Controlling Your Lighting Using V Flats
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- Опубликовано: 14 окт 2024
- When building lighting set ups and making adjustments Peter prefers to use v flats over soft boxes, as he has more control over the direction of light. In this tutorial, he shows you how he uses them to get a very specific look he was after.
Model: Rhiannon
Instagram: @ragdoll212
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Lighting: 2 x Broncolor flash heads with V flats
Camera model: Hasselblad H6D-50c
Lens used: 100mm
Shutter-speed: 1/160
Aperture: f/8
Iso: 100
Filmed on:
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Sony A7s iii with Sony 16-35mm
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just love the interaction that Peter has with the models and how they get to have a say in the look too....
Loved the tips, and the attention to detail, and the solution to the issue with the shadow on her face was great. Thanks for sharing.
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you Peter Coulson for sharing so much of the process, we truly get to watch and learn a lot! I like how in the videos is just you adjusting the light and V Flats showing us really all the know how and experience you have Sir.
You are very welcome
Peter - you and all the professional experience you share are awesome - "Thankyou you!" for making such an empowering (educational) difference in our pursuit to express ourselves in this art form... you have made, and continue to make, a positive difference in what our passions... Thank you again - and may you have many more happy and healthy years ahead of you.
wow thank you so much Nicholas and thanks for your support 🥰
Bam. Second. Love watching your videos where you are doing photography and talking to the model and adjusting the lighting and the exposure.
Awesome, thank you!
Really appreciate your whole team and the willingness to share and show your methodology. Many thanks, all the best and have a great week.😀
Our pleasure!
I enjoy how you work through the details of the lighting to get precisely what you want. Inspires me
Thanks so much 😊
Love Bec’s new glasses! And love the back shot of RaRa ❤️
I think it's so much fun to experiment with light and it's amazing what subtle little movements can create with different intensities and different buffering using V-Flats, White boards or whatever you have and use. Of course having a subject/model/client like Ra Ra doesn't hurt either, and that back shot is stunning!! Take care - Dave
Thanks Dave
Yes, you folks really know your stuff and thank you so much for sharing! It must be great to have such a large space to work in! If I had that kind of space I would have V-flats everywhere because watching how you work, they seem to be some of the best light modifiers one could use and they stand on their own! Love this stuff
Thanks so much Chuck
Thanks for all that detailed class.
Thank you so muck for your support 🥰
Can't wait for the V-Flats at my friends studio, he recently ordered custom made ones. I've used them before at another studio. I've been using dual stripe lights to control the light. have always loved dual stripes.
Have fun!
So many different lights possible and available to choose from..... It's the magic of photography Sometime I can't say what's good and what's bad.
The attention to detail is impressive.
Thank you
I love your work “guys”! Very entertaining and educational! Fantastic video😎❤️✌️🍻🍻🍻
Thank you! Cheers!
Awesome tips on lighting and V Flats to get the look you want.
Thank you
What I'v learn in this one : what she likes is the most important thing, not what the photographer likes the most (all comes down to the relationship between the two) & the main objectif of a shoot, one pic, one master pic. Great video :)
Thanks yes you gotta keep the model happy
Fantastic video yet again! Rara and Bec are the best models on this channel
Glad you like them!
Love these looks. And Rara nails it. Cool.
Thanks Alex
all I can say is thanks and wow this is incredible
Thanks for watching
Great studio lesson with flats - thanks!
Glad you liked it Kerry
Loved it!! Amazing lights, amazing model...
Thanks a lot!
Built my own 8 ft V flats - love it.
V flats are the best
@@PeterCoulsonPhotographer thank you so much for your hard work and sharing your knowledge.
Since storm, rain and thunder are part of us here I always have to adapt to your summer outfits out there ;-)
Great that RaRa is so available for your videos, is she living around the block or what ?
Please don't do the "kill her shot" 😪😀😄😁😆
Great video again, thanks for sharing from a wet wet wet Amsterdam
14:32 - What makes this picture so interesting, it looks like it could be *almost* anybody, (with this upper body type). {The mystery person}. Excellent posing and photography.
Many thanks for this new backstage session.
Bec & RaRa: Many thanks for being present in this channel.
Peter: Many thanks for this technique that allows us to easily, and at a low price, to establish vertical lighting strips, with the lightest in the middle.
Very interesting, definitely want to try that👍
Please do!
