Feathered Light: OnSet ep.  

Fantastic demonstration Daniel Norton, so great to be able to see how each light movement affects the image with the Magnum Reflector and the Soft Box! Thanks ADORAMA for showcasing someone like Daniel Norton on your great Channel featuring all the great gear you guys sell!

Nice examples of feathering light. I also enjoyed watching Sharina change into many poses, all of them elegant. Nice results.

Thank you for demonstrating feathering. I just love all your videos!

You have become perhaps my favorite portrait photographer to follow. Your teaching is thorough and easy to comprehend and you have a very cool personality.

Another good demo. Thanks. Nice to see Sharina again too.

Thanks Daniel and Sharinna.

Nice, Daniel and Sharinna. Nice results, as always!

Great Job you two!! thank you!

Another solid lesson from Daniel, I must admit that it's instinctive to shine the light on the subject and then think you need a bigger softbox. I mean when you see how simple it is but unless you know you don't know:) Kind of reminds me of bagging potatoes in my parents shop I used to put em on the scale until it made over the weight and then take a small one off. Till one day I was struggling not enough small potatoes and my dad said why not take a big one off and put a small one on. I mean it's obvious right but until then i'd never considered it. Thanks Dad , I mean Daniel a good lesson to learn, keep an open mind.

I didn't even recognize that is the same model as in one of your other videos :) she said something and I was like whoa! Gray video guys. She looks fabulous too!!! Everything about her was perfect!

Great video 👍 a real Master having fun,

Such an excellent demonstration. Thanks

Great tutorial!

Best tip :) Im your fan. That I was looking for . Thank you very much.

Amazing, I liked more the feather with the softbox

Once again great video.

Goood work Daniel. Thanks too

Thank you for another informative great video , i learn so much fro your video's Daniel thank you ... :-)

Great, informative video as usual. Do wonder what was happening in the room off set at 8.25 though lol!

Hi Daniel. I'm surprised that for the last shot the light is so even across her face. I would have expected more of a shadow on her left side. Would the fact that you don't have the softbox too close to her account for this? I tend to have my soft box much closer. Thanks Sean

Great tutorial as usual! I've been interested in learning more about feathering, so this helps. Is it possible to use feathering with a clamshell lighting setup?

fathered looks so much better

Curious - Why are you using what seems to be a white seamless background behind the model when you could have used the white wall right behind that?

Which Tripod are you using ?

She's fabulous! Sorry Dan you dont float my boat! Apreciate your craft though :^)

...would it be better if she's was wearing a colored dress? Not white dress with white back ground? great video btw

Thanks for not wearing a mask. Couldn't watch your previous videos. Great tutorial as per usual

Why are you hanging seamless when you already have a white wall? That's a derp move. It doesn't look more even when feathered to me, it just looks like she turned her head. In fact, the only reason(s) I can think of to feather a light are to bring out fine details, like stitching and lace, or for coverage of wide subjects like triples or quads. Also, if I'm "feathering" the light to try to make it softer (I wouldn't), but if I were, I'd be using a WHITE fill card, not silver. I want to fill, not create a secondary light source. Silver board is 1 step below using a mirror. As a matter of fact, half of what you try to show is obscured because of the white studio. Studios should be BLACK. That's the only way you know that any light you add is the ONLY light. You don't get stray reflection back from walls, ceilings etc. Then you can visualize using the modeling lights instead of having to take a shot every time you adjust light to know if you're moving in the right direction. With this sort of setup and knowing my equipment I could so a full multi light setup, with ratios and background and be within .2 of a stop at a guess. As your setup stands, I bet you get a good half stop or more just because of random reflections. What's more interesting to me is why? What or who is paying for a shot such as this, that you are so worried about what her face looks like? Faces are easy. In practice you'd be more likely to be shooting for the dress, in which case I'd use a 6' silver umbrella (Balcar) and feather it off from one side so its pointed almost 90 from the line between the subject and camera. You want to rake the light against the texture of the garment. Then I'd move a 4x8 white V-flat in until my fill was about 1:3 instead of the usual 1:2. If the model's face doesn't hold up well to the added contrast, I'd float a second small white card positioned to get stronger fill to just the face. Boom. This also allows a good sized area for the model to move with virtually no change in exposure. (sorry, us film guys are particular that way).