Speedlight Action with Peter Hurley 

This is amazing. Just heard of Peter Hurley and saw some of his videos using only medium format cameras, and how he’s “never owned a dslr.” It’s very uplifting to see how someone that normally uses $20,000 bodies can show us how to get similar results using any entry level body you can buy at Walmart. All about technique and directing your client. Love this guy. Thank you Perer Hurley

This is the realest, most honest presentation on headshots and entry level camera usage! Thank you, Peter! Shabang!!

Love the great smiles and emotion you get out of people. (and so quickly) Great job!

I like how they show awesome results with all entry level gear.

Jam that chin out, stop fooling around.... squinch the eyes, what are you doing. Hahahaha this guy is so bomb

This is truly SHIBANG presentation which tells you that everything is possible only if we want to be possible. Thank you, Mr. Hurley. I enjoyed this video and I will watch it again. Great lecturer.

You really dont even need two lights. I get the same lighting with a key light and a silver reflector! Love Peter's work!

There are people who will learn from this and be inspired and there are who will nitpick and be salty.

Peter Hurley is a genius. One of two photographers I respect.

Love your work Peter.. I started Headshot photography because of you. I live in NJ and will try to meet you soon.

love his personality!

Good stuff as always, Peter. Thanks for sharing your years of experience.

Interesting video. Good tutorial from a person who has always expensive gear plus continuous light and never used speedlites along with the smallest sized dslr in the Canon EOS lineup.

Great stuff! Very entertaining. Usually wouldn't watch videos this long but good info and good humor.

Great course and thank you, but shame on B&H shooting video at such a low quality. any issue for B&H to grab an a7s and cheap lens and shoot Peter Hurley ? :)

Neat, Encouragint to me with My Gear & Smal Home Studio - Love Your work

That was awesome Peter! I'm selling all my gear and getting that set up Thank you No no really it was dopeness

Love you Peter, you are the best!!!

"Rebel, Rebel - your hair is mess." "When you go into a bar, you gotta go the the left side." Masterclass in handling people - love it!

Reading the comments here is hilarious. How many photographers does it take to change a lightbulb? 10. One to change the bulb and 9 to explain how they would have done it better. The guy is one of the best headshot photogs on earth and I think his entry level rate is $1000 for a single in studio image. Nobody on this thread here makes that guaranteed...but by God they would have done it different and the pics all suck. ROFL.

Many thank's for this real great videos. I 've learn a lot.👍👍👍

Seems to me that many responders here (who are criticizing PH's work here) are missing the point. He isn't doing sports photography here. Nor birding/nature shots. He is just doing "headshots" and he just showed - very well- that you don't NEED to spend a fortune on gear to get good results. The operative word in that sentence is "good". He didn't say you could duplicate his efforts. But you CAN get a high quality image with lesser gear IF you follow the rest of the plan with lighting and posing. Yes, better gear is always a bonus but his shots here showed that at least it CAN be done with lesser gear...if need be. Basically, in short, he is trying to convey the old adage: "It's the Indian, not the arrows".

It seems like the description has the incorrect lighting kit linked.

Do you remember what lenses use it? Could me identify lenses please!?. Saludos 🇲🇽

where is that video that Peter talks about when he says he took his crew to the bahamas?

Peter Hurley, I plan on being in NYC late January and February. I would love to teach you how to use a light meter =)

Excellent

What Rapid Boxes did you use for this? Was it the 10x24 strip?

I didn’t notice the rim light, in the last photos. Did the back flash even fired off?

Damn that kitlens is BADDDD :)

+B and H I live in Algeria but you dont have a shop ther I hope you well open one in the futur

I had a 1ds in 2004. It was available in 2002.

Anyone knows a good video, tutorial or class on how to position 0 experience models ? I really struggle on how to position models. I'm complete beginner and I just don't how to position my friends/models. You can figure out the lights on the go.. but finding the postures is an absolute disaster. When I have session it's so disencouraging for me to continue because I have no idea what I want from models. Something like Peter said that he brings shoulder in front to make jaw line stronger, I want to understand how and why postures makes pictures look better. I'm more of an technical guy, the creative stuff gives me headaches.

