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Overhead Bounce + Fill

Lesson 46 from: Lighting 101

SLR Lounge, Pye Jirsa

Overhead Bounce + Fill

Lesson 46 from: Lighting 101

SLR Lounge, Pye Jirsa

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46. Overhead Bounce + Fill

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Lessons

Class Trailer
1

Chapter 1 Introduction

01:26
2

Why Just One On-Camera Flash

04:22
3

5 Reasons to Use Flash

10:37
4

Common Flash Myths

06:51
5

What Makes Flash Challenging?

04:56
6

Chapter 2 Introduction

01:36
7

Flash-Strobe vs. Ambient-Constant Light

08:19
8

Flash vs. Ambient Light Exposure

03:07
9

Flash vs. Ambient Demo

06:42
10

Flash and Ambient Balancing for Natural Effect

07:11
11

Flash and Ambient Balancing for Dramatic Effect

04:19
12

Flash and Ambient Balancing for Creative Effect

07:10
13

Understanding Flash Duration

08:37
14

Chapter 3 Introduction

01:34
15

5 Common Key Light Patterns

08:38
16

5 Common Key Light Patterns w/ Diffusion & Fill

07:42
17

5 Common Secondary Light Patterns

08:28
18

3 Primary Subject Patterns

05:27
19

Light Qualities

09:56
20

The Inverse Square Law

07:50
21

Inverse Square Law in Practice

08:21
22

Corrective White Balance

10:02
23

Creative White Balance

05:47
24

Chapter 4 Introduction

01:58
25

On Board vs. Hot Shoe Flash

05:57
26

Full Feature vs. Manual Flashes

08:59
27

TTL vs. Manual Control

08:12
28

TTL vs. Manual Recycle Times

04:43
29

Flash Power & Zoom

09:18
30

HHS vs. ND Filters

12:29
31

FCS vs. RCS

07:11
32

Chapter 5 Introduction

01:38
33

4 Tips When You Must Use Direct Flash

06:00
34

Bare Bulbing Done Right

11:42
35

Grid Snoot + Direct Flash

06:43
36

Mini Beauty + Direct Flash

06:08
37

Ring + Direct Flash

07:52
38

Understanding Modifiers

09:24
39

Direct Flash + Shutter Flash

09:07
40

Chapter 6 Introduction

01:55
41

Ambient vs. Direct Flash vs. Bounce Flash

14:27
42

Silver Bounce

14:27
43

More Light Silver

11:02
44

Soft White Bounce

15:41
45

Overhead Bounce

11:39
46

Overhead Bounce + Fill

09:42
47

Event Bounce

12:42
48

Chapter 7 Introduction

01:38
49

Natural vs. Dramatic Light

17:43
50

Filling and Refining Existing Light

08:44
51

Coloring Light for Corrective Effect

13:33
52

Coloring Light for Creative Effect

10:27
53

Chapter 8 Introduction

00:43
54

Case Study 1 - Dramatic Sunset

09:45
55

Case Study 2 - Desert Sunset

10:04
56

Case Study 3 - Sinister Headshot

09:40
57

Case Study 4 - Family Portrait

08:21
58

Case Study 5 - Athlete Portraits

11:19
59

Case Study 6 - Working Angles

07:22
60

Case Study 7 - Drag + Composite

08:09
61

Case Study 8 - Less is More

07:16
62

The Good Karma Jar

01:41
63

Favorite Feature Flashes

05:52
64

Favorite Manual Flashes

21:35
65

Favorite On Camera Flash Modifiers

21:21

Lesson Info

Overhead Bounce + Fill

Overhead bounced, plus phil now, in the last tutorial we used overhead bounced to create a very dramatic and kind of cool look with our fitness images, but overhead bounce come used in some way giveaways for beauty, for fashion, for portrait, for puppies, yes, but what we're going to need to do is we're gonna need to modify the light just a little bit. We're going to overhead balance plus fill in this set of tutorials. We're going to be using up to four reflectors, so and I'll talk to all the different kind of set ups in just a second let's talk about the gear that we're gonna be using. We can use ifyou'd like four westcott reflectors, but the thing is that you're going to need stands toe hold those reflectors so you could buy the stands separate or what I probably recommend is getting too stands of the photo dio stands that come with reflectors and then just getting to westcott so that we have two oval ones and you have two circular ones that you could use on top of bottom and so fort...

