Shooting beauty with Clam Shell lighting
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- Опубліковано 24 сер 2024
- Clamshell is one of Peter's favourite lights for creating beauty portraits, and can be done in a number of ways. In this video Peter shows you how he sets this lighting up using two soft boxes, and also how to create his halo effect without editing!
Model: Ana
Instagram: @hristenko_anna
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Lighting: Octabox, Strip Softbox + Profoto D2
Camera model: Hasselblad H6D-50c
Lens: Hasselblad 100mm/150mm
Shutter-speed: 1/160
Aperture: f/8
Iso: 100
Filmed on:
Sony A7c with Zeiss Batis 18mm on a DJI Ronin-CS Gimbal
Sony a7S iii with Sony 16mm - 35mm
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The RAW software Peter is using: Phocus www.hasselblad...
Can process RAWs through this program with any camera on a Mac, but you will not be able to tether or use certain sliders. Alternatively, he recommends CaptureOne (not Lightroom)
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Building light step by step...systematic and useful as always. Technically, relatively simply light set up, but so creative with fine adjustments that make big difference. Thank you for this video Peter!
Glad you liked it, thank you
Thats what I really like about this channel. Not showing the end result but the way how to achieve it. Thanks Peter
Thank you
It was clear that Anna knew the shots were exceptional. We got to see them being zeroed in upon, by someone who really wanted them to be excellent. Thanks for letting me see the process.
Well said! thank you
I had a photo studio manager once that was an old school photo club photographer. He demanded to see the histogram for images. If the histogram wasn't "right" he would get upset. I told him once that a histogram had never either won an award or signed my check. Maybe it was a bit snarky of me but after that we came to agreement to not agree. I remember once he let me to take over a class on studio portrait lighting. He pulled me out of the room and reprimanded me when he came in to hear me explain how to just "move the lights" to increase or decrease the power of the lights. For him, the numbers all had to be repeatable. Thank you for proving the point that it's not about the numbers but about achieving correct exposure that is more important. Much love from the USA!
Wow thanks Ken, if I wanted to study numbers I would've been a mathematician
The sound of that Hasselblad..its addicting!!
I know right and now they don't make them any more :)
Wow, you are a photographic genius, Sir!
Anna is A Beautiful model!
Well done, Sir!
Thank you so much 👍
Peter. Love to watch you work. Great video.
Thanks 👍
"Lighting by Look, not by Numbers." I love it. 👍
Glad you like it!
WOW, beautifull! I love it!!
Thank you! 😊
Love your work, Mr. Coulson. Thanks for sharing!
Thanks for watching
Ana is a truly beautiful model!
Great video, Peter. Your explanations of the techniques make it such an enjoyable way to learn
Glad you enjoyed it
even though im subscribed i STILL sometimes dont see the new videos. obviously this one is only new to me, being a year old...
i got some of the BEST IMAGES from your workshop in chicago (2022) when we shot clamshell with Laura.
youre definitely one of the best instructors!
Thanks so much so happy you enjoyed the workshop
Amazing the difference it makes when you just make the slightest adjustments to the lights.... this was a great video. Thank you :)
Thanks for watching!
@@PeterCoulsonPhotographer No problems at all :)
Awesome tutorial. Thanks for sharing it with your subscribers. And I really like that you explain your llight set-up step by step.
Cheers
Glad it was helpful!
I did not recognize Ana with the red hair. A great look by the way. IMHO that made a powerful transformation right off the bat.
16:22 I am in awe of the images you created with Ana. "Two completely different shots". Nasty/harsh vs pretty/softer. And you say it comes down to individual taste. My answer is: yes, to both.
Post script: so strange seeing a quiet Bec in the three year old live stream. Thank you for including that link at the end. You both have great chemistry these days. Much appreciated the old clip for comparison. Please be healthy and keep up the good work.
