Studio Lighting For Beginners - The Three Light Setup | Mark Wallace
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- Опубліковано 16 чер 2024
- In this episode, Mark Wallace explains why the three-light setup is the foundation for every lighting setup. Mark walks through each light, meters, and shows the results. Once the three-light setup is finished, Mark shows how the concepts can be adapted for other lighting setups. Once you understand these basics you'll be able to create almost any setup imaginable.
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0:00 Introduction
1:15 Setting up the Key light
4:09 Metering the Key light
6:02 Setting up the Fill light
7:29 Metering for EV differences
11:30 Setting up the Hair light
15:00 Comparing key, fill, and hair lights
15:26 Converting a 3-light setup to a 4-light setup
17:22 Converting a 3-light setup to a 2-light setup
19:35 Conclusion and additional tips
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THANKS SO MUCH FOR WATCHING! - Навчання та стиль
Cheers to you and Teresa , Mark, for an outstanding video. Love the setups you demo'd and really enjoyed your animation showing each light, then all lights. What a teaching tool!
Excellent video Mark. You show, and explain thing's so well. You are a great photography teacher.
This is an excellent video! Thanks to Mark and to Adorama for putting this up. (I even bookmarked it for a repeat viewing.)
Gotta say...I first dived into the lighting arena with so much inspiration from the many UA-cam videos watched. I purchased the right equipment, within my mean of course. I returned some over the top things I found really were not needed at this time. I was totally overwhelmed by the entire lighting process and turned back to my passion...wildlife and nature photography. I just about swore off doing any studio portrait work. Then I ran across this tutorial for Studio Lighting for Beginners - The Three Light Setup with Mark Wallace. That inspiration returned and I thought....This is one of the easiest, user friendly tutorials I've seen yet. I broke out my two Soft lights, a snoop and even threw in a couple of affordable LED color lights for enhancement. I viewed this video several time and attempted to mock every step as I could. After about 3 weeks of playing around, it all came together. My pictures turned into portraits. I was able to achieve the same lighting, with a little modification also learned from the video. Now with another week past and posting some self samples to my social media accounts, one of my friends actually requested a session with me. I jumped on the opportunity to have an outside model and offered to do it for free in order to relieve any stress I may get from my first time. Thank you for sharing this video and for rekindling my inspiration into another field of photography.
can I check your social media? I wonder how the results was
Thank you for explaining this in detail without being complicated. I really appreciate it.
Thank you Mark this was a great tutorial for a novice like me. You have the knack of explaining things so clearly and I always enjoy watching your videos and learning from them. Much appreciated keep up the great work.
thank you Mark. You are still awesome. I learned photography through your videos over a decade ago.
Great articulation and so simple for beginners to pick up! You opened up a whole door in front of me ... thanks Mark 👍🏼👌🏼
Extremely interesting and well taught session on the 3-light system Can't wait op go out and try this
Selection of Teresa is great taste. But your teaching this so simple and easy 100/100. Great job.🎉
Brilliant presentation with absolute clarity. Full marks.
I'm doing research as well as a brush up on studio lighting especially for a job and this has been a really good refresher into lighting and made me feel more prepared thanks
Excellent lighting and demonstration of a classic 3 light setup . Learned a lot in 1 lesson especially about the differences in stops..Well done !
Mark as always your teaching skills are amazing. I have learnt so much just watching you and Joey. Thanks to you both and Adorama.
Wow...I am new to photography. But haven't seen such explanation over internet about lighting. Just Wow
Your diligence is sincerely appreciated.
Well explained video about 3-light setup. The foundation for taking your portrait photography to the next level.
Thank you for providing such clear explanations of how to set up photography lighting.
Thanks Mark, I always appreciate your excellent videos 👍
What an excellent teacher 🙏🏽
I love this. As someone who only does hobby street photos with (often participating) strangers, I try to replicate these ideas using what's in the street. The sun for a key light, a white wall like a fill light, maybe even my camera flashlight as a back light (if I trust someone to hold it!) although that's fairly untested so far and may be too weak.
So yeah, I'm always trying to look where big white walls are etc. Sometimes I'll hold up my clenched fist to see where the shadows are.
Thank you Mr.Mark simple and clear
Very straight to the point video! Perfect!❤
Great tutorial video, you are a great Teacher Mark Wallace!
Simple and comprehensive. Thank you for your informative video
Awesome explanation of the main/fill/hair light setup
Really amazing video. Absolutely perfect for beginning portrait photography.
GreaT!! i LIKE the Key Light only! Thanks for teaching so well!
Thanks Mark for the explanation! Awesome
Another great video from Mark!!
So helpful & clearly explained! Thanks!
thank you for this very clear and interesting lesson on lighting , I will follow you from now on. I AM a beginner and ready to learn from you
Getting started is difficult simply from all of the choices of light modifiers and light stands. For example, I now have a 36" and a 48" round softbox, a normal light stand, and a C-stand. Some of that was included in a package deal so I didn't have a choice of type, etc. But after watching a bunch of videos, it seems like I also need to add strip boxes, and square boxes to the line-up. It's just overwhelming when starting out. I'm obviously going to practice with what I've got and learn the in and outs, but there is just so much to learn.
loved the way you explained the activities...
Excellent explanation Mark. I don't use the Sekonic light meter so I'll have to keep remembering how many F stops is a full stop. But fantastic way of explaining all of that.
This is incredible Mark...cheers!
thank you, very clear and informative!
Great tutorial Mark, thank you!
A masterclass. Well done!
Amazing explenation, thanks
This was incredibly helpful!
A wonderful lesson ❤ Thanx guys!
Thank you for this great session
Thx! Great basic lighting video!