h. We're going to create a sandwich setup and that's gonna cover the techniques on the left side with our little puppy shot, I thought I'd be. Even more adventurous with that and rather than using any type of reflector than you'd buy we just did it d I y style because I want to show you guys that light modification is super easy to do guys if you don't want to buy something that's fine well you're gonna need to buy at least foam or some like that but for these shots all we did was just used foam insulation basically to create the same kind of box and it was extremely expensive things like ten bucks to get all the film installations we just cut it up and it works perfectly so remember that light modification while you can buy all these different like tools and things and it makes it simple because it saves me time have to make it you khun d I y it in so many situations and save money by making your own modifiers all right so let's go over the primary tips in this little section number one does remember the same basics if you decide to use white then you're going to have a more diffused light but it's going to come at the cost of a bit of intensity and it's gonna have less contrast if you decide to use silver then you're gonna have more light, more intensity and also a higher contrast light same stuff same thing I just want to reiterate ten number two is to watch where the light's falling I'd always recommend starting with one light, adding a second fill and then adding additional ones as you need, but always start with one first and see what it looks like and then adjust from there and then watch what you're phil's and watching these other things and watch basically the highlights and how they're landing. This goes into the refinement of your lighting, okay? And when you practice these techniques, I want you to take a shot and then study it. Look, if the highlights are too strong along the foreheads or look at it, the phil is too strong coming up from the chin, look at all these things and make small adjustments here and there just to kind of tweak and modify before going forward, okay? So let's, go ahead and talk through each of these set ups over here on the left, we have our clamshell lighting setup, so basically, this is a paramount light setup we have. Well, this shot actually is coming from the left is a split led light, and we're just trying to show you really all we're showing you here is just that if you do split lighting without a modifier, it looks absolutely terrible, I don't know, I don't want to be trying to show you look in the bottom one. Okay with the bottom one we have paramount line and we have that led light placed above head. We have it going through diffusion and we have a fil below. So the payment light with phil and what does that become? Clamshell we get beautiful, soft, natural and that's all I want to show you is just how soft that gets and we've talked about that before, so I'm going to go a little quickly through that one but that's one of the overhead phil bounce phil techniques while we did it here within led you could do the exact same thing with flash and the way this is gonna work is how we're going to do it in the second shop. Now the top image right here this was taken of brandon during that same portrait session where we did all the fitness and all the other stuff too. So it was on a twenty four seventy at seventy millimeter zoom this is the mark too. By the way, we're sending mark to this is that one eighth of a second two point eight and sixteen hundred this is what that shot would look like if we just used the natural you mean like pretty terrible quite crap tastic not good. The bottom shot, though, is that one, two hundred second f to a d s o two hundred and what we've done is we've placed four reflector so we have two reflectors on stands on the left and right we have a reflector overhead and a reflector underneath what is this doing? Well with the flash and for this type of a shot, you don't need to use a grid because what you want is any time you're placing the flash close to, like the modification that you're gonna be using well you want the flash to actually open up and to fill that entire modifier so I'm not going to use any zoom even at all I want to actually widen this out well, I'm going to the zoo I'm just not gonna zoom it in I'm gonna zoom into twenty four millimeters so that way when it hits that top modifier it spreads out it opens up ok otherwise it's only gonna hit the modifier in a small place and is going to come back it's going to be smaller light which we know a small lie it's gonna be a harder light so we balance into that top reflector then it comes down bounces into the bottom reflector and all the meanwhile we have the left and the right sandwiching reflected, which captures light from the left and right and throws it back in the face with four reflectors all around the plate face I think I almost said place but either way for reflectors all around the face what type of light do we essentially create? We're basically creating a square or a flat light set up but we did it with basically one overhead lights so the lights actually bouncing up overhead are on camera flash and it's coming around and is creating a flat light which goes in and it looks awesome okay, we do this type of setup all the time for hedge odds not on with brandon with other people it works fantastically well chris beautiful catch like that creates a fantastic look and if you watched the peter hurley f stoppers dvd which is a fantastic course on headshots then you'll know that he uses a similar flat light setup he sets it up a little bit differently but it's the same type of quality of light okay, now you like doing headshots? I'd have eric when checking out that course because it's a fantastic course on getting the best poses of the best expressions out of your models so if you want a more speculative light for this type of a set up you silver's I think for brandon we actually ended abusing silver's but if you want a softer look with the light then use whites either way it's not gonna be a huge difference because there's so much light coming in it's just going to be a small difference in speculator ity not so much in wrap the softness for the hardness it's going to be very similar because all the lights are the exact same all the distance of the light or the modifiers to subject is the same it's still large so it's still gonna be a very wrapping light it's just gonna be a little more contrast versus a little bit less contrast fantastic set up super easy to do and basically all we have on the bottom so one hundred second f two eight two hundred this is for silver flat square set up you can run t on this but again I can tell you not to just don't we run one quarter to one eight power on manual okay twenty four millimeters get beautiful exposures every single time all right, so with that technique you could do the exact same thing and create either paramount or you can create a clamshell paramount rimmer paramount is just one light overhead clamshell is paramount plus phil all we do is subtract the left and the right reflectors if we take a left and right with flickers out and bouncing that top we get this exact look but with our own camera flash so let's move on to the puppies now with the puppies I want to do something a little different I don't want to do the same exact lighting techniques I want to show you guys that we could modify with whatever okay? So the top shop direct flash this is on a fifty millimeter lens at one point two l we're shooting an f two eight one one sixteen of a second and is a one hundred and direct flash take a look at the docks look at them they look angry with me they look they look veritably pissed off that I direct flash them unhappy then I go okay so what we're gonna do now we're gonna show you guys that light modification will be simple and incredibly cheap so I took the foam core that you'd get or not the foam core the phone installation board you get at home depot and I just made a little box out of it it's a little home its a phone for if you will okay and I'm using basically one piece on the sides and one piece over and I'm using the are white little paper background are seamless paper that's my bottom part and then under sitting inside of it and I have the dogs just place in front of that and all I'm doing is doing the same thing in the reform is bouncing of the top and then it wraps all around and goes right into the puppies these puppies are actually my partners puppies so I have his wife you've got there helping me to kind of play some in position and play with them and do all sorts things we get these beautiful looking shots they look fantastic same exact techniques, guys, beautiful, light, really bad light, same flash, ten dollars, a modification, and we get to this so what's the point of this again, you guys could go out and buy reflectors by stands by those things, because they make your life simple, but don't feel like you have to. If you want to die, wyatt, you want to make your own fine. The techniques toe light, and to modify our identical regardless of whether you're buying your modifiers or make them on your own. All right, so that's it for overhead bounce, let's. Move on to the next video.

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