Thanks heaps Erik
Ohhh...the beautiful eyes and lovely complexion and skin tones of the beautiful Anna. She is always a magical shoot of beauty worth and love of the beautiful woman she is. Great shoot Anna and Peter as you always give great tips on creating so beautifully stunning and gorgeous shoots with the beautiful Anna and her lovely face and those beautiful eyes. Keep safe Anna and Peter and again for a beautiful shoot as this one was full of great info and well as the beauty of the lovely Anna. Ohh...and lets not forget Bec as hope you keep safe and are doing well too as look like maybe you we're not feeling well.
Thanks Steve
Another really helpful video. Love the fact you don't go too techy about numbers like some togs do. Thanks again.
Glad to help, thanks Michael
True Master of the game
Thank you
Beautiful!!! Thank you. Cheers!!!
Thank you too!
Great video and you’re always an inspiration…I’ll be doing clamshell lighting next!👍🏼
Awesome! Thank you!
@@PeterCoulsonPhotographer no, thank you sir!
wow, the last one, wonderful . . you are good you
Great
Well another proof that Colour editing and B/W editing is so totally different.
When I edit in post and go from colour to B/W I reset the image completely back to SOOC and start all over again.
Loved the video, thanks for sharing, kudos to the girl(s)
Thanks for sharing!
Thank you! Nice setup!
Love your videos...
Thank you!
Very helpful, thank you for sharing it with us, I like when you talk about having the light a little off center.
Glad it was helpful!
Many thanks for sharing this session. I know you are currently busy with on-site workshops and I am fully aware of the effort of producing these videos. @Bec: Many thanks once again for supporting Peter and Ana, and for opening and closing the session; many thanks for following him with your video camera; if this is one of your favorite light configurations, it will be also mine; you have mentioned a past clam shell live session, I will look for it and I will watch it; I remember an incident with the meter, it was very funny to see Peter, as the Artist, measuring distances; BTW: when you all have less pressure of work, don’t forget that live sessions are always welcome because I like the way in-flight questions are answered, but I am fully aware they require availability. @Ana: Many thanks for posing for Peter in t hese educational sessions; since I recently knew about your singing talent, I can see musical notes flowing from your gaze and your hair like the guitar strings (I have a lot of imagination), and I know your mind is full of music, and this dignifies you and makes you a great woman; I like when you smile at 11:58 and 16:04; the best picture is at 16:58 where your gaze seems to look beyond, trespassing barriers, believing there is still something it is worth living for. @Peter: Many thanks for this lesson where light from top and down should properly configured; I like a lot the phrases: “… two lights working as one …”, “… I’m lighting by look, I’am not lighting by numbers…”, “… to breathe out and shot at the end of the breath… a more relaxed in the face…”, “… to go crazy inside their head…”; I like a lot the top of the black dress that the Model is wearing, I have similar ones in some of your recent photographs and I will look for something similar if I ever have the chance; I have recently noticed how sensitive my eyes are to the B/W contrast, in the sense that my eyes like to glance around the borders of the clothes in the same way they like to do it with the horizon line over the water when I look at the sea or at the ocean.
fascinating, the flash doesn't always record on the video
the video was shot at 50 frames per second and the flash goes of at 2000th of a second
@@PeterCoulsonPhotographer love the look though, never would have imagined how you arrived the final image, just from image alone.
Your lighting is always amazing! We host meetups at our studio and I always try to introduce at least one different lighting setup. The photographers that come and shoot always hate it and ask me to change it to where it's simply flat lighting. They have no idea what they're missing out on and that's the reason that all of their work looks the same. I've since given up and just give them dull flat light.
sounds annoying
I always love your content. Am I strange for liking the uplighting without the top octa? I've seen this work beautifully for Fashion, at least to me. Great content, as usual, guys.
