Your content is just brilliant. You can't imagine how much do you inspire me. Where I live (in Greece) there is no source which can help me improve my skills in photography. So i wanted to thank you. 🤗
I love your channel friend, I'm sure I'm going to get good ideas for it. The false window is an excellent idea. The fruit bowl was perfect with that light. I'm staying on your channel. 374 photos and thank you very much for sharing.
I had a set up, shooting some wine, using a special DIY background I painted.. it was good but I wanted to add something, but no other prop to distract. Saw this video and I jumped on this. Literally, found a piece of plywood, power drill, power jigsaw, paint.. made my own in about an hour. Easy peasy. Completely added to the photo, without adding extra props. Thanks for the inspiration 👍
I was looking for something like this for a project and didn't even know it existed! Can you do a video on how to create faux sunshine lighting? I want to shoot very warm, cozy, inviting food photos and videos but my apartment doesn't have good natural light so I want to know if I can mimic that without the time and place restraint? Thanks!
I really thought about how to get the window effect and this is really helping a lot to see and know how to achieve the concept. Super beautiful scene 🔥🔥🔥
Generally they're interchangeable terms in our world. In some industries gobos are more specifically items placed physically on the light to project interesting lighting and shadow patterns. But, for our purposes, on set if you call a flag or a cuculoris a gobo people will know what you're talking about.
It's a great final image, but you can tell that it's not real sunlight because the shadows of the horizontal cucoloris members are not quite parallel, as they would be with sunlight. I wonder if anyone makes an adjustable cucoloris so you could move the window elements out of parallel to compensate for the perspective effect and get parallel shadows. Having a bigger studio and moving the light further away would get the shadows closer to parallel, but that's probably much more expensive.
In order to get this technique to work affectively, you need to use a pinpoint light source. Even though the sun is massive, it’s so far away that it appears very small to us here on earth. Hence, the sun becomes effectively a very contrasty pinpoint light source on cloudless days. To mimic the effect of the sun in a studio, your light needs to be contrasty, direct and small in relationship to the subject. LED panels are similar to soft box lighting which spread the light minimizing shadows. The best results come from the smallest direct light source you own plus the distance you move the light from the cookie or window. The closer the light comes to the window the softer and less defined the shadows will become, conversely the further you take the light away from the window the more crisp the shadows will appear. You could create a pin point light with your LED panel by covering it with black paper blocking most of the light and only having light coming through a small hole in the paper. That would create a pinpoint light source, but that would also force you into shooting on a tripod with a very long exposure because the intensity of the light will be low. This may produce a crisper pin point light source for you. As long as everything in the scene is motionless and the tripod is also steady, then you can use any length exposure as is needed using the “Gobo” partially covering the led panel. I have used a single incandescent household bulb to create this effect using long several minute exposures. Hope that helps. Cheers.
Joanie, as a result of watching this, I went to www.Ericksonsurfaces and bought a small double background for still life. I have a nice setup from Wellmaking Bowens Flash Mount Snoot for Gobos to test out doing the window scene. Something certainly to play with and maybe save some money but thanks for the turn on to Erickson Surfaces, even though it might take a month to get it, LOL!
The yellow backdrop is so unique and beautiful! You are so good and amazing! 🧡
I love this creative part using the fake windows. The clothe makes a really good blend with the fruits.
Your content is just brilliant. You can't imagine how much do you inspire me. Where I live (in Greece) there is no source which can help me improve my skills in photography. So i wanted to thank you. 🤗
I love your channel friend, I'm sure I'm going to get good ideas for it. The false window is an excellent idea. The fruit bowl was perfect with that light. I'm staying on your channel. 374 photos and thank you very much for sharing.
The fruits look more real than real life.
The Photo is Super Amazing Joanie!👌🏻
Thank you Vince!!
Joanie your channel had helped me a lot. Thank you.
Happy to help!
Love the entire set It just gave the idea to create my own windows plus and outdoor background for an outdoor set.
Thank you for sharing the process; it has been really inspiring.
Beautiful image!!!
Makes me so happy the copper pitcher finally got his
fame moment, he played his part brilliantly!😊
I love the mood of this picture!!
I just love your channel so much. Haven’t been here in awhile and I just feel so good with the way you teach. Thanks for this. It was so helpful.
You are so welcome!
I think I just like saying cucaluris what a cool word. Great video
Me too!
That "wall" 😍😍😍
I'm so happy with how it turned out!
Thanks for sharing! Love the background!
Well done! Amazing work of light.
Wow what a great idea using the window!
Joanie, thank you for this valuable video!!!! This is so awesome! I can't wait to try this!
Always inspiring, innovative and concise.
