Lesson Info
47. Studio fashion set up 4
Lessons
Meet your Master
01:26 2Learn from the journey
15:24 3Using inspirations
08:43 4Photography is stopping time
09:27 5Albert's library of ideas
08:30 6Tips on preparing for a portrait shoot
12:10 7Setting up the studio
04:56 8Understanding studio collaboration
07:35The importance of casting and hair & make-up
08:59 10Foreground studio set up
08:46 11Studio session with a model - set up 1
11:23 12Studio session with a model - set up 2
05:55 13Studio session with a model - set up 3
08:01 14Picking the best shot
03:36 15Working with photoshop
13:14 16Creating a portrait of Alfred Hitchcock
04:18 17The gigantic question... Colour or black and white?
07:55 18One day with Kate Moss
05:06 19Learn to have your ideas ready
06:14 20Using Polariods
06:29 21Creating beautiful photographs of hands
04:45 22Controlling natural light
05:38 23Shooting a monkey with a gun
06:27 24Choosing your format
07:13 25Composition and lens
04:47 26Shooting landscapes. The Isle of Skye
15:18 27Planning and ideas for a landscape shoot
06:32 28Creating still life images
13:48 29Photographing the Lost Diary
10:53 30Shooting album covers
03:09 31The Strip Search Project
10:28 32Shooting Las Vegas landscapes
08:24 33Photographing Breaunna
07:21 34Balancing daylight, God bless America
03:45 35Creating the Maroc Project
10:21 36Creating the Maroc shoot
08:11 37Photographing sand dunes
04:09 38Photographing Moroccan children
10:42 39Advice on making portraits
10:12 40How to be alert to finding photographs
07:35 41Making a portrait of Mike Tyson
02:39 42Creating intense colour in a photograph
03:04 43Portraits of rap stars and a Golden Boy
08:40 44Photographing Jack Nicholson
04:20 45Creating a portrait of David Cronenberg
02:14 46How to light only using two $10 bulbs
07:29 47Studio fashion set up 4
10:47 48Studio session with a model. The geography of a face
13:05 49Look inside the picture
02:56 50Creating memorability in an image
02:54 51Combining nudes and landscapes
04:52 52A perfect print
07:50 53The business side of things
06:50 54Conclusion and farewell
03:55Lesson Info
Studio fashion set up 4
(playful instrumental) So here, we have a set that's very, very simple; it's kind of a fashion 101 set against white, with a fairly high-contrast light, very simple light, just above the line of the lens, on access to the lens, and I'm gonna put Kyler back in there, so essentially, I'm thinking here, it's not a portrait, it's almost like a fashion portrait, so it's a very simple light, very simple set up, but if you control it very carefully, it can be very effective, and as you see, we're still using the black box, which is, under these conditions against white, is really, very effective. Hi, so come on in, Kyler, and it's very simple, just jump up in the box there, remember you're on two apple boxes, and straight to me; that's fine, so I'm just lining up the camera directly in line with him, so here, you have the camera, the subject, and basically the light are in a straight line, just a little bit, very small amount there, and just come down just a little bit, so the first thing y...
ou gotta look at here, is just how deep the shadows are in the eyes, how deep the shadow is here. Maybe go in a little bit closer, so, you have a clamp there? Yeah. We can just use it as a counter-weight here, but maybe you can just even go in there, that's it; the legs, a little bit apart, right, and then even try the hands, and just the thumbs in the pockets there, and very, very simple; the head up, just a tiny bit, but I think not too high, because you should really stay with the camera, so you can almost a little bit, lean forward a bit to the camera; now, I think that we need a flag in there. Just on top, the small flag is good, we might need it on a bigger stand, actually, why don't we use this and bring it in? The big one here, and we can just put it horizontal. Sorry. Go ahead, yeah, go ahead. (clinking) So here, we're just gonna take, we're shooting against white, so essentially here, we have his blonde hair here, very white against the white, so I'm just gonna take a little bit of energy off of the light here, so we don't lose the hair into the white behind, and it can come in quite a bit actually, there, right, go back a little bit here, that's fine, now just slowly raise it there, 'cause it adds the right amount of softness to it; there we go. (footsteps echoing) (shutter snapping) Now try the arms, just really quite strongly folded, there; I think, when you're doing something like this, I think it's important to really look at the shot, remember it's a human being in here, begin to look at the clothing, 'cause I introduced it as a fashion shot, then you'd really want to introduce that, so you should look at small details like the sleeve, here, the shot's a little bit boring through here, that's why I had him fold the arms there, (shutter snapping) and then, probably, the shot's even a little bit stronger if we go in a little bit closer, so I'll do that with the camera; you can always crop later, but sometimes it's very nice to do it in-camera. (metal scraping) So here, Kylar, you can move, you can hold onto the collar, you can a little bit, hold onto the pendant; there are different things that you can do here, you can begin to move around here, a little bit, and see what you want to do here; you can invent something, there, when you find something, always give me a couple of what you find, just to enable