Not at all Thanks
Peter, thanks for the look behind the glass. Much appreciated to viewing the process. That said, I know my comment is going to run a bit counter to the majority of comments, but I hope you'll hear me out. As a beginner with lighting and photographing subjects, I can appreciate like any good recipe, there is always those that go by number and those that season to taste. I can appreciate your creative process and the wonderful end results. Imagine, for a moment though, that you're in my world and I'm a cardiothoracic surgeon and you need open heart surgery. Two issues here. 1. If I tell you I'm just going to open your chest and improvise as we go - it doesn't leave you feeling comfortable - most likely. 2. If you son is a student, and he watches me work, but I give little into the way I'm thinking as I progress though the surgery and the whys of what I'm doing what I'm doing, he likely will not learn nearly as much from the experience. As a beginner, hearing the ignore numbers and just paint / cook by feel is either empowering or daunting. True, in the mirrorless world, one almost can paint by feel without knowing numbers (including f/stop, aperture, or ISO) at all. That said, a starting point is always nice and then an explanation for beginners on why you choose what you do (and what you see in the look you like), is very helpful and insightful. I would hope this comment would at least make you consider more a bit more insight into the decision making along the way (i.e. what your artistic eye is seeing and going for) and how you plan to achieve that or the options you have. As you say, the numbers are less important, but having a starting point and hearing the process as it evolves, would be "oh so helpful". Thanks again. Appreciate the time and consideration in advance.
I found people who have a technical or engineer type weight of thinking is like classical music everything has to be in its place, but I'm much more like jazz and blues where it's all about feel and no rules. I call myself an artist, not a photographer.
@@PeterCoulsonPhotographer Understood, just FYI - my Dad got his PhD from Columbia University in Jazz and played/wrote/and arranged for Duke Ellington, Sy Oliver, Count Basie, Oscar Peterson, Billy Taylor and many more. I was at many of those rehearsals.
That's amazing, I would of loved to be there
😍🤩👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Expetacular maravilhoso 📷🇧🇷
Good stuff brother, I never did understand why people want to know settings and measurements. Like they want to re do the shot to the exact measurements. But yet ignore everything else taught after that
:) Thanks
Bec ❤️
cool
Peter can you remind me of what you have highlight warning on for Phocus.and what we might use for Capture One highlight alert
shadows 15 highlights 245
Good evening Peter, your light is beautiful and sensational, but let me ask you why some photographers use this scheme but with speeds below 125, like 60 but with f8 or 16 in the studio, would it be to enhance the effect of bounced light? bounced light in the studio? hugs from Brazil my friend.
It brings more ambient light into the shadows
@@PeterCoulsonPhotographer thank you my friend!!
Amazing video as always. I love watching light get built. But I do have one tech question for you, tho it is simple. I see you are using the new MacBook Pro. When you tether to the computer are you plugged in via Thunderbolt connection or USB-C attached to a dongle?
So what the clam shell does is eleminating the shadows?
Yes sortof :)
Hi Peter, Do you have a BW film/ developer combo that gives the down curve look when you are shooting film?
I had a friend who used to develop my film and years she used to get a similar look but I'm not sure how he did it
Hi Peter, would you also be able to get a proper clamshell result with an overhead big octa and a big reflector below (like on a coffee table)?
It's not really clamshell lighting when you use a reflector but I use Octa above white bounce board below all the time
@@PeterCoulsonPhotographer fair point... Need another light stand to get that low then. And possibly a higher ceiling... (':
As always a great video very informative my question was is that a strip light or a half dome? Looks bigger than a strip!
Thanks, The bottom light was stronger than the top light
Oh....to be able to afford a Hasselblad Camera. My brain is just calculating the amount of money that is represented in this video.
You can buy Hasselblad cameras on eBay from $1500
Who is this new face in Peter's stable of models? Guess I'll have to watch the video...
It's Anna. She's been around for a little while now. She's awesome!
What is that the name of that lever adjustable boom arm?
Manfrotto Megaboom
Peter needs a walking meter!
What are the measurements please?
ua-cam.com/video/3lGcRG_wTxM/v-deo.html @3:58 I explain at that part in that video :)
Call 991 Peter is allergic to color! 😄
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