Hello From French Riviera, Thank you so much for this amazing tutorial. I learnt more in one hour than years with other tuto. Great fan of your dynamism and passionate way to teach. Thanks a lot !
Wow! Too bad, I haven't seen your videos before Joe. You really are a good teacher and sort of photographer i respect. Thank you very much for your taking your time to teach these. In fact, I'm not a pro photographer, just a enthusiast and has been learning about portrait photography- specially artistic things. I will watch all your episodes. World needs more people like you!!! :) Thanks again Joe!
Thanks for this episode. As a viewer from the Netherlands I can't interact with the show because of the time defference. This episode made me look with another eye to modifiers and it is pushing me to get to work with the shoot-through umbrella on the speedlight. Can't wait to watch the next episode on youtube .
Best ever explanation of light modifier differences on UA-cam! Bravo! For years now, I have suckered in buying latest or different shape light modifiers, however I could never tell differences in photos, I have always been very disappointed. I might add that room shape, furniture, carpets, colors have a great effect on how light travels and is reflected. Thank you for taking time sharing your knowledge and expertise.
Hi Joe, I just watched this video from start to finish…what a breath of fresh air you bring to the sea of photography UA-cam videos that I have seen! I’m a newer photography enthusiast trying to learn and understand the fundamentals and improve my skills. I just subscribed and I greatly appreciate what you bring to us on UA-cam!
Joe this video on lighting modifiers has to be one of the best that i have seen on UA-cam for years Although i sometimes question some of your videos, but I trust you when it comes to anything associated with lighting what one needs and does not need to achieve great results . The quality that everyone can produce without paying mega bucks for the equipment is true. The old adage is very true practice makes perfect. Thank you Joe for a very informative and enjoyable video.
Hey Joe! Watching the replay from Pasadena, MD. This and the Tog Chat podcast have reignited my passion for shooting with people. Thanks and keep up the awesome work!
Hi from the UK. I love the "pragmatism" of your videos. My takeaway from this video is that using a reflective umbrella isn't a hazard for your subject because the shaft doesn't have to be right in-their-face. I have a shoot-through, reflective white and reflective silver umbrella (all at 39 inches) which I presently use with a speedlite. On holidays the only modifier I take with me is a 32 inch 5-in-one circular reflector. Muting harsh shadows is the name of the game there. Thanks for the great content and for keeping-it-real.
Late to this discussion, but appreciate the time and effort you put into this discussion (and the reason for it). Finally, given the end-of-year-prices, I purchased my first strobe and shoot-through umbrella. The journey begins. Next up: Stand with wheels and an appropriately named Mannequin "Elena" (Greek Origin a.k.a. "Shining Light"). Thanks for this series of videos to reassure me that one light and one modifier is enough for now! ;-)
I learned from you years ago about light by a video you did lighting an egg. What you do is very good. I did not like you for a long time but what I did was learn from you. And learned I did. I learned shooting on a white background or softbox behind the subject was my and still is my best work. I learned from you because you teach, you do not instruct. Thank you very much for this vid.
Thanks Joe. Loved the presentation. You mentioned you would provide a link to the mannequin. Could you add that to your notes. I would appreciate that.
Looking forward to part 2. Funny, been following you since 2016 and it felt like I knew what you were going to say in your opening statements. Yeah, a little bummed that you were not going to do a DIY. How about a DIY umbrella challenge and have people post their make and results on your FB? Modifier and rain umbrella all in one. LOL
Wow! So happy to see you using Set.a.light.3D in your videos. Sorry to say I already used Lindsay Adler's link to make my purchase several months ago or I would absolutely use yours. As a new slowly-creating-a-home-studio shooter I use the software to record what I try in the studio and what I want to try in the studio. This way the computer becomes my memory on what I tried and what worked. I'm getting by in the program, not an experienced user yet so your using it helps me understand your points but also shows me how to better use the software. Thank you. And thanks for this particular video, I'll be here next week! ⭐x5
On point Joe! This has been a pet peeve of mine for years, and no-one gets it. I chose the mods I do for other reasons - I like the classic Hollywood look done with basically hard lights (beauty dish a.k.a. pan and direct flash for most others), and the 17th century look done with window lights (medium - large rectangular soft box). But those are specific stylistic choices that have little to do with the kinds of issues you are bringing up. And you might notice that both of those have one thing in common: chiaroscuro. But that's off the point, which you did well to stick to.