Perfect video ma'am each and every details u explained nicely 👍
I had a set up, shooting some wine, using a special DIY background I painted.. it was good but I wanted to add something, but no other prop to distract. Saw this video and I jumped on this. Literally, found a piece of plywood, power drill, power jigsaw, paint.. made my own in about an hour. Easy peasy. Completely added to the photo, without adding extra props. Thanks for the inspiration 👍
Thanks for sharing and explaining how you do things. Also love how your video is presented as well.
As usual a work of art Joanie!💜
Espetacular, trabalho muito criativo...parabéns!
Thank you so much for the info and especially for the inspiration.
I was looking at your instagram post on my iPad, when my phone showed a notification for your video.
Nice to see the BTS.
Nice timing!!
Creatively inspiring!
My mind goes straight to a rustic pie on a windowsill! Would love to try this technique out!
It was really helpful ❤️
Thanks for sharing ✨
Gracias, muy buenos vídeo, bien estructurado. Bien explicados cada tema y tu voz muy adecuada. Y tu belleza es maravillosa.
Thanks for the tips! i will definitely give a try for our company's next product photoshoot :)
Wow.. Thanks for that great idea... Very useful video 👍😍😍
I was looking for something like this for a project and didn't even know it existed! Can you do a video on how to create faux sunshine lighting? I want to shoot very warm, cozy, inviting food photos and videos but my apartment doesn't have good natural light so I want to know if I can mimic that without the time and place restraint? Thanks!
Add to cart!🤗
Really good shot, my studio is nearing completion as well, I’m planning on still life images too!!
Gorgeous
Just so you know i've been watching all of your videos everyday! haha
I love all your tips there so helpful!
thank you for the ideas! You did a great job but you always do.
I really thought about how to get the window effect and this is really helping a lot to see and know how to achieve the concept. Super beautiful scene 🔥🔥🔥
LOVE this!! Great vid Joanie. Btw, what is the difference between this and a Gobo?
Generally they're interchangeable terms in our world. In some industries gobos are more specifically items placed physically on the light to project interesting lighting and shadow patterns. But, for our purposes, on set if you call a flag or a cuculoris a gobo people will know what you're talking about.
"This is the moment for that prop to shine!!!" LOL.....
Brilliant!
Awesome video. I make two windows with foam board. I will post it in IG next week. Hope all is well. Best Regards. Another learning experience
Thanks, you too!
Oooo, love that!
¡Excelente!, gracias.
Bringing indoors, indoors
Amazing
I really like your intro
It's a great final image, but you can tell that it's not real sunlight because the shadows of the horizontal cucoloris members are not quite parallel, as they would be with sunlight. I wonder if anyone makes an adjustable cucoloris so you could move the window elements out of parallel to compensate for the perspective effect and get parallel shadows.
Having a bigger studio and moving the light further away would get the shadows closer to parallel, but that's probably much more expensive.
If you move the light source further away from the cookie you'l get a more natural effect.
Can this technique work with an LED light panel or is it just not strong enough? I can’t seem to get it to work for me.
In order to get this technique to work affectively, you need to use a pinpoint light source. Even though the sun is massive, it’s so far away that it appears very small to us here on earth. Hence, the sun becomes effectively a very contrasty pinpoint light source on cloudless days. To mimic the effect of the sun in a studio, your light needs to be contrasty, direct and small in relationship to the subject. LED panels are similar to soft box lighting which spread the light minimizing shadows. The best results come from the smallest direct light source you own plus the distance you move the light from the cookie or window. The closer the light comes to the window the softer and less defined the shadows will become, conversely the further you take the light away from the window the more crisp the shadows will appear.
You could create a pin point light with your LED panel by covering it with black paper blocking most of the light and only having light coming through a small hole in the paper. That would create a pinpoint light source, but that would also force you into shooting on a tripod with a very long exposure because the intensity of the light will be low. This may produce a crisper pin point light source for you. As long as everything in the scene is motionless and the tripod is also steady, then you can use any length exposure as is needed using the “Gobo” partially covering the led panel. I have used a single incandescent household bulb to create this effect using long several minute exposures. Hope that helps. Cheers.
I’d bet a sit window would be pretty easy out of cardboard or foamcore...
Great info but could have have been done in a 5 minute video
Good note! Thx!
Joanie, as a result of watching this, I went to www.Ericksonsurfaces and bought a small double background for still life. I have a nice setup from Wellmaking Bowens Flash Mount Snoot for Gobos to test out doing the window scene. Something certainly to play with and maybe save some money but thanks for the turn on to Erickson Surfaces, even though it might take a month to get it, LOL!
I loved everything about this video! I was so intrigued! I will be putting what I learned to practice! Thank you!