Shooting With A Translucent Umbrella 

I think it’s always best when the model smiles and Evelyn has a great one.

She's absolutely gorgeous!

Love watching a master at work. Thank you for talking and walking us through your process.

Peter, long story short: I was about to quit photography when I discovered your channel. I am now in the process of building my own studio and start over. You literally saved my life. Thank you.

I'm always interested in how Peter interacts and grooms his models and the psychology of posing...

Love it. We learn, we forget, and then we rediscover again. Believe it, you do it. Be lucky stay safe.

An inexpensive umbrella can really light a reasonable space using only a Speedlight. But, Peter’s posing and editing skills add a huge increment to the result. Lovely model, hope to see her again. She clearly is comfortable with Peter and dazzles with that smile.

It's really interesting to see behind the scenes. It never occurred to me until I saw this video that having a heater for the model was done. Now my thought is "of course!"

That is one humungous studio, and expensive toys to go with it!!!

Nice to see how you actually work with the models too, Peter. I can see such a big difference in the model's attitude comparing the first set of shots to her topless shots. You really see a difference in her confidence and that's really huge. Good work, love it.

the video has almost nothing to do with the umbrella or lightning, but everything to do with posing and working with a model. magnificent.

that umbrella is my number one trick for portraits, it's the most portable solution and just works great everytime. Loved Peters reaction to the first shots, probably threw him back right to the 80s using this modifier. xD

Love your running comments when viewing monitor. Thank you, Bec & Eve👏👏👏

I haven’t shot any B&W work in so long, this is making me want to pivot back to that style Fantastic work as always Bec and Peter the two of you are a dynamic duo 🔥

Stunningly Beautiful! Well done, Sir!

I don't mean to sound crass or uncouth, but the model is extremely attractive and kind of difficult to pay attention to your technique teaching, Peter.

After playing around with lots of fancy/expensive modifiers I have returned to shooting almost exclusively with umbrellas (both translucent and silver- with optional diffusion 'sock' as well - both large for softer and smaller for edgier more contrasty light). Inexpensive/fast/flexible - and used properly they give a TON of lighting options. (They just don't make a lot of $$$ for the manufacturers so they aren't 'pushed' in marketing). I also think there is a mystique about a photographer bringing a $3K focusing Para that impresses clients and makes others think that they need those expensive toys to create great images!!! I actually usually have a 7 foot translucent umbrella on wheels during my shoots to use as my quick fill for wherever it is needed- easier than playing with moving V-flats- and much more controllable...

You are doing a great job Bec and Mr Peter

Nice to see a model without the tats. I don’t think most model recognize that the tats are a complete distraction to their natural beauty & rarely add anything.

Once again you did a great job, Peter and Bec. Thanks a lot for another tutorial. Just keep up doing what you do, keep bringing beauty into this world.

Your photos are spectacular - I love the black and white

I actually use a translucent umbrella and bounce the flash instead of shooting through it. It seems to spread the light more and soften it. I'm sure I use more power, but it works great for me.

very simple and beautiful. thanks master

I clicked for the girls, but I stayed for the awesome gizmodery! Very cool.

Oh my goodness Evelyn is BEAUTIFUL! Be Still My Heart

Always a pleasure to watch you work.

You guys have amazing ideas

Thank you, Peter, Evelyn and Bec, funny that I had just pulled out one of the translucence umbrellas! now to use more . Stay safe have fun

Peter, great to see what you can achieve with just a single light source.

Gorgeous light, gorgeous model, gorgeous images :)

As you say light is the easy part.......tell Bec she looks great in the glasses

I think that nice that you have heater for model to stay warm

The model is so Georgious 🔥

Really like this lighting. Has that nice wrap

Yes all of the models are incredibly beautiful but your assistant is the epitome of cute and cute is actually quite powerful

You may not have used that kind of equipment for a while. But you certainly haven't lost your skillset. Really nice series of images, with great feeling and lighting.

beautiful poses ! Beautiful model !

You have the best job

great stuff. I dig the translucent umbrella idea. nice work as usual.

Love the "nothing but shoes" shots and the final image of Evelyn. I'll have to look for the "shoes" book. I probably shot through umbrellas when I first started doing studio photography, but quickly went to soft boxes.

Love the way you teach.. 🤗

You always get great results! Thanks for sharing.

Getting to shoot some gorgeous models. One of the perks of the job, I guess. Dynamic photos , by the way.

