Beauty Dish Clam shell
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- Опубликовано: 5 сен 2024
- Peter gets asked about all the different styles of clamshell lighting he does quite regularly, and RaRa came in to the studio with an idea of recreating the lighting from an old shoot of Peter's using two gridded beauty dishes, so we filmed this tutorial showing how to get the effect.
Model: Rhiannon
Instagram: @rhiannon__lee__
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Lighting: 2x Gridded Beauty Dishes
Camera model: Hasselblad H6D-50c
Lens used: 100mm
Shutter-speed: 1/160
Aperture: f/8
Iso: 100
Filmed on:
Sony A7c with Zeiss Batis 18mm on a DJI Ronin-CS Gimbal
Sony FX6 with Sony G Master 16mm-35mm
Sony RX vii
iPhone 14 pro max on insta 360 gimbal
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Lighting boom Manfrotto Megaboom
The RAW software Peter is using: Phocus www.hasselblad...
Can process RAWs through this program with any camera on a Mac, but you will not be able to tether or use certain sliders.
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I’m so intrigued by how seemingly tiny changes in lighting have enormous effects on the outcome. RaRa is so cool, I love when you work with her. Thanks, as always 🙏❤️
Thank you, yes tiny changes can have a huge impact
Thank you
Yes, Peter, what's always bonzo to me is *how you previsualize these changes*..
These artistic sessions are brilliant in showing how the creator improvises and adjusts commensurate with light, molecules, atoms, quarks, space, time and how lovely models interact with each other, the creator and the elements within the space. Voila, magic!
Thanks heaps
RaRa and Bec in the same shoot would be stunning stuff. I love the mad scientist approach when your in the zone. clever and great stuff.
Thanks
" I don't know what America has done to me "! Love that!!!
Gives more appreciation for how they used to do this in the 70's and 80's and 90's before digital camera's and photoshop. No immediate feedback to see what changes you can make. It was all based on constant lighting instead of flash lighting.
We had instant feedback. We used a polaroid back on the camera to set up lighting back in the day. The switch back to film once you're happy.
Yes I still own some polaroid backs
@@DingbatToastI still own not only polaroid, but my first film camera, a Nikon F.
@franklaferriere5754 i kinda wish I still had all my Nikons. But at the time, I had to sell each one to afford the upgrade to the next. I find it serendipitous that my ultimate 35mm was the F5 and now I have a D5.
@@DingbatToast How is the D5?
RaRa is an elegant woman. Bec is hilarious. And you are a great teacher. Always enjoy seeing your content.
Thanks heaps
Hello Peter and Bec!!! Working with RaRa is always an experience itself. She sees the camera and transform herself in a beast. I can clearly understand why you enjoy so much working with her. And I bet she is also so happy having you and your professional experience during a session. She behaves so natural in this environment. Congratulations to all of you for sharing your time with us. We learn a lot!!! Bye!!!
Thanks heaps 😁
Love your attention to detail with the lighting and your professionalism. You work with stunningly beautiful models and are laser focused on achieving the look you and they planned.
Thanks so much 😊
@@huotstie you clearly don't like me so I have no idea why you continue to watch my videos and reply to other peoples comments, do I really bother you that much? Go touch grass.
Hi Pierre, it's Bec here 😊 just tried to call you, sent a follow up text but will try calling again in about 10mins, hopefully you are available to have a chat then 😊
When someone really take care about the lights dots in the eyes, you know that the attention to details is high! ;)
Yes that is what I do :)
Agreed. Not a thing wrong with her freckles. A natural beauty all around.
Love freckles
Excellent video and explanation.
You are so blessed with a "resident" model like RaRa.
Thanks for sharing
Thanks as always
ALWAYS appreciate you both… Cheers!
WOW thank you so much for your support ❤️
Yep, RaRa has captivating magic, and the chain does catch the eyes too
Peter your videos are literally the best on you tube love watching them as a photograph myself since I was a teen now 65 oops .
