Can I Recreate this Famous Portrait? (Michelle Pfeiffer by Terry O'Neill)
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In this video I attempt to break down the beauty lighting in this famous portrait of Michelle Pfeiffer by Terry O'Neill, and then to recreate the same look using 'clamshell lighting' in my garage studio to see what I can learn in the process.
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Oh, Sean. You have no idea how much I appreciate your videos. I’ve been watching for years and learned so much. The last one from this series I was definitely there commenting on how much I appreciated it and wanted more. Thank you one more time for a second video on this series!
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Fantastic video! I think with this reference it might have been interesting to mention hair and makeup - imo some of the choices made in those areas really make O'Neill's photo stand out
Yeah the hair styling makes such a huge difference
Beautifully done, Sean. A quick note on Michelle’s pupils/iris size; the lighting may have been strobes too, I’m able to achieve her look with the modeling lamps constricting pupils too
That was my thinking.
Wonderful portrait! The break down from light setups to editing is excellent. Thank you!
I miss seeing your videos more often and honestly I love your portrait videos! Please more!
Beautiful portraits, both. And great tutorial! Thank you!
This is a great look! I’ve found that a close silver beauty dish with a fine grid accentuates the light drop-off and really carves out the cheeks without the black boards on each side.
Thanks Sean! I thoroughly enjoyed this video and I'll check out the other "dissection". MORE PLEASE!! Cheers.
Great video one of the best channels for learning photography on TH-cam appreciate so much that you are one of the few photographers that actually give us real information to let us grow instead of just doing self advertisement like so many others do here. I would really love to see more of that how to series ❤
I love that in your tutorials you always drop tips and tricks which are just simple and quick. No need to overcomplicate or watch an in depth tutorial
Thanks so much for another one of these Sean. I don’t even really shoot portrait photography but these videos are so interesting and fun both for the rationale and deduction of the lighting techniques and then the processes of taking and editing. So enjoyable and informative.
Many thanks Sean for your great tutorial. I would love to see some Hurrell type lighting for b&w.
I absolutely love this type of content as I am always trying new lighting styles. Thank you so much for the tips on not doing too much retouching.
absolutely love these kind of videos. please do continue to post such tutorials.
Your lighting abservation is great, and I liked the final result. Thankyou sean.
This is brilliant, really interesting to see how you study & break down the original picture to then rebuild to create a similar one, which looks amazing. Thank you.
Thanks Sean, this is my style of shooting and you've brought to my attention some techniques I'll be implementing in the future.
It is really very instructive, and following you destructuring and analysing is a real pleasure. Please continue.
Excellent Sean. Great job and beautiful model!!! Ailona is so beautiful as Michelle is!!! Congratulations👏👏👏
Wonderfully done mate. I prefer your shot to be honest. Ailona is stunning. Can’t wait till the next one.
Excellent video. I really appreciate the simple techniques and restraint in the retouching. Thanks.
Love this kind of videos...!In this photo of Michelle, can be appreciated the perfect symmetry of her face...the perfect face
Brilliant work, really interesting seeing how to replicate a lightning set-up 👍🏻 great work, thanks very much. Ryan.
I don’t do any portraiture ….but I found this video absolutely fascinating to experience…with a truly stunning result ! It was almost like watching a meticulous forensic scientist examining a scene for clues. It really made me appreciate how much can go into great photographic art. ( for what its worth Sean, I preferred your result!) couple of ideas..Che Guevara by Rene Burri (1963) , Thomas Hoepker Muhammad Ali ‘s fist (1966) both seen in “Magnum contact sheets”..
This channel is such a gem. Hard to believe that all this amazing content is available for free.
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Excellent video, Sean 👍
Enjoyed very much. Lovely work, well presented!
Wonderful work and demonstration!
Spot on analysis of the lighting. The light behind is a large rectangular strip light place behind the model and facing upwards giving that soft gradual gradient. I think, he shot this portrait with a Hasselblad 500 CM and probably an 60mm or 80mm Zeiss lens.
35mm equivalent?