As always thank you for your commentry. I really appreciate your insight and knowledge. You keep on saying you can create the same light with an umbrella as with an expensive beauty dish, now I really understand what you mean. Next week in your discussion can you please touch breifly on the difference on GoBos which I remember your DIY discussion on and grids. Why you prefer gobos over grids as well? Is it obvious I dont understand the difference? Thank you as always. Paul
My pleasure Paul Sutton! Thank you for the kind words! I will touch on Gobos - but the short answer is Gobo (Go Between) is usually meant to create some shadow or pattern - grids are designed to focus the light coming from a modifier and slow the spread.
J30 Wild&Nature that depends on if and what type of modifier you are using and what you are trying to accomplish. Anyone that answers your question without asking you more questions - just likes to hear themselves talk - there are too many variables that you haven't provided.
I hadn't changed modifiers in over 15 years. But when I picked up a battery-operated strobe and needed new speedrings/mounts, I instead got a new quick setup octabox. SO much easier to setup in the field than the old rod-based softboxes. Light quality on people is almost identical, with the catchlight changing shape from rectangular to octagonal, but I don't miss the setup and teardown hassles. Sometimes the manufacturers make a change worth investigating. That said, umbrellas are hard to beat for convenience and flexibility! *Side-effects for people, which I mostly photograph. But shiny stuff relies on those reflections, and it's not a side-effect there. (Product photography is a frequently fun, usually challenging, pain in the neck. :) ) (Don't hate me-I also like grids. :)
Joe, please explain your comment @23.30 about 90mm equivalent for a 45 mm lens at a micro 4/3. I'm assuming your reference is like my Nikon DX cropped sensor which is a 1.5 equivalence, so a 45 mm fixed lens for me would be 45 x 1.5 = 68± mm on a full sensor scale. But for your camera, would you calculate as 45 x 4/3 = 60 mm? So I'm not understanding what you mean by micro 4/3. Have you added a micro lens to your 45 mm lens? Or what? Would appreciate your help, thank you.
My big take-away from this is the use of a little secondary reflected light can have far more effect on the untimate "softness" of the image then the choice of the primary light modifier.
Bubba Jones - your are not wrong - but you are not right. The challenge with lighting is that there is no one size fits all answer. The only :correctness" is based on the physics of the inverse square law. Everything else is subjective and there many ways to achieve a similar outcome with different combinations of lights, modifiers and reflectors. But for the sake of someone learning lighting - learning with one light and a simple modifier - then add a reflector and master those tools... from that point forward you will spend less money and have more control over your lighting.
Excellent Joe. A few decades worth of experience presented in an hour.
Thank you SuperRockinRobert! I appreciate the kind words and support!
Hello From French Riviera, Thank you so much for this amazing tutorial. I learnt more in one hour than years with other tuto. Great fan of your dynamism and passionate way to teach. Thanks a lot !
Wow! Too bad, I haven't seen your videos before Joe. You really are a good teacher and sort of photographer i respect. Thank you very much for your taking your time to teach these. In fact, I'm not a pro photographer, just a enthusiast and has been learning about portrait photography- specially artistic things. I will watch all your episodes. World needs more people like you!!! :) Thanks again Joe!
Thanks for this episode.
As a viewer from the Netherlands I can't interact with the show because of the time defference.
This episode made me look with another eye to modifiers and it is pushing me to get to work with the shoot-through umbrella on the speedlight.
Can't wait to watch the next episode on youtube .
Thank you Joep Meijer! I appreciate the comment.
