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Lesson Info
11. Lighting Setup: Clamshell Light
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: Clamshell Light
let's begin our lighting setups with clamshell light. It's a very simple lighting setup. You can use one or two lights and you just put one on top of the other and it goes in a clamshell format. Sometimes I get confused and think butterfly light because in my mind there sideways but this is not butterfly. Like if I accidentally say butterfly light, I mean clamshell light, this is clamshell light, you can see clamshell light because this top light right here, we're using a big soft box here. Parabolic, it's a 1 20 this reflector, it looks like a clamshell. So we're gonna shoot through this and we will get really beautiful light. So the first thing I need to do is just to note we are going to turn off the front lights that are illuminating me and you'll see me go into darkness. And so Teresa you'll notice is in complete darkness. We still have this little light over here with a grid on it, we're gonna do this for all of our lighting setups. This light that's shining on me does not shine ...
on Theresa, it's not gonna affect her exposure at all. And so we just want to do that so you can see me walk around. Okay, so when I go over here I'm metering this light So I'm going to meet her right to the camera, I'm metering my camera set to s. 0. 640 And my shutter speeds at 200. And so right now I'm seeing that I need an aperture value of F 10 And so I'm going to do that, I'm gonna set my aperture to F 10 and I need to plug this in so you can see it on my computer. And so okay so we're at 10 right now. Teresa look right at me is gorgeous. We're gonna take a photo and you can see when this shot comes up here. It is. It's just coming up now bam. We have really nice soft light under Theresa's chin. You can see that her eyes, we have this nice reflection of the main light. We're just getting a subtle bounce of light underneath. But this clamshell light, you see what it does to her cheekbones. We have this really beautiful light sculpting her cheeks, it looks really wonderful in this shot because we have such a large light modifier notice we have lots of light on the background. What would happen if we change that light modifier? Well that's the wonderful thing with clamshell light. You can so what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna turn this light off, I'm gonna lower this light stand so that I can take off this really large wraparound soft light. So forgiving you really can't go wrong with a big soft box like this because it just wraps around your subject. So what we're gonna do instead we're still going to use a soft box but I'll show this over here, we have a grid on that so you can see that grid a little bit. Yeah there we go. So it's gonna restrict the light. So it's only gonna go straight at Teresa. So I'm gonna throw that on my light so I'll move that back over here. I'll throw that on. It's always fun doing this in the dark. So on video it looks very bright. But here where I am uh it's sort of in the dark so I can't really see. That's okay. Okay, I'm gonna turn this on, we're gonna raise this up a little bit. Not very much, I'm gonna go much much closer to Theresa with this light. And the reason for that is I want to try to get as close to her as possible so that the light falls off. That little rule of the inverse square law that we learned earlier, this is going to come into effect. And so this is going to let the light fall off behind her. We also have this light on a grid, it's going to restrict the light. So now let me meet her this And it meters at seven. I'm gonna increase my power. So I had turned this down to 30% of full power to try to match that. Just by guessing. Now we're F nine. F nine is pretty good. We get nice depth of field with F nine. So I'm gonna adjust my aperture to F nine. There we go. And now I'm loving this shot. Take that photo and now what we have is a much darker background and a little bit more pronounced shadows on Theresa. So we can go and look at these two pictures side by side. So the one on the left is the one with the large soft box. The one on the right is the one with the small soft box with the grid. Notice a couple of different things we look at this one. This is a large soft box, really nice soft light under her chin. The next one notice the light has become harder under her chin. That's because our light is smaller and so a smaller light gives us harder light. But I really love how that looks. Okay. So what we're going to do is we're gonna keep going along on our journey. I'm gonna light up really fast. And what we're going to do is we're going to add some more lights. We're gonna start adding kickers and experimenting and playing with more light setup. So stay tuned. More of that's coming to you right now.
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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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