@@NickStreeter There is no equivalent of an 80mm on medium format for 35, simply due to the fact that the aspect ratios are so different. A 45mm lens would have the same horizotal FOV as the 80mm on 6X6, but if you want to get the same aspect ration as the original, then you'd have to use a 35mm lens and use the central square of 24X24mm on the 35mm format. If you have one these dangled fangled mirroless cameras, it might allow you to crop square in camera or even in the EVF.
Thank you Sean for this fantastic tutorial! Love your style of teaching and your creativity!
Very well done..Congrats Sean.
Love these lighting videos! FYI: The blog, "Guess the Lighting," that Sean mentions can be found on the Internet Archive.
Yes, I found this very informative and presented is a very clear and precise manner. Thank you.
Fantastic man, I think you nailed it. Really impressed, cheers!
Very nice idea Sean. Lot to learn with this approach. Many thanks.
Thank you!! Wonderful video!
I really liked this style of video. I thought your depth of explanation was pitched perfectly.
Sean, this is very, very, very good video. Great job!
Sure do more of these videos, i always learn a lot of it for myself and my own photography journay. Thank you for your work.
Fantastic example, thanks for step by step with explanations!
When I hit ▶️ on this I was hopeing to watch a good video on lighting, I didn’t, I actually watched a FANTASTIC insight to lighting via one of the very best YT’ers on the platform.
Thx Sean, this has been the elixir that I needed for my photography.
Love this, more of these please! Long time viewer, first time commenter.
amazing video. it came the right time for me. to have a photographer explain how a picture was taken by another photographer is most helpful. especially when it comes to studio lighting. i m going to try and recreat this photographe. and i m hoping that you ll make some more videos like that. thank you very much.
Wow, so awesome! Thank you for the tutorial and the inspiration
Really Great... I am so pleased that your thought process was so familiar to mine in reverse engineer photos.... going to have to look up "Guess the Lighting". Thanks!
Your enthusiasm is infectious 👍👍
I just wanted to thank you for creating such an informative and inspiring video on portrait photography. Your demonstration on how to recreate the iconic Michelle Pfeiffer portrait by Terry O'Neill was truly impressive, and your insights on light and shadow usage were incredibly helpful for me as a hobbyist landscape photographer who is also interested in portrait photography.
Your practical approach to teaching and sharing your knowledge is truly admirable, and I appreciate the effort you put into creating such high-quality content. Your video has not only helped me in improving my lighting techniques, but it has also served as a great source of inspiration for my future photography endeavors.
Once again, thank you for sharing your expertise, and I look forward to learning more from you.
You know what, you've not just successfully recreated a classic portrait. In fact (even if modern digital technology helped a bit), you made your already stunningly beautiful model look even better than the great celebrity in the original shot. The thing needed to pull that off is called skill, Sean, which you abundantly have.
I want to see more, I love the concept
Excellent job your an ACE Photographer. Im going to replicate this with my girlfriend the weekend, I’m a complete beginner when it comes to Portraits, thanks for the advice and great tutorial.
Amazing as always! We learn about posing, composing, lighting, and editing. It’s an outstanding series and you are a great teacher. Thanks!
Loved the video! Keep them coming! Thank You!
Excellent video Sean - very inspiring- thank you and would love to see more like this.
super video Sean, thanks for posting
Great breakdown of the lighting. Love your straightforward explanation of your process for lighting and editing.
Fantastic tutorial, learned alot. Please keep doing these!
This was super fun to watch and a great photo challenge. Here's a tip when using a big softbox as a backlight to make sure you're not overpowering your subject: take a test shot and then sample the background color in your editing software. What you are aiming for is for each channel (red, green, blue) to register 255. Dial your lighting in until you are just under that, say 245, and then up the power just a bit. Since highlight detection flashes red for anything at 255 or above but doesn't differentiate just how far above that you are (it just keeps flashing), this is a good way to make sure you dont' blow out the edges of your subject. I often do this with product photography because my clients usually want a pure white background.
Superb tutorial Sean - thank you.
this was really great Sean !! thank you.!! love another "seeing the light" session if possible !
