8 Portrait Photography Setups in UNDER 5 Minutes with Jeremy Saffer
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- Опубліковано 22 сер 2024
- It's common to only be given a few minutes to shoot portraits of celebrities, musicians, and other subjects. This video demonstrates how some planning, preparation, and having an assistant or two can yield multiple high-quality photographs from eight visually different setups all in under five minutes. Working this efficiently will definitely be noticed by these types of clients and subjects, and will often lead to getting hired again by them for future shoots.
The photographer in this video is Jeremy Saffer, who has been shooting portrait photography for over 20 years. He has photographed Johnny Depp, Metallica, and Slayer, to name a few. One of the keys to Jeremy's speed is using continuous LED lighting instead of strobes, and the Nanlite PavoTube II 30XR LED Tube Lights and the Forza 300B II Bi-Color Spotlight are some of the tools he relies on for mission-critical shoots like this one.
Notice how in setup #3 Jeremy asks his assistant change the PavoTube II 30X tube settings from 5600K to the Fire pixel effect. This happens almost instantly because the assistant controls the tubes wirelessly using the free NANLINK app from their smartphone. Also notice that most of the lights on set that can be run on batteries are running on batteries. Not having to worry about AC cables being dragged across the floor saves time and lets you move quicker. All of the lights Jeremy uses in this shoot have the ability to run on batteries.
Lights, modifiers, and accessories Jeremy used in this shoot:
PavoTube II 30XR LED Pixel Tubes - nanliteus.com/...
Nanlite Forza 300B II Bi-Color LED Spotlight - nanliteus.com/...
Nanlite Para 90 Quick-Open Softbox - nanliteus.com/...
The mount Jeremy uses to attach the PavoTube II 30XR’s to the stands - nanliteus.com/...
Nanlite Forza 60C (the light that created the circular red background) - nanliteus.com/...
Learn more about Jeremy Saffer here (taking one of his workshops is highly recommended):
jeremysaffer.com/
If you’re curious about the band that was photographed in this video, you can check them out here:
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Very special thanks to the band featured:
Deadlands ( / @deadlandsbandny )
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Photo Crew:
Photographer - Jeremy Saffer ( / jeremysaffer )
Assistants - Tara Leary ( / thetaraleary , Kate Monahan ( / kate_e_monahan , Madeleine Budd ( / madbudd )
Video Crew:
Director & Producer - Kelly Mena ( / kelly_mena )
Cinematographer - Ally Visuals ( / allyvisuals )
Production Coordinator - Talisa Velez ( / filmbytv_ )
Location - Uptown Shots ( @uptownshots1411 / uptownshots )
Special thanks to Saramonic for the audio (saramonicusa.com/)
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So much fun getting to see your process!! Thank you for giving us a peak inside your approach.
Awesome work as always! Great video!
Hey Jeremy, nice shoot. You might know my work. I was the official photographer for Guns N Roses and Motörhead for years and years. I too use Nanlite for my photography. But not the 300's I use 500's and 720b's. So my question is, what settings are you on when shooting with a 300? Are you shooting high iso? I usually like to be around shutter 200-250th and f4-5.6 and can't get enough light out of a 300 unless I cranked iso way up. Once again, great looking shoot.
@@RobertJohnPhotography For me, the 500s and 700s are just too heavy/too much to bring around while traveling. I am rarely ever using the 300 at 100% due to balancing with say... tubes in the back/sides. So tubes at 100% are akin to the 300 anywhere between 15-40% depending on the set up. I am not shooting iso 100, im more around 400-800 (never above 800) 5.6-8 at a 100th or above, I do have IS both in lens and in body with the Leica which helps shooting a little slower with no movement/blur. but in terms of cobs, I just dont need the 500-720 power in most situations because the subject cant handle lights that bright to begin with, and due to balancing with other lighting, im never even hitting the 300 at 100% in most situations anyway. though I have used the bigger lights in some lighting situations for sure, its few and far between.
@@jeremysaffer Thanks for the reply. I'm using the older 300b's and also run grids often which cuts 1 1/2 stop of light. I hear the 300BII are about 20-30 percent brighter. I never run the 500's or 720B at full power. As far as travel. I come from old days of traveling with heavy strobe packs and heads along with no rolling bags back then😂 I also have dual IS I shoot Panasonic S1H so in camera and one of my lens. Like you I'm at 400-800 but never below 200th when shooting people. So if people are moving you get no motion blur at 100th of a second?
Wow! That was incredible.. I loved seeing how fast Jeremy could create such diverse, creative shots using Nanlite lighting. AMAZING work!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Ok I never thought about smoke plus orange light making fire!