Westcott EyeLighter Review and Real World Test 

Ummm...Westcott cannot be happy, this was pretty bad

That guy creeped the crap out of that poor girl when he rubbed her hair without asking. Also why does he need to stand so close while behind her. Creepy all around.

I was looking for things to do in this tutorial instead I saw what not to do. A great example of having a lot of gear and not knowing how to use it. These photo examples are trash. Over touched up photos.

Such a flat lighting for so many flashes :o

Is the eyelighter good for a on location headshot photographer or would I be better off using a standard reflector?

Thanks, Very information. This video helped me a lot.

Thanks guys

Thank you for the video, any video tutorial helps even to the most advanced photographer. Although, please I suggest to educate yourself with the gear you are using. Westcott didn't made the Eyelighter reflector, the inventor of the Eyelighter is Larry Peters from Ohio, I bought my first eye lighter from him, and you guys should know that its not 30 inches from the subject face but 32 inches, 32 inches is the perfect distance. It format a triangle, Face-Eyelighter-Beauty Dish,... 32 inches from each other. Please keep learning before teaching. Much Love!

small dish and wrong location to make the eye lighter work it's best. I own it and it's fantastic but needs to be setup correctly

Why are you shooting too far away with the 85mm, and planning to crop it? Move the camera closer!

yay! you did 😉

Sorry guys, not convincing pictures. Regards Juergen

Sorry guys, you really missed the boat on this one. Your kicker is hitting her nose, which is very unflattering. Your main light is supposed to provide the light for the Eyelighter, not the hair light. This is why your shot without is underexposed. A more true test would have had you open your aperture to re-balance the exposure. Other people commented on your shooting so loose that you are wasting pixels. With a black background you could always expand it in post, but that has nothing to do with the light test.

Looks like a $2.00 dollar white card from Walmart may do the same thing. Might be better if you showed examples of pictures side by side with and without. I am not sure the picture with the eye lighter turned out that great.

All that nice gear, but no light meter to be found. And you wonder why your light is off....

Why not use a light meter instead of guessing and wasting your shutter count? lol

💥✨💥 8:36 I am not at all pleased with this lighting setup. That strip overhead makes it look like the model is being shot in the dentists office standing under a row of fluorescent lights in a drop ceiling. Not much has changed at 9:03

give Bill a mic.

Westcott is so expensive. So many other alternatives for 1/3 the price.

Mucho equipo, poco conocimiento de como usarlo. Retoque fatal!

If I were the model, I would feel like I am going into a C.T. scan. Tons of gagdets around me is not comfortable.

Sweet jesus move that hair light back. It's all over her nose 😅

Audio is not good

wtf is he doing at 4:01?!?!? really, dude?!?

What did I just watch

Today, i don´t know, why youtube is suggesting this video for me, but i will give you a comment: The placement and the angle from the beauty dish is simply wrong. This reflector should be more closeup at a distance, which should be nearly similar like his diameter...and at an angle of 30° - 45° downwards with the center pointed to the head. The deflectorplate from a beauty dish is there, to preventing a hot spot on your subject...with an other angle like on this setup, the flashbulb will make a hotspot like a regular reflector. And with that angle, the Eyelighter would also be able to reflect light from the beauty dish like from a clamshell setup. Remember: Angle of incidence = angle of reflection. Also with the diffuser "showercap" on the beauty dish, this lightshaper isn´t a beauty dish anymore. You will lose the additional contrast, which you did pay with buying this lightshaper. So you also could use straight forwards a softbox. Second mistake: the position and angle from the overhead softbox. This softbox has to show way more backwards/down and should only touch the shoulders and head with the feathered light from the edge from this lightshaper. This softbox shouldn´t add light on the Eyelighter, like on this setup. this softbox should only seperate the contours from the body from the background . Third mistake: the position and angle from the hairlight on the left side from this setup. This softbox should also only touch the contour from the body, and not the nose. 4th mistake: i don´t think, that you fully understand the use from a grid, otherwise, you wouldn´t have light from the two softboxes, which are behind that model, on bodyparts on the frontside (on the nose and nearly on the forhead). On this setup, this should be the job from the beauty dish alone. Only exception: the Eyelighter reflector. I guess, you probably only didn´t want the softboxes to light up the dark background, but...that´s nothing you couldn´t handle with some black cardboards, cutters or V-Flats. And with a closer beauty dish, you would already create a darker background.

Just all wrong for me , I pushed it on great gear .. I wouldn’t set it up like this abs no sign of a light meter !

drag

Don't know how to take pictures guys

Can t see what the eyelighter did..Very poor video..Watch Jason Lanier shooting with the eyelighter and learn how to use it..

Everyone has their own style, I get that, but this is way over lit. And not really a good way to "compare" the eye lighter. For one, chances are you would not use the Beauty Dish alone. You'd have either a white or silver somewhat large reflector underneath to create a clamshell type light set up. Or maybe even a fill light. I would have like to have seen you just replacing it with a large round reflector to show how it's different from something a lot cheaper to see if it's worth the investment. I don't believe it is. I see many use an eye lighter type reflector but I don't see the need. It's big. Takes a while to assemble. I have a stand with a reflector holder attached. I pop out my 36" or so round reflector, connect it to the holder and place it underneath my subjects face around sternum level. I use a total of two lights. I use a 44" Octa for my main and a medium strip box for a kicker/hair light on the opposite side. And a large round reflector underneath. Done. Beautiful results. Shadows are not bad things. They give shape and contour to the subject.

WTF….

yappy. Get to the point, or else do some video editing.

Hey fellas really? um no.....

No need for that many lights

Over complicated setup and the end results were not worth it.

There is no reason why Westcott need to charge those prices, none at all. Look at the materials - where is the $300... Same with the Hurley stuff. Will never purchase it.

Emart clamshell is better westcott too overpriced

Bad photos, bad technique

lol this is horrible

Who the heck is hiring these guys? Yikes.

Wow, insulting your models look, definitely a new approach to portrait photography

The obnoxious amount of re-touch making the poor models looking all plasticky is pathetic. I mean if that's what you were gonna do... why waste all that lighting. Utterly disappointed.

Horrible, dude. Thank God I was able to forward the first minute to the end. Blah blah blah

talking too much men !!!