I loved the problem-solving aspect of this video Mark. Most demos are done with all the right equipment available, but it’s very helpful to see you making the most of what you had. Love your work Mark - take care in your travels 😀
Awesome video, you have proved to be a nice photographer by making the maximum use of the optimum resources and also its very glad to see an alternative chosen by you and explained so easily.
I agree with Stephen Elder's comment below. This is a great example of both the fundamentals of lighting as well as using what you have available. Thanks for the instruction.
Welcome home. Will you be doing any DIY set designs? I know you did the corner wall with a window. I like to see sets made from dense sheet foam as they carry at big box hardware stores? Kind of like what Thearter or church Plays do or even Movie set do with foam.
Thanks. I think everyone's travels have been adversely affected. I did get stuck for most of the year... www.markonabike.com/2020/07/quarantined-in-argentina/
It was nice to see a pro using what most of us have to use and still showing how to get great shots and not having a studio full of the expensive gear then showing us their shots. Keep the episodes coming as they are very informative.
Great job sir, please I will like to the know the speed u are using with each of the aparture. Not all of us have the light mitre . Secondly may I know if u reduce or increase ur light beam?
Excellant, as always. Mark, can you do a video on pupil size? What do you think is more appealing, large pupils or smaller? Women used to put belladonna in their eyes to make their pupils larger, which was considered beautiful at the time. In photography we can control the ambiant and modeling light to change the pupil size, but I have never heard anyone talk about this.
It was just a rolling wall the Blok Studio had available. I just rolled it behind Sydney since I didn't have any seamless paper. The windows in the wall were a bit distracting, so I just used the rolling wall. The team at Blok Studio in Phoenix, AZ built the wall. Link to the studio is in the description. They may have more info on how it was built.
Welcome back to North America Mark, although I’m guessing you’d prefer to be on the road on your KTM. Nice images too. I think the issues with the Profoto BD have a lot to do with their recessed flash tube design. The deflector disk is too far away to prevent direct flash spill from the tube, the Profoto ProHead Plus strobe head with the exposed flash tube likely provides better light from their DB. Another option would be to have a translucent deflector like the original BD design, Mola and the Speedotron BD are of this concept.
Classic clamshell needs much larger modifiers both top and bottom almost facing up at each other with a tilt to subject of only a couple of degrees. The beauty of the light comes from the extremely 'feathered' light. This set up is fine but a bit harsh. IMHO
Normally, yes. If you have a specific aperture setting you want to use. Since I was ok from f/8 to f/11 I didn't mind just changing my camera to match my flash power. Either way works depending on your needs.
Great video, but to me the lower light was a bit on the bright side. I think if it were me I would have set it to f8 or maybe a little bit stronger. Glad to see you were able to may it back to the states as well.
When using that huge softbox underneath, and especially contrasted with the relatively small size of the key light, you went from a reduced shadow under the chin, to washing her chin and face out. You can't even see the definition of her chin. Either a strip box underneath, or gridded if using lights. IMHO
The pictures are beautiful, but the plywood backdrop looks terrible with the deep field. I feel like it might be cool at f/1.8-4 but being so detailed it just looks cheap.
I disagree with you, it's totally possible use a wider aperture, and not have the ambient light get in your "way", the shutter speed is what will affect the most in that, I love to shoot at 5.6 or around that area in studio, so you can blur a little of the background, but not exaggerate on that.