Love yours buddy
Thanks so much
Brilliant as always. Technical ability aside, I love the way you always bring in the ‘gut feel’. Allows us mere mortals to experiment without fear of it not being an absolute science. Thank you
Thanks Mark
always learning cool😉cool stuff from this channel 😎
thanks so much Peter & Bec! 🙏🏼💕
Glad you enjoyed it!
Amazing like always. Rara it's like nobody else from all your models, idk where is her "happy place" but those eyes are amazing 😊
Thank you, yes RaRa is awesome
i love the way of your workflow and touch of searching the perfect shot
As always great presentation I’m very fond of using the clamshell technique when I was in Italy I happen to work with a well-known photographer can’t mention his name but he showed me how to put two flats on each side in order the box in my light, was nice of him to share his advice on a project he was working with at the time!
Sounds awesome, thanks for watching
Fantastic as usual Peter. I really enjoy watching you manipulate your lighting to where you are happy with it. I need to slow down and 'fiddle' a bit more with my set ups. Beautiful model with a beautiful outcome. Thank you ...
Awesome, thank you!
amazing how you can adjust little things to get the results you already know you are looking for.
Thank you, the more you do something the more you know what it will do
As always informative and very helpful! Thank you so much Peter and dear Bec! God bless and good luck!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Thanks for sharing. I love watching the fine tune process
Thanks for watching
It's really helpful to see you compare the Lightroom editing to the Phocus editing. Thank you.
Glad it was helpful!
I always enjoy watching your videos and I've learned a lot from them. I've decided to throw in the towel and have quit shooting with models in my area. Another reason is the talent pool for models has dried up here as well. There are still one or two that I will shoot with anytime though. I will continue to watch and learn and maybe one day I'll get back on the horse and try again. Thanks for all your hard work.
Take a break and think what you love most in photography, then come back fresh and do it
Awesome inspiration. Need to try out a clam shell with BD in my smaller space. Can't wait. Thank you!
Awesome hope it goes well
Ahh... the master at work!
Thank you
For me it looked great before all the adjustments. Just B&W straight out of camera was so nice.
I thought the title was a madlibs arrangement of random words. Had no clue it was a legit thing. Now I know!
Can you give me the TLDR please?
@@tedgayer336 beuty dish refers to the reflector shape. Clam shell is an arrangement of beauty dishes for a particular lighting effect.
Have not seen this darkening effect via a software program; as you have shown here. (Very dramatic changes with the light/dark contrast). Thank you for the demonstration of this effect.
Thanks for watching
minuscule changes with visible results. very nice
Thank you
I just ran into your channel. I am more a nature photographer, since I was a kid actually. But I've done some model and portrait photography. Most of the models I've photographed the shoots were outdoors. Some of the ladies were more of the SG types or punkish/goth.Skateboard parks, graffiti spots,but also forest type, waterfalls, etc. Most of my work is stuck on an external hd that until Maxtor makes a patch for I cannot use on any OS above 7.
I'm always wanting to learn more of all of these types of photography and photo editing. I do not use Lightroom but Corel Paint Shop Pro 2003 Extreme, because I am also a graphic artist and love their fractal and other tools.
Like how you adjust skin tones for bw with blue. And yeah the having to change points is a pain.
What a studio set up too. Love it, but sure could not take it backpacking unless I got a sled and solar power system, though I supppse at waterfalls I could use a hydro source.
Glad I found your channel.
Thank you welcome aboard
I always enjoy watching you work. I especially like the way you work with your models. I'm a little more old fashion and use the visualization method. I can't tell you how many times I've tried to convince models I was Brad Pitt. :-)
Thank you very much!
The title of this video reminds me of that XKCD comic about making better passwords. "Correct Horse Battery Staple"
Another awesome Rara look 🥰
Thanks
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And also the master of lighting
@B: Many thanks for filming this session; it is grateful to know you are, at least, behind the video camera, when you cannot be in front on it.
