Dramatic Portraits - Learn to Master Your Softbox with Jeff Rojas 

Albert Lugosi thank you! :)

Ryan Adams thanks so much! :)

Cesar Chavez thanks so much! :)

Effie Skitsa thank you! :)

Mark Thomas thanks so much Mark! :)

Julie Holcomb Thanks Julie! ❤️

msc1963 great question! I shoot what my client is look for. If my client is looking for something that looks like this, why would I over complicate things?

AK Studio Films thank you. :)

opwave79 thanks so much! :)

sun simple thank you! :)

exactly correct!

Correct.

Sticky, not correct at all because you are not taking into effect light fall off and incorrectly thinking of what to do with the flash (or did not listen, he said open up to wide aperture not stop it down). Opening up to a very wide aperture (letting in way more light) means you don't need as much flash power, that makes you REDUCE the output of your flash NOT increase / double it. And if the flash source is close to the subject and not very strong and then reduced even more, the light falloff will mean almost none gets to the background. In addition the 45 degree angle down means even less light hits the background and even less bounces back due to the angle. Using this technique can reduce the light hitting the background so much you can easily turn a grey background black.

I imagine because a 7" umbrella is going to be much more difficult to setup/manoeuvre in small space and controlling the spill is also harder as he was trying to keep the background darker.

StakyAll Thanks is much! I just had some really good mentors and people who pushed me. :)

Song Kevin great question! No they do not. :D

Sasha Fearless thank you. :)

start subtly rotating the light source which will shift the light to dark transition

K. Adam Christensen Instead of aiming the center of your light directly at your subject, use the "edge" of your light and allow the "center" to spill in a different direction.

Hung Pham thanks so much. If I’m using strobe lighting, it’s set to flash.

dont matter if you shoot RAW

Angel Prado thank you! ❤️

dragonfist25 thank you!

Dex Pyran thank you for watching! :)

Dan Garcia When working with strobes, changing the aperture effects the light produced by the flash only.

i mean retouched

MT Nguyen 3x4ft. :)

Gabre Cameron because the light doesn’t reach the mirror in this situation. :)

They all have different styles of teaching. I personally think it's interesting to see each one.

Casey and do my photos look like Marks? Nope.

Oh snap son. He replied. I also havent seen a Mark Wallace video in awhile.

The light meter has its place, but the lighting setup was not complicated. If you are just using one light, you might as well use the light meter built into your camera. Most photographers use the light meter when they are using more than one light, or doing spot metering for landscapes.

Ally5853 what's wrong with using a light meter?

Ll G Haha. What?? The in-camera light meter does not measure light from strobes.

He probably did use one but it wasn't shown in the video

Ally5853 lol I will soon... I figured baby steps are a must on RU-vid. Lol

Actually just do research on products that let you lower the power or just use a flash off camera in a modifier. RU-vidrs just want to bitch about nothing.

RayValdezPhotography lol love this! 😂

1/200 is probably the flash aync speed which would allow him to shoot at that shutter speed.