A creative studio setup for just one dollar
Saturday 14 April 2018, 14:41 by Michelle Peeters | 6,367 views | 2 commentsThis article was translated from Dutch with the help of AI. Read the original.
Perfect equipment does not guarantee a good photo. Experienced professionals have been saying this for years. While they work with excellent studio lights and diffusers themselves, this does not come across as very convincing to many photographers. This video may change your mind.
Arber Elezi shows in the video below on Fstoppers how you can light a model with a relatively simple setup using six small lights.
Arber Elezi does not resort to expensive flash units and reflectors. He only uses around six small LED lights, a few coloured gels and a piece of tissue paper.
He uses the lights as you would use normal studio lights: a key light, a fill light with the tissue paper as a diffuser, two side lights covered with gels (sweet wrappers?), a hair light and a background light.
The only difference is that he has to place the lights closer to the model than he normally would because of the lack of light output.
To compensate even more for the limited power of the LEDs, Arber Elezi shoots his 85 mm at an aperture of f/1.2 with an ISO of 400 to make sure he can use a shutter speed of 1/100 second to freeze his subject for a well-exposed and sharp image.
The colour transition is not the smoothest and the light is a little hard, but for what it is, the results are still quite good. This video simply shows that you can stimulate your creativity enormously by limiting yourself a little.
About the author
Michelle Peeters is fotografe en oprichter van DeuxBleus Fotografie. Michelle herkent het bijzondere in het gewone en het gewone in het bijzondere. Ze heeft zich nooit willen specialiseren en is daardoor van alle markten thuis.
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2 comments
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Lauran wrote on Tuesday 17 April 2018 at 13:42 | replyHoi Michelle, leuk artikel. Waar kun je deze lampjes kopen en welke zijn het? ivm sterkte?
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Michelle Peeters wrote on Tuesday 17 April 2018 at 13:50
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@Lauran: ik zou gewoon eens googelen op led-lampjes, ik denk dat het al snel goed is! Het is een continue lampje, dus moeilijk vergelijkbaar met een flitslamp. Maar je ziet direct het resultaat en je kunt ze dichterbij je model zetten of je diafragma vergroten als je te weinig lichtopbrengst hebt!
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