Illuminating the Face on Location. With Peter Hurley. 

Clanidan You're welcome!

Clanidan Peter Hurley is defo an idol/role model for photographers to look up :) allso Joe Buissink for those who wants to be wedding photographers, they way he talks and explains is just mind blowing :)

he likes what he does, Passion, fun, shoots...sha bang

+Clanidan Peter Hurley has to little experience in light use regarding the fact that he has lots of years in photography. This tutorial is for beginners not for the Profoto brand! WEAK!!!

+Clanidan AND he's just a nice dude.

+Garett Barry :-)

+Garett Barry Yup. I do miss Maria Shapley as a model though. She would mug at the camera, make funny faces, while Jared was talking. Charming! And to be fair I do find Jared Polin helpful, this is just a huge order of magnitude more helpful. (Except I don't see the point of doing a video unwrapping a new lens and doing a "sniff test" -- fun yes but my time is precious.)

+Garett Barry Oh, c'mon, now! We all know this is EXACTLY what Jared will look like and act like 15 years from now when he finally mellows out a little. :-D I wish there was a living, breathing better version of my self that I could learn from.

Brandon Daniels and

I’d swear they’re related .. like brothers or father/son. Maybe not in educational style but voice, etc. 🤔

Agree!! ;-)

I am a beginner and find Peter Hurley extremely informative. Of course some of the stuff he speaks of requires some knowledge. I will try some of his techniques with my $90 aperlites and my $49 softbox. Communication with others cost nothing.

Well, u missed the point entirely I'm sorry to say. Watch videos like this to pick up how a pro WORKS - in his lighting, posing/interacting with his subjects and his manipulation of the technology. He said right in the beginning that he didn't own speedlights because he's a studio guy who uses Profoto studio strobes and all his modifiers are Profoto specific. But he also said that some of this stuff could be done WITH other equipment like speedlights but obviously shooting outdoors will require some serious power at times - power that speedlights don't have. ...'gear matters'? Sometimes yes and sometimes no. It depends. Btw, go check out Joe Edelman and his use of Home Depot led's and WalMart reflector boards - producing stunning studio effects WITHOUT Profoto strobes/modifiers. ...one more thing, this vid IS sponsored by Profoto - but u knew that, right?

Peter is a great salesperson

:D

There are a million strobes that work the exact same way,colour correct without the steep price.

Good, I'm tired of beginners only videos

KevTCC Pushing gear, pushing gear, pushing gear. That's all what these videos are really about :v

Antonio Alcala OK well I can agree with that sentiment, but please tell me what advanced thing you learned in this video? The gear being pushed (as gsxkatana noted) is not even in the same range as the information being presented. Peter makes me consider things and I'm sure I'll remember some of the gems here (not that I can right now because I can't...) but the lighting information is beginner to just past beginner in complexity. It is only the number of, and type of lights, he is using that differentiates this from a beginner video.

KevTCC I understand, I didnt mean any disrespect for beginners but is not that I learned much from this video, what I liked is that actually I am about to get a B1 kit plus a phase one body and lens, and it made me remember the days when I used my Mamiya RZ 67 with leaf shutter and rented profoto 7B kits, I also shoot fashion and headshots so the video appealed a lot to me, just that... certainly I loved that one can make really good use of the phase one leaf shutter to overcome the weak 500 watt power output of the B1s, thats what I found useful, very nice combination of gear in my opinion.

Antonio Alcala I want the B1s as well. They will suit my workflow very well and actually make my workflow in studio and out much more similar. But yeah the video, as entertaining as it is, really isn't for people who can't afford a studio or who are starting out. Other than light placement... which there are many better resources for everything is about how awesome these products are. Of course that's why Profoto made the video.

with that camera... because he put their asses at Shutter: 1/20,000 at F42, ISO 10 to shut their asses up and out that's why. Hurley simply knows wtf he's doing at those camera club mf's THINK they know better

have you tried ND filters?

same

You don't need to change power when playing with the shutter speed, but when you change ISO/aperture you have to change flash power accordingly.

no ego?????? I only see ego. How different people can view the world differently :)

I totally agree with you. But somehow good lighting gives final photo more professional look.

you know i was joking, right? lol

Yeap.

For instagram or fb it truly doesn’t matter cause she is beautiful.

in the BTS video log camera she already looked pretty good LOL

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I don't know about the photos that are shown earlier in the video, but I'm going to assume they are out of the camera or lightly tweaked since some of the photos have flaws I would personally have fixed. Also at around 29mins, you can see the photos are tethered through a program.

Orange is better :-) You may not see the black cable while on location and your notebook and/or camera will fly.

+George Torres Yes indeed. HSS gives you what you need to darken a background and highlight the subject. A speedlight may not be as powerful, but you can move it in close, or use a few if you have more than one. There are notable 3rd party speedlights like Yongnuo that give great results and are much less expensive than the main brand names.

Niko From Sofia I heard that, thought that, and just saw your comment...but he's a brilliant business person. :)

Niko From Sofia It has nothing to do with Sync Speed. He was talking about using the sun as fill and lighting his subject with the B1. He just happened to talk about the 1/1600th sync speed on his Phase One before he mentioned the ND filter. His exact words were "you can use a Neutral Density filter on the front of your lens to bring all the ambient light down." So say you're shooting on a Canon 5D Mark III, at a specific/required aperture (since he didn't want the city in the background to be way out of focus), and a sync speed of 1/250th... you can still use an ND filter to bring down the ambient light down. (As far as an ND filter is concerned, the actual ambient light AND strobe light IS ambient light) That's what he was talking about. :)

Joash Manning The fact that ND affects strobe and ambient light the same way, does not mean they are the both "ambient" . The term "ambient light" in the world of photography is pretty unambiguous. So when a guy in a tutorial about mixing ambient AND strobe light says : "If you don't have a /../ leaf shutter that can sync this high - you can use a Neutral Density filter on the front of your lens to bring all the ambient light down." it does sound like ND filters in a mixed light scenario somehow affect the ambient light only.

Niko From Sofia thought of reducing the ambient l with the ND filter and power the strobe up?

Tom Seifert Please, read my statement and understand that the only thing i'm saying is "ND filters are not a substitute for high sync speed". Yes, NDs do provide workaround IF you have lots of power at your disposal. Even with a modest 2-stop ND you'll have to go from 600Ws to 2400Ws to balance the sun.

a remote mic

Some shots are nice with her hair all in her face to give a look of a very windy day or a huge gust of wind :-]

+Henry Stradford Indeed! His one step could make both quite famous.

Yes it has

+kimberlee obhof usually the software that comes with the camera allows it, makes things much easier!

People should first learn to use natural light, reflectors and gobos and MINIMAL lighting techniques. That will teach them how to use strobes (when necessary). I suggest all portrait photographers study the works and teachings of both Leon Kennamer, the godfather of subtractive lighting and Dean Collins, the famous glamour photographer who often worked with minimal lighting.

+GeroLubovnik Absolutely!

Yeah obviously the equipment company asked him to do this video using their equipment, but he would still work the same way with other gear.

Word.

Yes - check out Damien Lovegrove for affordable kit & excellent rapport with models. Not keen on all this shouty stuff.

It's because there is 2 different light sources for the 2 subjects you mentioned. The profoto on the model and then the natural light on the buildings. Because they're different thats why it seems odd. Remember, he's shooting on full power so you get higher contrast too.