Ima borrow that one…your shirt’s overexposing so it’s gotta go😂💯🙌
lifehack
My favorite Tony Levin in studio quote is "Let's do (record) a second one so we can choose the first one". 😉
love that 😁
Excellent video (as usual). Quick question - are these V flats from a specific manufacturer or did you make them yourselves? In case they are DYI V Flats it would be cool to know what materials and paint you've used.
I buy the foam cut to size from a foam manufacture then paint one side with matt black acrylic paint
In case you're interested, I am building my own V-flats and found 30x40" foam boards on Amazon with white on one side and black on the other. They come in a 10-pack, so I will be making two sets with four panels each, held together with gaffer tape, and will use the extras as backgrounds for product and still life photography.
Love it painting with light
Thank you
Awesome Peter
Can I ask what the big grey background in this video is made out of. I love it!
Is it a huge canvas or hand painted wall ?
Hand painted wooden Cyc
Thank you for sharing.
Great video. Very informative. I have just one question, it may be a dumb question. I see after every one or two shots you will tilt the camera up then back down to shoot again. Is that something with the camera or just a personal habit?
The Hasselblad only has centre spot focus, it's focus then recompose
Great video
Thanks!
Hey there! I noticed that sometimes, when you shoot you turn your camera slightly up after you took a photo. Why is that? It's like the camera kicks after you shoot! Like a gun! It looks cool
The Hasselblad only has centre spot focus, it's focus then recompose
Ох уже эти cool, nice. :)))
Beautiful woman, beautifully photographed.
Wow, thank you
What a job Fun
Приятно смотреть за работой профессионала
Спасибо
Peter. Big question for me: white V flats at 90 degrees with mono shooting into them VS strobe shooting into an ultrabounce white fabric hung on a pipe with the same area as the V flats (this would be the cinema version: pipe, fabric, C-stand). Is there any difference? Does the V shape control spill more than a normal flat surface? I'm trying to compare cinema vs photography techniques here; I just had this question on a DP forum and I couldn't get an answer and I had no time to test.
You might get some spill through the fabric
@@PeterCoulsonPhotographer ultrabounce is a sunstop type of fabric, no spill through it. Ok think about it as using a large flat foamcore vs the v arrangement - you think there would be more spill from pure flat bouncing?
@@cubul32 I don't know give it a try
Yeah a ton of studios still don't have v flats. They don't want to modernize
So true
100%. Amazing how many studios don’t have them but at the same time so many people who call themselves togs don’t even know what they are
hopefully I have made more people aware and how to uses V flats
Love V-Flats, great video Pete, Bec and Ra Ra. Always enjoy these videos, thank you.
That’s true! A lot of the studios I’m looking at possibly renting when I go back to Europe in April don’t have them
Hey Peter, what monitors are you using in the studio?
LG UltraFine Display the new mac's are also good
What is the Rara Amsterdam video Peter talks about?
ruclips.net/video/4n4fIJ9d2HQ/видео.html
@@PeterCoulsonPhotographer Wow. Yes. You have talked before about how models are different when they believe they are doing video. I can see that here. And yes I can see it translate into your work in this photography video.
superb indeed (Bec included of course) .. this just illustrates that old saying .. 'all the gear and no idea" .. If Peter was a Golfer it wouldn't matter what you had in your bag .. he'd have a charity shop club set and still beat you. Learn your craft 1st! .. then start spending on big stuff
Absolutely :) thanks heaps
Love your poses, I just do not like the vertical hot spots piping above her eyes on her forehead on some of the shots.
everyone has their own taste
What tripod head does Peter use?
All our gear is in the description, Peter’s Ball Head: www.reallyrightstuff.com/bh55-ball-head
Hey there, Peter coulson on RUclips. Thanks for all the support and will you photo all my girls in cheerleading uniforms for me. Spare no expense on that one. A sweater type and a drill team tight and light af.
У дядьки майка прикольная фигуру подчёркивает! 😜🤣
we are all men of culture innit?
Damn...THAT is a model? Guess anyone willing to strip down can be a model.
no
I may sound rude but models these days are getting too skinny for that zero size which is damaging to their health.
Yes you are ill informed and rude, RaRa is 2 sizers lager than a 0 and 100% healthy
I dont like the result
you are not who I shot this for
This is the worst lighting I've ever seen.
what a sad person, I feel sorry for you and hope you find a purpose in life
@@PeterCoulsonPhotographer Have fun with your unsuspecting fans.
тени от носа - это, конечно, провал
полагаться на мнение модели - еще больший провал
И обращать внимание на то, что вы говорите, еще больший провал