@R: Many thanks for posing in this session. Could you do me a favor? Please curse those who dare to take that smile off your face. P mentioned you have an ongoing project in GR (?), I wish you the highest success; when you come back there, if you have the chance to meet up again with Zeus up there, on Olympus, please remind him that it was a big mistake that he let you go, remind him that he also made the mistake of being unable to appreciate the beauty he had in front of his eyes; and finally tell him that you are not willing to stay up there, on Olympus, where you were born, that being with humans, down in earth, was the best thing that has ever happened to you, because the gaze of humans is deeper than that of gods.
@P: Many thanks for bringing R once again to this channel. Regarding the lighting configuration I thought there was nothing better that a beauty dish, but I see that I was wrong, two is better, and even better if they are in clam shell configuration. It has been very good to demo the adjustment configuration panel. I have similar buttons in my software. There’s something that I have never seen you do, but I always do: when I select the photography I prefer, I do several adjustments and exports, then in the file system, once I have several images (based on the one I selected), I do two by two comparison and I select the ones I prefer, then I make new adjustments in additional iterations; this means I don’t have a solid criteria in advance to decide what is the desired adjustment; and I think this is becoming a bad habit. BTW: I think the photographs in this session are better in color.
love this one
Thanks
Hello to both of you
I had second thoughts about posting that . Always listen to your inter feeling 🤪
I like the fact that your studio only has what you need and not 10 thousand items you will never use.
Atleast were your shooting 😂
Bec is not actually a mother, I was just messing with her
@@PeterCoulsonPhotographer messing with both her and me .
I was thinking she really got back in shape rather quickly.
As always she's looking great .
is it really the case that the shutter speed of the video camera didnt catch the short flash you use for every picture?
Yes
Never worked with my lights that far back. At that distance away the light becomes more specular.
Very helpful!
Glad it was helpful!
Thanks for the editing comparison between Capture 1 and Lightroom. I use both, but had not noticed the difference in curves because I don’t use curves much in my current post work. I should re-examine some of my older portraits I had edited with Lightroom in capture one to see what I can achieve with C1.
Thanks I didn't use C1 it was Hasselblad's Phocus raw program and Lightroom
@@PeterCoulsonPhotographer Ah… it looks very similar to my C1 interface, sorry about my mistake.
So much more to learn. I see where I would have stopped and Peter kept going to add things to the image. Plus developing in lightroom i never use dehaze
Thanks
I feel all girls should own a top like that
Great video
Thanks!
I love how Phocus works compared to Lightroom/Capture One. I had a chance years ago to use a Hasselblad to take 7 model photos (at a Photography Show) which allows me to play around with the Program. It seems like it allows for easier Color to B&W conversion. It would be cool if it worked with other camera RAW files.
Yes Phocus is awesome and makes life so much easier, really wish they would allow it to be used with other cameras
Fantastic demonstration Peter, is it capture one your using?. Thanks peter.
No Hasselblads Phocus
@@PeterCoulsonPhotographer Thanks Peter.
Wow huge difference comparing the curve of the two programs. Adding points in LR looks like a pain. I looked up Phocus and it's free? And I can use with my Nikon? hmmmm.
not for all the sliders
You have a real standard to finding the most beautiful woman.
Must be a Australian thing.
California was like that in the past now it's all about way to much makeup and angry people.
Always enjoy the Peter and RaRa shoots! Question......I only have 1 beauty dish + grid so would this pretty much work with a dish and a gridded 1 meter octobox? Thanks as always for the awesomeness!!!
Yes I would put the octa as the top front light
@@PeterCoulsonPhotographerGlad you said that because I was going to do it beauty dish on top. Thanks!!!!!