me, Okay. Just in case I miss the eyes or something; (shutter snapping and beeping) it's perfect what you're doing, it's perfect, exactly, just a little bit that way, that's it, the kind of the lean was good; just bend, that's it; (shutter snapping) so what you're looking for here, are very subtle variations; body language, 'cause there's nothing else in the shot to look at, he's not inside a car, he's not inside a diner, he's not on the beach (shutter snapping) you keep an eye on what's going on with the lighting, if you remember, I put that flag in there; (shutter snapping and beeping) of course, here it helps, I'm working with a really good model here, so of course it helps tremendously; it's one of the big advantages in New York City, there's a lot of good models here; (shutter snapping) try just for one shot, both hands in front of the face; again, okay, and then hands down; you can try a smile when you feel it, good; well done. (shutter snapping) Just stay there for a while, just there; open the elbows a tiny bit; just raise the flag at the back there, just a little bit, would you? Yeah. (shutter snaps) Good, alright; that's fine, thank you, so if we start to go through this, if we go to the very, very beginning where we started, it's always interesting to see a progression, so if I'm selecting, let's say I'm doing a test for myself, if I look at it here, I'd say well, that here, the black and whiteness is a little bit boring, so in the next frame we went to color, so the color is de-saturated color, so it's not full color; you might even look at this as a de-saturated color shot, and then later, you might put, there's a little piece of coral here, you might put the light back into, the energy, the redness, back into the coral there, but as a starting point, the black box is doing the work. It's creating the shadows on the outside, pencil edging the outsides of the shot here; if you see here, the shadow on either side here, the flag on the top is reducing the light on the hair, so you have a very good silhouette here against white, so this is working fine, so this for me, as I said to you, this is a little bit boring here, so if we start to go through it, I then covered this area here; the sleeves are pushed up, so therefore, you have the skin here, obviously, and then the skin here, which worked very well; we then jumped in a little bit, so I'm still dealing with the fashion of the t-shirt here, and I'm checking the lighting here. So if we go through a few of these, just go through a few, now I actually go back one, now I actually let Kyler go, and he delivers to me what he would do very well, is he'll give me a mood, and an attitude, and you see if he drops his head here, the flagging is still holding onto the hair here, which is good; when he drops his head, the shot's more dramatic, which is good, and it's a matter of letting him go, but keeping an eye on all the elements here, you know, how much skin here, there is, how much of this arm is showing, so you have to keep an eye on everything, not only the face, and then you give him direction to make sure that Kyler knows that you're still interested. You can let him go, but you've got to somehow, hold on to some control here, so if we go through, and you can see with a strong light like this, that he's actually changing the lighting completely as he goes through, by raising the head, or dropping the head; he's changing the lighting completely, and the mood on his face when he does that; the light here is changing all the time, but the reason that that's so effective, the change of light, is because the setting of the key light was very, very good, and that accommodates all of that; you see, go back one, you see here, you can see how his head has gone back, and he's actually gone into the top flagging here, but it still works quite well, and it still has a mood. I mean, even in this shot here, you see a little bit of Kyler's tattoo here, which is very nice, so it's a small detail, but it looks good, and even though the hands are down here, there's something nice about the crop and the energy in the shot, so still, very, very, very, very simple, the whole shot; just keep going, this was just for fun, really, the swing out of the frame is quite good, smile is good; it's the simplicity of this, but the flexibility of it that you could actually use this shooting on several occasions,. Now, if you put a girl in this lighting, you might want to put some softening, maybe what's called a silk, between the light and the subject, just to soften the light a little bit, 'cause it's a strong light, and in this kind of very strong light, men tend to look very good in a strong light like that, you know? But I think that once again, this shot's helped a lot by what Kyler did. (playful instrumental)
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"Unless you're Mozart"...this course is an invaluable asset. I'm a pro, humanitarian/documentary photographer, & wilderness...and I've learned much from the 40+ sessions here. This is truly a Master Class...next best thing to being with Albert. And although I could watch studio sessions forever, this course offered a very balanced curriculum of technical information, artistic encouragement and guidance, and a open, generous window into the thinking of a gifted artist and photographer, sifted from decades of first class experience. Kudos to all involved. Excellent!
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