Thanks for sharing your BTS with details about the light, and the motivation for why you do it. Would have been great to see a few examples of the feathering in effect, but perhaps that is in another of your videos?
Nathan Elson is King! Thank you so much for your latest Film-Preset-Pack - what a spectacular special offer - keep up your major work and best wishes from germany
Great work there man! Thanks, it gave me lots of ideas. Plus, lil fact back in the day was impossible to lay on the light the way the model does cause tungsten lights were hot af, instant burn, so quite surreal thing.
Hi Nathan, I really enjoy your videos as I'm new to studio lighting. One small piece of advice is to acknowledge the model at the start of the video...."this is lovely Alena (or whoever)" and go and stand near them to make them feel included, relaxed and appreciated. Our photographs of people are nothing without, ummm, people! cheers, Guy
Just subscribed, coming from your shoot with Irene. I loved your work at the beginning of the video. These tutorials are gold. Keep the good work and I hope you will have more subscribers soon.
superb video, thanks for the details.. it is almost unbelievable how good is the image from straight out of the camera.. the colours, and her skin is too perfect :)
Awesome video man!!! I've been working with lighting in this way for quite some time. Good to see someone out there that can put it all together on video and help out others.
I'm late to the party as well, bit discovered one of your more recent tutorials, followed and have watched nearly all of them. Great job in front of the camera - engaging, informative, and the right balance of personality and technical discussion. I appreciate that you take the time to explain why. Nice job! Also, where did you get that stage light shell?????
Thanks Christopher, I appreciate the kind words :) As for the stage light, another photographer at the studio (3 of us run it) found it and repurposed it into a decoration for the studio so I've used it in a couple of my concepts. I have no idea where they found it though.
Agree. Surprised you don't have more subscribers. I like videos like this: short and packed with useful info that can be easily digested. Not really a fan of the 20, 30, 60 min videos that sometimes have the same content over and over. Good Job!
Nick Schulman thanks. Honestly I haven’t done a lot in terms of RU-vid content, so there hasn’t been much to follow me for, but that is changing now. Lots more coming down the pipe.
Great set up, great explanation, good understanding. I don't know why it's still a trend in US & CAN to over-retouched the skin of those human being. They have epiderm ffs. Cheers mate.
Absolutely fantastic Nathan....this is a real good look.....just subbed too...can you tell me what cam you shot this on and what was your profile/picture style settings were please. Keep up the good work!!!
This was an amazing video! Please post more like this! Just found your channel it’s golden. Love it! If your ever in Toronto I’d love to take some lessons one on one to learn high key fashion lighting
Nice vlog Nathan, I just discovered you form Irene's channel and the photoshoot she did with you... it was great, she is amazing, this is the first video from your channel I watch and I really liked they way you explained the lighting there... I love photography and I'm in a learning process, trying to understand/learn light, I follow a lot of photographers but none of them explain why they setup their lighting the way you did here... so thanks to that I immediately subscribed to your channel and will see what else I can learn from you and get inspired... I following you on Instagram as well, you'll see me there as @iSpanglish. cheers!
Ewen Lewis thanks man. Not sure why IG would go out of sync, but if there is anything that is consistent about various platforms, it’s that they are inconsistent :)
I just picked one up. Search for Mole Richardson or ARRI light. The larger one he had can be pretty expensive, although it might have been cheaper if it was just the shell. The one I got was a Mole Richardson 407 Baby Solarspot. Not as big, decent enough for a prop. Paid $150 including the rolling stand.
I know you black and white is your style but I think its especially important to have color when you are trying sell a backdrop and preset packs. I think it would be really nice to have color for these shoots.
Color review of the backdrop here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-yggsE1XYyOE.html (btw, I'm not selling the backdrops) and you can see the preset work (both colour and black and white) in my latest video. Cheers -Nate
I'm so glad I found you in Instagram again. I missed your videos. This one was so good. Question though. If you shoot at 1/160 or 200 you can still see the constant light that bright at f8?
Hi Nathan i watch all your Videos and you never Mention ones the Einstein lighting just i want to know why you talked pretty much about every gear you have.... Thx...
I'm not using Einstein lighting anymore, including in this video ;) I'm now shooting with the Strobepro X600Pro lights (same as the Godox AD600 Pro). A review on them will be coming in time.
Kevin Queen i don’t think it’s supposed to be earth shattering or life changing but this is a printable look that art buyers or high end b2c clients would pay thousands for. It sounds like a) you don’t have the skill to even begin trying this & that’s ok. b) it’s printable work that will get you more work!! I don’t see where the problem is guy? You just got a free recipe for your tool box and you’re complaining..😂😂