Brilliant !! cheers!!
Always enjoyable!
Excellent Video. Very informative.
Hi Mark, great tutorials. You explain things really well. Question for you.... what type of set up would you use if you had two or more people in the shot?
Great explanation. Well done.
Thanks for the tip Mark your the best
This is awesome! Thanks
Thank you for explain very easily :)
excellent light setup video 👌👌
Thanks man i appreciate that great video
Love it!!! Thanks, Mark!!! Im motivated now to do this when I get off of work!! It was very easy and very understanding!
Hope you bring back Mark in coming months? Great instructor.
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these videos are great !
best video on the topic.
Very use full knowlage in 3 light setup
Well explained!
excellent sir,thank you
Very useful for a newb like me, thanks!
Fantastic!
Love the video. Just a little bit of history, if you look at portraits of photographers most are wearing dark shirts.
perfect, good teacher
Awesome 👍
Thanks sir your kind information 😘😘😘
Thank you. I don't use it as it gives you 'cats eyes'. Still interesting though, please keep them coming, they have been helpful.
Very informative
I understand thank you
Excellent
nice tips ...... thanks bro,....
Brilliant
Thank you Mark.
Enjoyed that one and learned a lot !!
Really well explained again.
Thank you teresa for your effort standing a whole 20 mins
Thought I'd mention a problem I experienced. Using correct settings as advised, my images looked over exposed when reviewing on the camera rear screen. Took me a while to realize that I had the screen set to fully bright for outdoor viewing. Perhaps Adorama customers should be aware of potential misunderstanding. Thanks for the great videos, Mark Wallace in particular.
The histogram is vital for this aspect.
It's good to be refreshed in studio lighting . Although I now do now 98% environmental photography . It has been 30 plus years since , I've done any studio photography ! The principles are still the same . Mr. Light meter as well as lighting system has advanced to where you can add more than 5 lighting strobes in lighting your scene ! Remarkable video tutorial on Studio lighting !
I don't do any either & Mark makes me want to go out & purchase everything!
Great!!!!!!
perfekt. vielen Dank
THANKYOU
Thanks so much. This is great video. I might have missed it but when you meter for your fill light, your key is turned of? I've done this before and when I turned the key and the fill on, there was too much light. It's hard for me to control the light in small space.
Great video mark
I use a mola Demi main
3’ Octa fill
1X3 strip with a grid for a fill
As for the hair or kicker I set based on hair color. Blonde lower power darker hair high power
When you have a sec could you do a demo with the Elinchrom Five, one.
Have a great day
This is an easy an great tutorial. But i would teach students doing this without a lightmeter! Maybe that will take more time to learn, but it brings much more knwoledge in lightning from the beginning. 🙂
"i've never see a 15-20 light setup, but it could be" Joe McNally "Hold my Nikon"
the best.
That model's got a great rack for photography. Muy nice.
Great information. I want to photograph 30mm miniatures using the three lights, would the same information apply?
Cheers
Matt
France
great explanation of the fundamentals. I’ve done portraits over the years but it’s not my main type of photography, so I’m glad to have a refresher. Also, you got a nice model, howabout having her put on some fashionable modeling clothes next time :)
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Thanks for the video Mark. I don't do much of this type of photography so I only have one flash and a shoot through umbrella. Could I get away with using two reflectors in place of the the fill and hair lights for the few times that I may do this?
You could! It will be tricky to get the light bouncing exactly right, but it can be done. Give it a shot and let us know how it goes.
@@MarkWallaceVideos will do, thanks
Mark, why not use true stops, say, f11 for your key light, to make subsequent calculations easier?
I just put up my lights and take a test shot. No $500 meter needed.
Will the lights in my house matter? I have two large windows with natural light but should I use blackout curtains? Confused about how the room should be.
I think that the camera is pretty photogenic. You should have left it in 😀
Well done, Mark! One question, though...when you're metering the Fill Light and the Hair Light, are you turning the other light(s) off so that only the light you're metering is turned on or are all the lights turned on and adding to the metered exposure?
Hi Mark, can you please answer this question. I assume you’re turning the other lights off when you’re meeting each light, correct?
I don’t think so. I think you need to fire all the lights. You are trying to achieve fill light falling on the subject to have one stop less than key light. That fill light should include the light bouncing from the key light say from the wall, if it does. Same for hair light. Correct me if I am wrong.
@@ramukmarks i agree with you ，
It doesn't matter if the lights are turned on.. when the lumisphere is recessed or is shielded from other lights it will give reading only for the light it is directed towards.. it's different from when you are average metering with the lumisphere out and can 'see' all around.. the first reading that mark took was with the lumisphere out because it was the only light present..
You can either turn off the other lights or just retract the light meter globe so it is not sticking out (he mentions that in the video and also you see him standing in front of the other light he is not metering) and catching any of the other light. So when metering lights you just want to meter the light your metering.
I have the key light, fill light, do I really need the hair light? I am filming in my room and there are plenty of lights from windows above.
So with these lights & trigger/controler you could use them with any brand camera system, just not TTL, correct? Great vid.
No, the trigger (controller) and flashes are proprietary. You have to get triggers that match your flashes. I shot all this in manual mode, but these lights do have TTL if you prefer that.
@@MarkWallaceVideosI think that is what I’m saying. All Ellinchrome flashes/trigger/controller. Should work on any camera brand in manual.
We used to call that a “ double kicker” with fill.
i need this model for studio lighting
Super rrrrrr .My age 76yrs once I am using Metz 502 and 60 ct1with mecalux slave for industrial photography with Hasselblad 500 Cm with 50mm Ditagon lens . It is my experience with you