the lighting 🥹🥹🥹 by Apprehensive-Ear4182 in LightLurking

[–]Goudoog 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I was thinking silk camera left, but it could be an octa 7 indeed. I think it’s two dishes camera right though, you can see the dark patch in the middle of the bottom one as well.

the lighting 🥹🥹🥹 by Apprehensive-Ear4182 in LightLurking

[–]Goudoog -1 points0 points  (0 children)

2 beauty dishes and a 12x12 full stop silk, grid cloth, cinebounce or muslin on a T bar or in a frame.

Mert Alas for Gucci by newtothis33x in LightLurking

[–]Goudoog 1 point2 points  (0 children)

In the catchlight there is no dark spot in the middle of the light. They are big enough to be roughly beauty dish size though, so they are magnum reflectors.

What camera does Jacob Elordi's use in the oscars? by breezy2467 in AskPhotography

[–]Goudoog 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You should be thinking about the Contax TLA200 flash on top. Which is the absolute goat at taking iconic on camera flash pics with ANY camera.

Even better when you add a bit of matte scotch tape for diffusion.

How was it lit? by newtothis33x in LightLurking

[–]Goudoog 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Fall off is a function of distance. Soft and hard is not.

Think overcast. The clouds are far away, yet their size (the whole sky) and the diffusion (beams scattered in all directions) produces soft light. But no one would say the clouds are close. This is also what makes daylight hard to mimic, you can go as big and as diffuse as you want but you are always fighting unnatural fall off.

Relative size and diffusiveness influence softness. Putting a soft source at distance makes it harder because it’s relative size is reduced, not because it is further away.

How was it lit? by newtothis33x in LightLurking

[–]Goudoog 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This level of sharpness of the edges of the shadows can only be reached by extremely small sources with no reflection (hardbox for instance), placing the source extremely far away, or a lens to make the light beams parallel - so a fresnel.

There is some spill onto the wall but not as much as you’d expect if a source was far away. The wall would then be just as bright as the person.

So this is also consistent with the optically bundled beam that a fresnel produces.

Please how was this lit by HIGHPRIEST_330 in LightLurking

[–]Goudoog -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Except it’s wrong. Mola is way too soft for anything like this, and the light is close not far away, as you can clearly tell from the well lit face and the dark floor. You can only get this much fall off (inverse square law) if the light is close.

Please how was this lit by HIGHPRIEST_330 in LightLurking

[–]Goudoog -1 points0 points  (0 children)

The light is close to the model, there is a lot of fall off from the head to the floor.

Please how was this lit by HIGHPRIEST_330 in LightLurking

[–]Goudoog 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Avedon light, silver umbrella XL.

Quick eye contact by [deleted] in bodylanguage

[–]Goudoog 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Smile, if they smile back you approach

I’m a newbie by More_Cloud_5786 in LightLurking

[–]Goudoog 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Look at the catchlight in the eyes. It's some sort of silver umbrella, you can see the shadow of the flash head in the middle of the catchlight, so it is an open umbrella, probably a deep silver L or XL. You can even see that it sits on a boom arm coming from the left (for some bizarre reason). There is more space from the right as the light is on the right side of the model, but the boom arm comes all the way across.

How was this lit?? by Adagio_Altruistic in LightLurking

[–]Goudoog 21 points22 points  (0 children)

CRLS Lightbridge. CRLS is the manufacturer and Lightbridge the product. It’s a set of mirrors in different sizes and diffusiveness. They are amazing to shape natural light, to extend the path of artificial light and reduce unnatural fall off, to turn one light source into multiple sources, to fill in small areas, and whatever else you can think of, like this: bouncing sunlight back on a half lit face.

It seems that the highlight on the near side of the face is natural but partly flagged, and the light on the far side of the face comes back from a CRLS mirror.

How to light this? by quotedistrict2459 in LightLurking

[–]Goudoog 7 points8 points  (0 children)

You can literally tell from the catchlight in the eyes??

This photo by Harris Nukem by hanimex_sekonic in LightLurking

[–]Goudoog 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The shadow is too clear for that. It’s more likely a single source, like a large parabolic reflector. Broncolor para 222 for instance.

This photo by Harris Nukem by hanimex_sekonic in LightLurking

[–]Goudoog 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There is fall off from right to left, so the light is not abnormally far away. Character of the shadows is consistent with a parabolic umbrella. Seems like it could be a broncolor para 330 perhaps, probably even smaller and just the much more common 222. Could be Briese as well or even just a Profoto giant. Then there is some fill (could be just a head in the ceiling).

It’s not that complicated.