I led a workshop on photo and video lighting alongside the Kingdom Creatives Conference. I love talking about why I light and how to craft images. I find that the separator is not being able to create a good image but to create a good image 10,000 times under different circumstances. I always stress studying and practice and workshops are a good way to do so. I talked about 3 main ideas during the workshop: Soft light vs.hard light , what motivated light and shaping tools.
Hard light Vs. Soft Light
A hard light source is a source with a narrow beam angle, think of this as a flashlight or a strobe with a reflector. A soft light source has a wider beam, think cloudy day. Though I almost always create soft light I prefer to used hard light…Why? Hard light can be modified to to be soft but softlight cannot be hard…When in doubt use hard light.
2. Motivated lighting
when lighting a subject always ask yourself these questions:
What story do I want to tell?
Why am I using these lights?
do they add or subtract from the vision?
I tend to have a preference of lighting I want to used but It doesn’t always make sense, these questions keep me on my toes.
3. Shaping Tools
Softbox
Beauty Dish
Parabolic Umbrella
Your homework is to look these up and see the difference…GO! 😊
Special shoutout to my good friend Gabby for being our amazing model 😊
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IMAGES FROM THE CLASS
