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Video light portrait

July 29, 2009 Neil vN 20 Comments

Video light portrait

A portrait of Amy, one of our models at the recent workshop in Brighton, UK.  Here we used a single video light on her. I love the dramatic quality the light imparts, and how you can flag the light with the barn-doors to create a specific fall-off to the light in the background.  The strong vignetting helps in giving it that dramatic look. In figuring out the direction of light, and how to place the video lighting, I am largely guided by way the shadow of the subject's nose is falling across her face.  I then direct the model and the person who holds the light, to move slightly if  Read more inside...

using video light for portraits

June 24, 2009 Neil vN 7 Comments

using video light for portraits

using video light for portraits

In reply to some questions on using video light for portraits, here are some images of Sasha, a model who brought an entirely appropriate sense of the dramatic to the photo session.  With vintage clothing and hats, the video lights appeared a good choice for lighting. For this session, I had an assistant who held up two Lowel ID-lights (affiliate), each with barn-doors to flag the light and stop light spill .. and in this way get a lot of control over the direction and placing of the light.   The one light was used to light up our model,  Read more inside...

video light & boudoir photography

April 6, 2009 Neil vN 7 Comments

video light & boudoir photography

using a video light for boudoir photography

An image from a boudoir photo session today.  I ended up mostly using a video light (or two) for the directional and dramatic quality of the light.  I tried on-camera bounce flash a few times, but even when I carefully flagged and bounced the flash, there were a number of times where I found that the bounce flash just evened out the light too much.  Sometimes it is soft light, and sometimes it just becomes flat light. With the video light (held up by my assistant), I was able to ask my assistant to flag the light and drop the light off  Read more inside...

embracing tungsten light

January 15, 2009 Neil vN 28 Comments

embracing tungsten light

wedding photography - working with incandescent light sources

As a wedding photographer I obviously shoot all the time in ares lit by tungsten / incandescent light sources. With modern D-SLRs and fast lenses it is no problem to actually use tungsten light as my main light source. The photo above from a recent wedding, is a typical image where I used an existing incandescent / tungsten light source for a beautiful but simple portrait. Here I photographed the bride by the light of a lamp in the living room.  No flash was used - just the lamp and whatever other ambient light existed  Read more inside...

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