Best ever explanation of light modifier differences on UA-cam! Bravo! For years now, I have suckered in buying latest or different shape light modifiers, however I could never tell differences in photos, I have always been very disappointed. I might add that room shape, furniture, carpets, colors have a great effect on how light travels and is reflected. Thank you for taking time sharing your knowledge and expertise.
Hello Joe. Watching from Michigan. Appreciate all that you do for photographers. Looking forward to next week.
Thank you Jason45G! I really appreciate the kind words!
Hi Joe, I just watched this video from start to finish…what a breath of fresh air you bring to the sea of photography UA-cam videos that I have seen! I’m a newer photography enthusiast trying to learn and understand the fundamentals and improve my skills. I just subscribed and I greatly appreciate what you bring to us on UA-cam!
Thank you Doug Palmer! I really appreciate the kind words!
Hi Joe, just want to say I enjoyed your teaching videos very much. You explained them very well and very easy to understand. Thank you!!
Thank you David Diep! I appreciate the kind words and support!
Joe this video on lighting modifiers has to be one of the best that i have seen on UA-cam for years Although i sometimes question some of your videos, but I trust you when it comes to anything associated with lighting what one needs and does not need to achieve great results . The quality that everyone can produce without paying mega bucks for the equipment is true. The old adage is very true practice makes perfect. Thank you Joe for a very informative and enjoyable video.
Honest, knowledgeable info on lighting. Thank you!
Hey Joe! Watching the replay from Pasadena, MD. This and the Tog Chat podcast have reignited my passion for shooting with people. Thanks and keep up the awesome work!
Fantastic lesson, Joe!
Hi from the UK. I love the "pragmatism" of your videos. My takeaway from this video is that using a reflective umbrella isn't a hazard for your subject because the shaft doesn't have to be right in-their-face. I have a shoot-through, reflective white and reflective silver umbrella (all at 39 inches) which I presently use with a speedlite. On holidays the only modifier I take with me is a 32 inch 5-in-one circular reflector. Muting harsh shadows is the name of the game there. Thanks for the great content and for keeping-it-real.
Thanks Joe….I always learn from your presentations!
Glad you enjoyed it Nick D'Ermilio! Thanks for the kind words!
Great work Joe. You still put out great work sir.
Thank you James Lewis! I appreciate the kind words and support!
Excellent tutorial debunking so much you tube misinformation keep it up
Late to this discussion, but appreciate the time and effort you put into this discussion (and the reason for it). Finally, given the end-of-year-prices, I purchased my first strobe and shoot-through umbrella. The journey begins. Next up: Stand with wheels and an appropriately named Mannequin "Elena" (Greek Origin a.k.a. "Shining Light"). Thanks for this series of videos to reassure me that one light and one modifier is enough for now! ;-)
Great simple explanations. Thanks.
My pleasure paTTTeo! I appreciate the kind words
Great video! Love your honesty! 👍😉
Excellent video Joe. Look forward to next week’s
Brilliant insight. Thanks for sharing
I learned from you years ago about light by a video you did lighting an egg. What you do is very good. I did not like you for a long time but what I did was learn from you. And learned I did. I learned shooting on a white background or softbox behind the subject was my and still is my best work. I learned from you because you teach, you do not instruct. Thank you very much for this vid.
cant wait for second part of this topic.. thanks joe and the part of light inverse law helped me to understand more about using the lights
Thanks Joe. Loved the presentation. You mentioned you would provide a link to the mannequin. Could you add that to your notes. I would appreciate that.
Thank you Vic Peralta! I appreciate the comment. Here is the mannequin link: amzn.to/3hLTo6g
Missed this live. Watching it now.
Thx, Joe!
Looking forward to part 2. Funny, been following you since 2016 and it felt like I knew what you were going to say in your opening statements. Yeah, a little bummed that you were not going to do a DIY. How about a DIY umbrella challenge and have people post their make and results on your FB? Modifier and rain umbrella all in one. LOL
LOL, Glad you enjoyed it Gary Geddes! I appreciate the comment!