Err.....there was an umbrella? Just kidding, another wonderful shoot and yes, I may have to dig out my old shoot through umbrellas to play around a bit too!! CC

Amazing

Poor man’s Octabox. Being using this on a lot of location shots it’s light easy set up and not too shabby. Of course if I had assistants it would be different - nice vid

Love it

Great shoot, reminds when I had to use filters to color correct for the tungsten lights I had back in the day.

Lovely! 😍😍😍❤️

Waow.... Interesting

I have a lot of respect for Peter Coulson due to his artistic taste, his candidness, and the care that he demonstrates for his models. There was something in this video that raised a concern, though. His comment at 8:34 seems to imply that he makes substantial digital alterations to his photos. I have no objection to him modifying the lighting, but adding or removing objects crosses an important line for me. I know that not everyone sees things this way. (Heck, Google's new phone was advertised primarily on its ability to remove objects.) However, I think the notion that photographs contain all of the that were there is an extremely useful assumption to be able to make, and so there should be a strong social more against violating it.

You got me very interested with "Shooting With A Translucent Umbrella" title... With just one small diameter umbrella, as far as I cold see in this video, result is extremely good. I am not sure if lots of white wall behind you model affect in whole lighting, and final result?

Yeah smile of model is great.

Great collaboration

🤗 💜 💚 Stunning

Thx for accepting the challenge! Great result! I will put it on twitter!

Looking smart with shiney and long hairs.

It's the best.💓💓💓

Really amazing and you worked well with the model, the umbrella bit I’m unfamiliar with, nice effect. Regards Roland

So after shooting again with a shoot through, what do you find to be different in the light?

Night and day different between first series (with shirt) and afterwards (without). Like 2 different models.

Nice

This is similar to a difuser used in diving, removes glare and fills in the lighting gaps...

i like the new "most played" feature..

Hi Peter , this was a surprise as I didn't think the translucent would provide sufficient light. You made it work and produced beautiful images. Love how you communicate with the models, and taking good pictures, 'if you believe it, you do it'. Question, is it always required to have the model sign a model release? Say, if you're shooting for your portfolio, to go on your website?

very nice photo shooting.

Where does one get the frame work Equipment that the camera sits on ?

I have a feeling he has not shot with translucent umbrella in a while 😂

Wow Super

Are you shooting this video in 24p? Any chance you can convert it to 29.97 with a 3:2 pulldown? I’m noticing some stuttering and i think it will help.

excellent

She reminds me of Kim Basinger.

You seem to shoot only Black and White images. I am not a fan of B&W and the plain back drops but I concede you are good at that style of photography. I like the colour fashion style shots. I look forward to seeing you shoot some colour images .

wondering what model your pair of displays is? they appear to be glossy, which is really hard to find in desktop monitors

Good

great transition with Evelyn! before the reset, she seemed really stiff. her face and body relaxed quite a bit after. you can email me direct if youd rather not reply here but what kind of financial arrangement do you have here. this is your 3rd time with Evelyn and you have shot with other models more than once, are you paying them for their time, are they paying you for your work or are you running them TfP? the first and the last dont pay for much studio time i wouldnt think. love your work. im going through some of your vids for the 2nd and 3rd time now. mostly because i have a hard time remembering what ive seen

What editing software are you using? Do you have presets for Photoshop for purchase?

Peter, What would you get to replace the Bowens 150 umbrella style softbox if you had to do so? I would really really like to know. Thank you

Your welcome

Great

Hi guys, another great video! I am wondering why Peter does not use a wireless release?

Nice 👍👍😃

You will want to skip forward to 7:06. Your welcome.

wow

Nice.....

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Umbrella size, just curious I didn't hear it mentioned.

