Hmmm... maybe just bare? cause the bulb isn't bare. But bare sounded funny. That sounds fair to me! So Bare strobe?
I imagine with a relatively plain background like this it wouldn't be terrible to have a bit of the cinefoil visible in the corner of the frame, since it wold be fairly easy to paint it out in post.
totally true. agreed!
Well, that's not a "bare" bulb, as the bulb in those Profoto D's is inside a plastic tube, so spreads differently from a proper bare bulb, that sprays light all over, especially on sides and even partially behind itself, so you do have much more light reflection and color contamination from walls and stuff around. That's actually like a bulb inside a small reflector, tbh.
So, bare head then I suppose?
I love the concept , real beautiful. abut how do you get it to look pure black & white like that ? Do you just enable black & white in capture one or do you mess around with saturation ?
contrast contrast contrast all day!
What lightstand are you using?!?
Where can I get that lightstand and boom arm?
If you check out my videos here on Adorama TH-cam I have a whole video about the stands I use. :D
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Herb Ritts, Helmut Newton, Richard Avedon & Peter lindbergh were all incredible, Lindsey is the closest today with that brilliant style- yet with her creativity and her originally mixed in--bravo!! 👍
Meeeeeeeega