Front light
Added 2024-01-12 15:00:02 +0000 UTCI did a private workshop with a UK photographer who brought D Genvievre as a model. This set was shot as a request to match some light from some reference images.
I snapped a couple of iPhone pics so you can see the setup.
It's shot with a 57" Zeppelin, but it could be a softbox, silver umbrella, or a white umbrella, Which all would change the look slightly (light wise silver umbrella would be harder with brighter specular highlights and more pronounced shadow outline - and shadows on the background.)
The key here is the flags on the side of the lamp, which create both the darker background and the light falloff (shadow outline) on the sides of the model.
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Yep...saving money on not buying the parabolic when i have the 2 4x8 vflats...actually now i also have a folding one too...thanks..
Greg Nott
2024-01-18 17:27:29 +0000 UTCIf it’s a matte white it’s mostly a question of the amount of spill light: a deeper umbrella will spill less light. For silver, a parabolic variant will transmit the light in a fairly narrow “beam,” so the spread of light will be lesser than a flatter umbrella that will scatter light over a larger area. A matte silver will be less “beamy” than gloss silver. Hope this makes sense. And that said, for silver umbrellas, it’s not irrelevant whether the light is at the focal point, IE, the optional distance from the umbrella. The easiest way to ascertain that is to look from the model's perspective while trying different umbrella spoke distances or turn off all other light and observe where the main amount of light strikes when you alter the distance.
Thomas
2024-01-14 21:19:49 +0000 UTCThomas. What is the difference between a normal shaped umbrella and the parabolic?
Greg Nott
2024-01-12 19:07:45 +0000 UTC
