Comments on: Eos Discovery Roundup 1/3 – portrait tips and tricks

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By: admin

admin — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 09:31:07 +0000

@Fido: One of the most important feature of studio lights to me is not how much power they have but how low can you dial it down. I couldn’t have dialed the broncolor down enough if I had shot with the actual flash. I used just the pilot light that gave me plenty of light at wide apertures and doesn’t limit my shutterspeed to the flash sync speed. You can also use an ND-filter on your lens (or flash) to reduce the amount of light. If you have a polariser lying around, it can do the trick to because it eats up 2-3 stops.

By: fido

fido — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 06:37:32 +0000

hi bert. may I know how did you achieve the shallow depth of field in those studio portraits. Ive always wanted to achieve that but shooting at 1.4 and with the flash, the image turns out over expose.

By: Alvaro

Alvaro — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 12:02:40 +0000

This is great Bert, simple tips but with the examples they just glow
Almost as good as being on the workshop, thanks!

By: admin

admin — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 22:31:38 +0000

Thx all

@Phil: I’ll take you up on those beers one day

@Barak: Rembrandt and I used to date these two hot sisters, that’s how we met

@Fred: thx, I’m happy it was understandable

@Suffolk Wedding Photographer @ Pepin: That’s kind of what I understood under Rembrandt lighting too. I was a bit hesitated to mention it because on the net there are so many wrong definitions of it.

By: pepin

pepin — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 04:28:19 +0000

Hi Bert!

I wish I could attend the workshop.. it’s only that I live thousands of miles away.

If I’m not mistaken, the inverted triangle lighting is called Rembrant lighting.. then just many variations came from it.

By: Jahangir Behzadpour

Jahangir Behzadpour — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 17:21:11 +0000

Many Thanks Bert ! I didn’t know about trianglr light on the face at all .
I willing to see more in your next post .

By: Tomasz G.

Tomasz G. — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 19:51:25 +0000

Bert,
Thank you for this tutorial. I’m a big fan of your photography.

By: Suffolk Wedding Photography

Suffolk Wedding Photography — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 10:21:56 +0000

Nice article, I like the way you controlled the light ratios for dramatic portraits.

Creating the light pattern with the triangle of light is also referred to Rembrant lighting after the painter. I read a book by Monti Zucker a while back and in America they call it something like loopback lighting – I think because the shadow from the nose loops back and meets to the shadow side of the face.

By: Frederic

Frederic — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 21:05:46 +0000

Bert,

I attended saturday morning presentation and it was really interresting.
There was no problem with your french, it was perfectly understandable.