Ambifacial ? ;-) Brilliant !

20:41 “Your earrings are enormous, your hair is a mess...” LMAO

If I worked for a newspaper, and only used photos in the paper and on the Internet, I'd buy something like the Olympus micro 4/3 and an 18 - 300 mm zoom. The fast 9+ fps would be useful, & I wouldn't be making 40 x 48" prints.

Gotta have modeling lights or continuous lights. Everybody “crane” for the chin line.

that's supper SHABAAAAANG

Well... it's a really good content, you should open one place in Warsaw that will help you reach polish pple. Awsome content is powerful and unusual here. I can easly help with that. Great job, stay in touch. Patrick.

Hurley is the master of charismatic negging.

So do you photoshop or crop the image to get rid of the soft box captured in the photos?

Everybody relax!

looks like the tripod costs more than camera))),this is the proof that gear does not matter ,everything depend on photographer skills

These are one of them "F.R.I.E.N.D.S" (TV SHOW) TYPE PHOTOS.

what size was the soft box

Exactly what model were those softboxes?

Who gave this a thumbs down??

So does. ANYONE know the size of the strip lights used here.??????

As I suspected, the rebel wasn't really up to the job.

omg I Need his tripod. It looks very sturdy. Anyone know what brand and which one it is?

interesting

15 minutes in and I still don't know what he's talking about.

"Oh just relax!" :}

I love Peter Hurley's work but I have to say from this that its obvious lens and camera make a huge difference . I was not very impressed with the results. it could be that he never uses that kind of equipment so he has manipulate settings more which is frustrating with cameras that lack adjustment latitude and takes more time to get it right .

He makes things difficult

Salty people will never learn and their work will always suck no matter how expensive their gears are.

As others point out, gear does matter; in spite of what he keeps trying to convince people of. The truth is that if it did not, all pros would use the cheapest gear out there so they could maximize their profits. You CAN use inexpensive gear and get relatively good results though. And I think that is really what he is trying to say. You can use a cheap tripod, and it will work. Now use one that costs 3 times the price and see the difference. You CAN use a cheap camera and lens and get adequate pictures for basic use. Now use an expensive camera and great lens and do a direct comparison. If you can't see the difference you need to get out of photography. And THAT is why the best photographers use the best gear. PERIOD. But the trick in these videos is to NOT show those in the seminar any direct comparisons. And these seminars are meant to make entry level photographers feel better about their gear and keep them shooting... and keep shooting. The skills needed for both levels of gear are the same. The end quality though will NOT be given the same amount of skill. I will also point out that the better the camera the easier it is to mess up a shot. It will accentuate any errors you make, while lower end cameras can actually cover up errors because of their general lower quality. It is why many times moving to a better camera and better lens will frustrate photographers at first. They don't see the instant quality increase, but often LESS quality. And that is because they got lazy with the lower quality gear and all their flaws are magnified. It is also why PH uses a tripod most of the time; to eliminate human error. Sorry, went off on a journey there, but yes, gear matters. "Gear does not matter" is only used to.... sell more gear... ironically. And why? Because a lot of the gear is cheap gear, and selling cheap gear is better than selling NO gear. ;)

To full of himself for me, bordering on rude.

Does this guy get to the point ???

God, this bloke tells some lies...

Like all but the subject is too far to the right and picking up too much of the light modifier. We shouldn't need photoshop to clone it out.

Great helps, but arrogant

over exposed don't like the pic

did this guy ever heard of modeling light... seriously!

stop fooling people, there's a huge difference between entry level camera vs a pro camera. AND product does matter.

Stick to rehearsed vids, you are much better at it.

This guy doesn't know WTF he's talking about. He says his continuous light brings out the color of the eye because it makes the pupil small. I'm here in my bathroom at night looking in the mirror with nothing but a 7-watt nightlight and my pupil is tiny. So, unless he's shooting at night with ALL the room lights OUT and NO modeling lights, eyes will have plenty of light and plenty of color for strobe photography. And what model/subject wants all those bright lights around their face, so close and confining?? He's just selling equipment for B&H. "SALES Perspectives". LOL