Wow! So happy to see you using Set.a.light.3D in your videos. Sorry to say I already used Lindsay Adler's link to make my purchase several months ago or I would absolutely use yours. As a new slowly-creating-a-home-studio shooter I use the software to record what I try in the studio and what I want to try in the studio. This way the computer becomes my memory on what I tried and what worked. I'm getting by in the program, not an experienced user yet so your using it helps me understand your points but also shows me how to better use the software. Thank you. And thanks for this particular video, I'll be here next week! ⭐x5
Thank you for video!
My pleasure Vasiliy Ivanishvili! Thanks for commenting!
On point Joe! This has been a pet peeve of mine for years, and no-one gets it. I chose the mods I do for other reasons - I like the classic Hollywood look done with basically hard lights (beauty dish a.k.a. pan and direct flash for most others), and the 17th century look done with window lights (medium - large rectangular soft box). But those are specific stylistic choices that have little to do with the kinds of issues you are bringing up. And you might notice that both of those have one thing in common: chiaroscuro. But that's off the point, which you did well to stick to.
As always thank you for your commentry. I really appreciate your insight and knowledge. You keep on saying you can create the same light with an umbrella as with an expensive beauty dish, now I really understand what you mean.
Next week in your discussion can you please touch breifly on the difference on GoBos which I remember your DIY discussion on and grids. Why you prefer gobos over grids as well? Is it obvious I dont understand the difference?
Thank you as always.
Paul
My pleasure Paul Sutton! Thank you for the kind words! I will touch on Gobos - but the short answer is Gobo (Go Between) is usually meant to create some shadow or pattern - grids are designed to focus the light coming from a modifier and slow the spread.
Hello. Mr Joe I have a ad200pro which one i will use daylight shooting fresnel or bare bulb?
J30 Wild&Nature that depends on if and what type of modifier you are using and what you are trying to accomplish. Anyone that answers your question without asking you more questions - just likes to hear themselves talk - there are too many variables that you haven't provided.
@@theJoeEdelman Thank you.
I hadn't changed modifiers in over 15 years. But when I picked up a battery-operated strobe and needed new speedrings/mounts, I instead got a new quick setup octabox. SO much easier to setup in the field than the old rod-based softboxes. Light quality on people is almost identical, with the catchlight changing shape from rectangular to octagonal, but I don't miss the setup and teardown hassles. Sometimes the manufacturers make a change worth investigating.
That said, umbrellas are hard to beat for convenience and flexibility!
*Side-effects for people, which I mostly photograph. But shiny stuff relies on those reflections, and it's not a side-effect there. (Product photography is a frequently fun, usually challenging, pain in the neck. :) )
(Don't hate me-I also like grids. :)
Joe, please explain your comment @23.30 about 90mm equivalent for a 45 mm lens at a micro 4/3. I'm assuming your reference is like my Nikon DX cropped sensor which is a 1.5 equivalence, so a 45 mm fixed lens for me would be 45 x 1.5 = 68± mm on a full sensor scale. But for your camera, would you calculate as 45 x 4/3 = 60 mm? So I'm not understanding what you mean by micro 4/3. Have you added a micro lens to your 45 mm lens? Or what? Would appreciate your help, thank you.
Micro 4/3's crop factor is 2x.
@@ahsanjaved3547 Thanks for your help.
My big take-away from this is the use of a little secondary reflected light can have far more effect on the untimate "softness" of the image then the choice of the primary light modifier.
Bubba Jones - your are not wrong - but you are not right. The challenge with lighting is that there is no one size fits all answer. The only :correctness" is based on the physics of the inverse square law. Everything else is subjective and there many ways to achieve a similar outcome with different combinations of lights, modifiers and reflectors. But for the sake of someone learning lighting - learning with one light and a simple modifier - then add a reflector and master those tools... from that point forward you will spend less money and have more control over your lighting.
John from Vegas.
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