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Lesson Info
15. Lighting Setup: PavoTube Portraits
Lessons
Class Overview
04:47 2Types of Constant Light
08:29 3Types of LED Light
09:12 4Controlling Light Output and Color Temperature
11:14 5Constant Light vs. Flash
08:20 6Light Output Compared
15:27 7Freezing Motion with Constant Light
06:56 8Working With Color
11:33The Fresnel Lens
07:39 10Light Modifiers
34:56 11Lighting Setup: Clamshell Light
05:11 12Lighting Setup: The Key and the Kickers
08:53 13Lighting Setup: Creative Lens Flare
04:14 14Lighting Setup: Cinematic Portraits
05:03 15Lighting Setup: PavoTube Portraits
05:25 16Lighting Setup: Translum Silhouettes
04:52 17Special Effects for Video
03:08 18Class Wrap Up
03:09Lesson Info
Lighting Setup: PavoTube Portraits
Paavo tubes are awesome. They're RGB W W lights, These tubes you can do all kinds of things with in fact if you look over here I have set up a triangle of light and if we look at that from a different angle you'll see that it surrounds Teresa and if we get really close you can see it does some amazing things to her eyes. So we have some really speculate highlights. We have these catch lights that look like a triangle. So it's not a traditional round highlight or square highlight that you would get from. A soft box is totally different because of where the lights are. You have no shadows really anywhere. It's just surrounding her with light. It's a peter Hurley ish kind of lighting setup. So let's zoom back out again so you can sort of see what's going on there and you can see that we have again this surround of light. I'm gonna sit back over here and then what I'm going to do is we're gonna play with this in a few different ways. So what we're gonna do is we're gonna play with this by ...
changing our aperture values. Were also going to play with this by changing um maybe turning on and off some different lights. So the first thing we need to do is turn on the camera, get that tethered. So I've got light room over here let's see if it will detect my camera so it is on, come on, light room so there it is. Okay so now let's do this, I'm going to go here and we're just going to take a photo. I'm using the in camera metering. So T T L metering that tells me I need to be at 5.6 at 2/100 of a second. S 40. And so that's going to pop in and look at this photo when we zoom in. We have these really amazing catch lights in Theresa's eyes. I love that. And notice on this, I we have three catch lights on this one. We have one. It just sort of mixes up, It looks like a sci fi kind of a shot. So I want to play with that just a little bit. We're gonna do a few shots here, Teresa So really, really close. I'm gonna get him really close. So I am zoomed in at 105 mm. Really close. I want you to tilt your head down just a little bit. There you go, like that. Beautiful. These are really extremely tight. But I love how this looks. So let's just take a look at these shots. So we've got these really cool shots here. We can change how that looks on Theresa by having Theresa just move forward and back. So let's have you take about a step back. Just go back. There you go. What that's gonna do is it's going to accentuate those highlights on her eyes. It looks almost like she's crying. It's crazy. Crazy. Cry eyes. So we're going to do that. Now look at how much more we get by her. Just going back a step, we get much more of those. The farther back she goes, the smaller those are going to be. So let's have you take another two steps back, Keep going back. There you go like that. I'm gonna just my metering so I'm going to go up to 4.5 and take this shot And now we're gonna look at this next shot that's coming up here and now look at how these are starting to shrink. So by having her go forward and farther back, those are getting larger or smaller so we can change how that looks. But we're having consistent look around her but also look how the background changes as she's going backwards because we're going to have to open up the aperture to compensate for her moving backwards, which adds more light on the background. And so the distance is uh an important thing in every lighting setup. All right, Theresa come back a couple of steps now, what we're going to do. So I'm gonna turn off the lot the lower light here. So that's turned off. I'm gonna have you come a little bit more closely. Yes, like that and I'm going to Stop down to 5.6, take another shot and now watch what happens now we have just a little bit more light underneath. Not a lot, but you can see that that has changed just a bit because that light that was illuminating her from below went away. You can also change this look by just changing how much light is coming out. So what I'll do is I'll take this guy here and I'm going to change how bright it is. I'm going to take it down to About 50%, something like that. All right, so our light on one side is much lower than the other side and I'll take another shot here. Beautiful. And now look what we have. We have a shot where we have some contrast, check that out. So we have different looks. So let me just put these up next to each other. We have three different looks here that we're able to see based on the how close Teresa is if the lights are turned on or not and the balance of those lights, it's a really, really fun lighting setup and it's something that you can do to change the look really, really quickly. This is great if you're doing head shots or actor headshots or something and you need to have people come in and knock it out the first time every time with no issues. You can do it with this light and most people love how they look with this light
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user-182390
Great course very informative and a pleasure to watch love the way you teach so easy to understand and follow through. learned a lot about continuous lighting ty
Alessandro Zugno
This is a very useful class for who want to start shooting video or photo with constant light. Creative Live should make more class on videography.
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