When you talk about "building the point curve" does it apply the changes across the board or different gradients throughout the photo along the x-y axis that is depicted on the side of your screen for the adjustment points? I am not certain if I asked that correctly but you will probably understand what I am asking anyway (at least I hope). ;)
Yes it applies different gradients throughout the photo
Thank you for taking us through a very specialist set of techniques to get to the final images. There are so many layers of technique that have been learnt. I will have to revisit your site a few times just to pick up the basics.📸 Do you think Capture 1 helps this process over LR ?
I can't get my look out of Capture One and much prefer Lightroom
Great tutorial as usual. I was curious how you create a Blue Channel preset in Camera Raw or Lightroom.
Thanks so much, I have tutorials on my LUTs on Inspire, inspire.peter-coulson.com.au or there's this video on RUclips that I watched about creating them ruclips.net/video/WN16edKmV5Q/видео.html
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What does the blue channel profile do to the final image result? What difference does it make in the editing process?
@@vitorpavan5630 each of the channels creata different tonality, if you go into Photoshop and play with the channel mixer you will see what it does
@@PeterCoulsonPhotographer Thanks for the video that really help on learning to create LUTS. I am playing around with the color channels and trying to understand this blue channel and how it affects black and whites. I am struggling trying to create a similar look with Lightroom but learned some new tools Black and white is not as simple as color I feel lol
Great Video and photos Peter! Did you used on both beautydishs the grid?
Yes, thanks
Nice, where does the "high sound" after taking a picture come from? Camera? Flash ready? Capture one? Thanx.
first beep is the light, second beep is the camera
Why this model is so sad on the face on photos... Between a photos she has beautiful smile! We want happiness models! ❤
Fashion doesn't usually have smiling photos
@@PeterCoulsonPhotographer That doesn't mean it's good.
That moment at 15:20 when she opens up in an unguarded smile is the most beautiful. I guess the fashion industry doesn't run on true beauty or innocence. They want authoritative and impenetrable. Probably plays into an underlying "you don't have this" motive.
"We know that color's not a thing" 😂
Hi guys! Thanks again for a great video! Forgive me if this is an obvious question, do the dishes have a cup or other type of baffle inside apart from the grids? Thanks!
No worries Mick, no just a simple white beauty dish with a grid profoto.com/au/beauty-dishes
What boom/stand is that you are using? I need to invest in a more reliable boom after my last one got bent when I moved.
In description, Lighting boom Manfrotto Megaboom
So cool.
Thanks
Hi, How do you select blue channel for B&W conversion in LR or Capture one. Can you share preset? BR Lovrenc
You can't in LR and C1, but you can make a lut in photoshop and import the lut as a preset into LR. I have a full tutorial on inspire.
Why would the model know better than the photographer? LOL CLASSIC
First. Bam. Tim.
Bam
Thanks Tim
thanks one more time master. Im sorry, Where can I buy or download your black and white presets? Good Night
I don't have presets sorry, but I have LUTs available to download on inspire.peter-coulson.com.au
@@PeterCoulsonPhotographer awesome master. 💙
🍓🍒👍
lightroom seems painful...😂
Phocus is much easier
sorry about your friend
Thank you ❤️
does 30fps really not make everyone else sick? I mean seriously
what are you talking about, we shoot at 25fps
Не понимаю фотографов... Наделать столько практически одинаковых снимков и сидеть в каждом что-то подрисовывать...
"polishing the turd" lol polishing a turd is when you're trying to fish something that is terrible, pretty much useless and irrepairable. This is far from a turd.
Yes, but trust me, I even call it polishing the turd with my nature photography. You do get it all set up first, if you can, and typically the first few shots are not like the rest once you zero in on lighting.
Its a little different outdoors than in a studio where you can directly adjust lighting in all kinds of ways, but once you get the scene dialed in? The shots after are much better.
If she were wearing glitter you could work with her eyes closed, Heh heh heh.
if u choose parametric curve in LR, u can get closer to the result u want without having to set multipe points on the curve