Many thanks for this backstage video. - @Bec: Many thanks for introducing and closing this session, and for being with the video camera. It has been pleasant to see the Model from different angles. - @Evelyn: I see you as a person that always brings a smile in your face. I like a lot your upright pose at 7:45, with bent knees, with parallel legs to the floor, with a perfect right angle; geometry in on your side. In the other hand, these horizontal and vertical axes are decorated by the “S” shape of you trunk and the “S” shape of your legs. Your left forearm covering your chest and your right arm are in perfect parallelism. I think you have a beautiful silhouette. - @Peter: from my point of view, this is a different session type, because there is a lot of presence of white components. I use to say the presence of light is highly required in dark contexts. Now I can see the opposite: the presence of darkness is highly required en lighting contexts. And my eyes are a little bit desperate to Many thanks for this backstage video. - @Bec: Many thanks for introducing and closing this session, and for being with the video camera. It has been pleasant to see the Model from different angles. - @Evelyn: I see you as a person that always brings a smile in your face. I like a lot your upright pose at 7:45, with bent knees, with parallel legs to the floor, with a perfect right angle; geometry in on your side. In the other hand, these horizontal and vertical axes are decorated by the “S” shape of you trunk and the “S” shape of your legs. Your left forearm covering your chest and your right arm are in perfect parallelism. I think you have a beautiful silhouette. - @Peter: from my point of view, this is a different session type, because there is a lot of presence of white components. I use to say the presence of light is highly required in dark contexts. Now I can see the opposite: the presence of darkness is highly required in enlightened contexts. And my eyes are a little bit desperate to find dark references; have you ever woken up from a long nap in the afternoon, and for some seconds you don’t know who you are, where you are? Other point is the question that comes to my head: if diferente lighting accessories types produce the same type of photography results, doesn’t this nullifies diversity? I mean: if A, B, C, D, … produce Y, Y, Y, Y,… doesn’t this ignore the value of A, B, C, D, … ? I am not a photo pro so this question may not make sense in a photo pro context. find black references; the compass seems to be broken. Have you ever woken up from a long nap in the afternoon, and for some seconds you don’t know who you are, where you are? Other point is the question that comes to my head: if diferente lighting accessories types produce the same type of photography results, doesn’t this nullify diversity? I mean: if A, B, C, D, … produce Y, Y, Y, Y,… doesn’t this ignores the diversity that A, B, C, D, … provides? I am not a photo pro so this question may not make sense in a photo pro context.

7:41 lamp with propane . This is the first time I've seen a photographer use it.

Hi Peter, i’m a photography student in Belgium. And i love your videos ands style! I’m working mostly in studio like you. I’m currently shooting with a Sony A7 R III with a 50 and 35 mm lens. I’ve the change to buy a Hasselblad H3DII 39mp with an 80 mm 2.8 and a 150 3.2 lens together with the 39mp Hasselblad back. I also have a little studio where i shoot tethered al the time. So i have the capability to tether throughout firewire 800 because i have al old iMac with firewire 800 built in to the back and several Macbooks with the firewire 800 to thunderbolt 2 adapters. I can buy the Hasselblad kit for 1823€ Do you think its worth it? Kind Regards Mats Takacs

My guess is that Peter has never met a light he didn't like.

Así cualquiera es fotógrafo, sin carrete, sin revelado, sin positivar, Cuando yo ejercía de fotógrafo no se disparaban las tomas tan a la ligera, Después de una sesión llegaba, el empaquetado de los carretes, el envío al laboratorio para revelar, impresionar los contactos y con la lupa seleccionar las mejores tomas, eso si que era un trabajo artesanal y artístico, ahora, cualquiera es fotógrafo.

What are you selling again?

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Are you or the model on PurplePort?

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The only real difference between a shoot-through brolly and a soft box or the like is that there is light reflected backwards and there is less control over light spilling all over the place. For the unwary, this can soften the image due to the unwanted light so make sure you use a good lens hood! A shoot-through brolly is less directional as light fills the room more than a soft box. So a soft box is more directional and controllable (particularly if you use a grid) whilst a shoot-through is less so. You should also consider that shoot-through methods, generally, will have a hotspot centrally whilst a soft box has dispersed lighting - typically because the light usually points backwards and is reflected back evenly in a soft box. If your soft box has the light pointing at the subject, then really you have the same hot-spot issue so make sure your light is diffused additionally in the soft box. After this the only other factor to think of is if you like the shape of the reflections in the eyes of your model or whatever you are photographing. But in all honesty, this video has nothing to do with the lighting rig other than a minor mention of it at the start. It is really just an excuse to bait-click the unwary. That said, there is lots to learn in the simplicity of the set-up... just a shame that the lorded Peter C didn't really make explain this and certainly didn't make the most of the beautiful model's obvious ability! Well done model but hardly the greatest PC photos I have seen... in all senses of the meaning of the latter!

Peter Coulson Mate just one question, well maybe a couple. look I have no idea how to take pics, I play a bit of guitar, but I can never take a selfie, it never works,, No Mate, the question is "Where the hell have you been all this time, your pics are amazing, How come you have just burst onto the scene. Your models most probably look like ordinary ladies, but your results shoots them straight into the stratosphere, Just saying,,,,,, regards,,, Gib

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The video headline and photo were misleading