I think this shot was taken with a medium format camera. That's where the perspective distortion from the lens comes from, it's close enough but distorted.
And the square format can also be like that from the beginning.
Thanks for the video!
Thanks, Sean. I really like the way you explain the lighting.
Thanks! I really enjoy your message and your content!
A really helpful video Sean. I think you can learn so much by analysing great portraits such as this one you have chosen by O'Neill. I also love how you have applied various PhotoShop techniques to get as close as possible to this style. Great work.
Awesome recreation!!! I love your thoughts and attention to the size of your model’s pupils at 18:48. Love you videos, Sean!
Keep it up this helped me so much with seeing the light in portraits
Thanks Sean, I really enjoyed and got a lot out of this video just like the last Ernest Hemingway recreation. If you are looking for ideas for future portraits to emulate then a couple come immediately to mind. The first is the stunning face on portrait of Samuel Beckett by Jane Bown (one of my favourite portraits by one of my favourite photographers) and the other is the B&W portrait of Nick Cave by Anton Corbijn which has the harsh shadow of Mr Cave on a Santa Monica house clapperboard wall next to him.
Great analyses of the light settings, Sean!!! I learned so much from these details, thanks a lot. Cheers, Dirk
Now that you pointed out the pupils I really do like the results you got better.
Thank you so much as always, Sean. Excellent result here.
Excellent excellent walk through! Really makes me want to try it myself.
I really loved this video. It makes me want to try more portraiture 👍
Love the mention of the positioning of lighting
Great job Sean!
Super cool!
I absolutely loved it! I’m going to try and recreate it. Thank you so much for awesome video
We have to point out that the size of the studio, colors of the walls and ceiling (black, white, grey) play a major role in the lighting setup.
In your tiny white garage studio you need consistent black negative fill to control the light. This is probably not needed at all in a very big or and black walls studio with a high ceiling.
What remain the same for all kinds of studios is the floor that can work as a clamshell reflector when it's white with a light aimed on it or not with a black floor liner.
This is awesome. You nailed it. Please keep these coming!
Wonderful tutorial. Yes, please continue with this series.
Nicely done, this set up is one of my go to lighting for my portraits for clients in Los Angeles. You can also use a soft box in place of the silver card at 1 1/2 less power than your main light. I’m sure this video will be very informative to photographers who don’t normally do this so they can ad this to there bag of setups!
Great video Sean thanks so much for walking us through the process.
Really like how you explain things.
I think the background is lit by an umbrella positioned behind her so the light spread well but not flat as pointing a octabox like you did.
Excellent! Hey, hold option while resizing that reference pic and you won't have to go corner by corner. Center the reference, cmd-T, then hold option while you drag ONE corner and it will resize from the center out. Fast!
Grate one! Looking foreword for the next one!
I guess the modelling light contracted her pupils.. Great video!! 👏👏👍
Nice idea and work! Thanks for the tipps! 🙏
Your videos are just something special, really loved this one, and what a stunning model you shot, amazing end picture! The fact that you show the whole process from taking the shot and to the editing part, is very interesting!
Fully appreciate the work and tips you have shared with us Sean.
Great video, thank you
Excellent work! Thank you for sharing. It's a difficult skill to learn reading the lights set up. But you really nailed it 👌 I would never guess the black flags on the sides.
Absolutely fantastic video, Sean! Thanks so much for sharing all the knowledge!
Awesome work Sean. That was an excellent recreation of that portrait, well executed and presented.
Thank you so much Sean for the awesome video and your tips for shooting! God bless you!
Great job! I learned a couple of things, thank you.
Beautiful job!!!
Loved it! Thank you!
This video was fantastic! PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE do this again! Doing Platon image next would be very interested!!!
Outstand explanation… very clear!
Always learn something new. Thanks 🙏🏼
Wonderful, good job, well explained.
This tutorial was fantastic. Thank you for the effort, insights, and end to end workflows. Please keep it up - I’ve learned more from this video on lighting/shooting/editing with a goal in mind than most others I’ve seen on TH-cam.