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The effect here, which makes me think of black flames, was the result of a slow shutter speed (1\/20th) in the studio, using continuous lighting. The short duration of a flash pulse would’ve frozen the movement, so I needed continuous light for this effect.\u00a0I used two Litepanels Astra EP 1\u00d71 LED Panels<\/a>\u00a0(B&H<\/a>\u00a0\/\u00a0Amazon<\/a><\/em>) that I bounced into a V-flat\u00a0to soften the light.\u00a0I also used another V-flat to partially block the light\u00a0\u00a0towards her feet for more light fall-off to the bottom. The photo below is a pull-back shot that shows the setup.<\/p>\n Bouncing these continuous lights to further soften the light, is something I did as well during a\u00a0newborn photo shoot, described in this article:\u00a0Lighting for a small commercial video shoot<\/a>.<\/p>\n I had two people flipping the tulle upwards on either side of our model, Sarina, and then fired the camera at the maximum frame-rate possible for a shutter speed as slow as 1\/20th. Since the material dropped fairly fast next to her, I didn’t bother with exact time, but let the camera take care of getting enough images where the material was more or less symmetrical around her, and had enough of a flowing look to it – black flames!<\/p>\n In the final image, I added a vignette to the RAW file, and processed the JPG with Alien Skin Exposure X for a slight cross-processed look. I did this on a layer, so was able to reduce the opacity, and then with a layer mask, get natural skin tones again.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n And here is how we got the movement in the tulle dress – two people flipping it up in the air repeatedly while the camera fired at full-speed frame rate.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n I think it becomes a kind of habit\u00a0in a studio to think of lighting just in terms of flash, but using continuous lighting opens up creative possibilities to include movement.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Studio photography – Capturing movement with continuous lighting The effect here, which makes me think of black flames, was the result of a slow shutter speed (1\/20th) in the studio, using continuous lighting. The short duration of a flash pulse would’ve frozen the movement, so I needed continuous light for this effect.\u00a0I used two Litepanels Read more inside…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36687,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[480,22,24,136],"tags":[614,1003,234],"yst_prominent_words":[1116,12139,4717,1115,1021,12137,3388,3770,12141,1140,3394,3387,12147,1941,1129,1198,3393,3385,12134,4718],"class_list":{"0":"post-36621","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-continuous-lighting","8":"category-lighting","9":"category-models","10":"category-studio-photography","11":"tag-continuous-lights-for-portraits","12":"tag-litepanels-astra","13":"tag-studio-continuous-lighting","14":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36621"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36621"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52238,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36621\/revisions\/52238"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36621"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=36621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/images\/models\/sarina\/NVN_6132.jpg\")
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