Lighting Dramatic Team Portraits with Matt Hernandez
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- Опубліковано 26 січ 2016
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Talented sports and portrait photographer Matt Hernandez offers some fantastic lighting tips in this video on capturing professional team portraits.
Matt captured these dramatic team portraits with a strobe modified by a Westcott Parabolic Umbrella. These large umbrellas are essential tools for photographing groups as they create a very broad, even light source.
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I love your work and videos, I hope you keep coming out with more. You don't ramble on or waste time etc. Thank you, you've helped me a lot.
Thanks for watching.
Nice job Matt, impressive, professional and informative.
Short and Super informative. Thank You!
Thanks Matt.. Easy to understand and to the point
Great results. :) That parabolic looks like it can cast some serious light.
+pscully1969
yea, and for the price, its hard to believe everyone does not have one of these in their arsenal
thanks for watching
Great tip for the side lights.
Thanks for watching, Milos!!
Just gained a subscriber.... very informative
Great video
I love this video!!! i just love it !!
i have a quick question. i am a student photographer and im shooting a college swim team which has about 50 people
they want the photos to be taken at the pool.. i shoot with 7d mark 2 and i do have the paul c buff with an 47 inch octobox.. should i add two more sizd lights and do what you did in the vidieo?
Excellent! If you only have two strobes would you try and hide the second one behind them? Or maybe over them from atop?
I used that umbrella for one team picture and never again. Found it too specular and just harsh and ugly light. Went back to my Westcott 7ft shoot thru umbrella. I like it because it also seems to light up my background much better. I've never been a fan of those dark backgrounds. Have had too many schools complain about dark backgrounds in my area of the country. But its fun to see how others are doing sports teams.
+Peter Peterson Thanks for watching and using Westcott products. As you noted we have different versions of the umbrella to suit the creative view of the photographer and also the taste of their clients.
Great videos and very helpful, but there are still a fair number of questions. What watt seconds are those lights? I'm looking at buying some with 600 watt seconds and I wonder if that is enough. Also, would love to know what you do post processing. Many of your photos seem to have a fair amount of post processing. Are you using Capture One Pro to start off and then export to Photo Shop? Would love to see a video on your work folow. Thanks!
Oh, I see you have some work flow videos. You are really great! Thanks so much!
Great video, anyone know what wattage strobes the main & side lights are? Thanks.
thanks
It looks like you're using Einstein strobes. Is there any reason why you are using the CyberSync trigger instead of the Cyber Commander? Also, do you use a light meter?
Thanks.
What size are your silver reflectors that you are using! Great tips, very helpful!
Hello! These are 7' Silver Umbrellas: www.fjwestcott.com/7-foot-silver-umbrella
Matt What sense are you shooting with.
what lens did you use or like to use for these type of group/sports images?
+Mark Kline This one was shot with a Nikon 12-24mm 2.8. Thanks for watching!
Which light is used at this fotoshoot? FJ400? Thanks )
Hello. Just bought that umbrella after watching this video. What wattage strobe did you use? Thank you.
almeno 600W secondo me ;)
This dude shooting with a Nikon 🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯
Are you metering those side lights Matt? If so what were they metering at?
+Ritchie Deel If I had to take an educated guess (accounting for the angle of reflection) at what Matt's reading would be I would say F8. I usually set mine for about 1/2 stop under the camera setting (F8) but his edges look brighter to me.
+Ritchie Deel Hi Ritchie, I'm glad you asked that. I don’t normally meter anything. I prefer to eyeball it on the back of the camera until I have it the way I want it to look. Because I have the long throw reflectors on the edge lights I know the output will be higher and more harsh than the parabolic I am using when shooting teams. So, I normally set all my lights to full power when using one main light (the parabolic). That way I know the edge lights will still show up and give me a good rim. If I am using two parabolics I then each of those lights down 1 stop because I will have a higher output with two of them. I do that so they won’t overpower the edge lights in the images. I hope that helps. Thanks for watching the video.
How would you change the settings if you want the background even darker?
shutter speed
Have the lights used in the video changed since the video was released?
Since this video has come out Matt has switched to our FJ400 Strobe for much of his work!
@@WestcottLighting What about the side lights?
Why dont you show the side lights on this video? What kind of side lights are they?
From the back of the closest one, they appear to be a Paul C. Buff light. Specifically an Einstein.
why wouldn't you shot this at 1/125 or 1/160 to open up the background a bit since the uniforms are black as well as some dark hair?
If you prefer a brightly lit gym as opposed to the dramatically dark gym like Matt prefers then there are several ways you could do this.
First of all, If you blend the tungsten ambient light their color temperature will be lower than the strobe light and the gym background will look orangish which some photographers don't like. I've seen a lot of guys shoot groups in the gym at 400 iso at 1/30 or slower @ f/5.6-8 to blend the gym lights in to the shot. Newer digital cameras with higher dynamic range will pick up the ambient light with better sensitivity than old cameras of 15-20 years ago with more contrasty sensor performance.
Alternatively you could get tungsten gels and place them over all your strobes and then take a picture of a grey or white card and to correct white balance in post. This way you could shoot at a higher iso and slower shutter speed to burn-in the ambient light without the unappealing orange cast.
Another method is to use two strobes as side lights like Matt has set up in this video but put small wide angle umbrellas(not parabolic) on them and angle them more facing each other and their light will spill on the back wall of the gym lighting it up as well as the subjects.