I don't do food photography regularly. But your lighting insights help in my tech product videos a lot!! Thank you!!
@figandlight3 жыл бұрын
That’s awesome , thanks for watching!
@HijabsandAprons3 жыл бұрын
This overall approach has been KEY in my food/product photography looking *so much* more compelling than when I started out. Great analysis, Brandon!! I appreciate you going a step further than other educators and sharing your observations, research, and analysis with us so that we understand the "why" 🙏🏼
@figandlight3 жыл бұрын
Thank you Leena! I really appreciate it 🙏
@EwenBell3 жыл бұрын
Hi Brandon. I've been lucky enough to have taught photography and lighting for nearly two decades and you do such a beautiful job of elucidating these concepts. Not just because you're good on camera but you have the depth of understanding to carry it through. Great work.
@charitygachuhi29413 жыл бұрын
i clicked so fast! Your thumbnails always make me want to grab my camera and shoot kitchen ingredients 😊. Looking foward to the weekend to put what i learnt from this into practice.
@dustydxclusive3 жыл бұрын
Your video content is always the best. Ever since I started watching your videos it made my photos look better. Thanks for coming back 🙂
@figandlight3 жыл бұрын
That’s awesome, thank you!
@renzdii3 жыл бұрын
As always, this channel is a treasure!
@ivanvarenikov45463 жыл бұрын
I almost never leave any comments on KZbin, but your videos are so good! Glad you are back, keep going!
@epradeep3 жыл бұрын
So good to see a video from you after a long time. As always thought provoking and useful information. Thank you and welcome back :).
@figandlight3 жыл бұрын
Thanks Pradeep!
@kunsunrethy3 жыл бұрын
Thanks for being here again! Stay safe and have a good one!
@thomasvoigt10509 ай бұрын
Thank you Brennan. Well explained and super great to learn.
@SusanneGeert3 жыл бұрын
Your videos are AMAZING 🙌🏼 Watch every one of the the moment I see they are up 😊 Definitely more like these, please 🙏🏻
@figandlight3 жыл бұрын
Thank you Susanne!
@SusanneGeert3 жыл бұрын
@@figandlight I meant videos, of course - don't know why it changed to vines 😅 Changed it now;-)
@pranamsk3 жыл бұрын
This video is gem. Period. Thanks man for amazing content.
@raqueladiva13 күн бұрын
Your videos are amazing! Keep them coming!
@jedesu3 жыл бұрын
Glad to see you back with new and improved videos! looking forward to more
@roadcrewfilms Жыл бұрын
Your channel is pure gold! Mate!
@qlim17023 жыл бұрын
best photo/lighting youtube channel, my top favourite
@a.niche.studio3 жыл бұрын
Really happy to have you back. I just want to point out that your voice is so soothing and calm that it reflects in your pictures as well. Very nice observations emphasizing the importance of backlight. Thank you for creating such insightful videos🙂
@chrisyfitz Жыл бұрын
Your teaching methods are first class, Brendon; I've learned so much from your videos. Thank you
@figandlight Жыл бұрын
Thanks Christine! Appreciate that
@hermessingson58065 ай бұрын
great insights! very much appreciated! thanks for this video! 👍
@channelbibanco62603 жыл бұрын
learned a lot from this . . . lookimg forward to moreof it soon
@graham_56093 жыл бұрын
I’m a portrait photographer but I’m going to experiment with this in my next shoot. Thanks for all of the great content!
@gkandilakis2 жыл бұрын
you are the best bro there are super serious lessons to learn from.
@mikesshots85873 жыл бұрын
I’ve been waiting for the follow up of this series
@MariusVideoTuts8 ай бұрын
It’s about volumetric light too. In those shots where you have steam, actually in almost all examples from the movies, they aquire volumetric light. Which give depth to te shot, as you said. But to obtain volumetric light, the air most be not “clean”. Dust, steam, smoke, artifical smoke.
@jeanmari19263 жыл бұрын
Gold!!! Lucky we are as subscribers. 🤘🏼
@svitlanafilatova6026 ай бұрын
Love the video!! But would argue about the better picture with a strawberry smoothie. The pic on the left looks better just because usually we drink smoothies in the morning and since the pic on the left looks like it was shot in the rainy (or cold winter morning) it looks better (just my modest opinion as an ex-marketing manager 😊)
@Robloxisgood1793 жыл бұрын
I dont do food photography but i love watching your tutorial. Thank you for sharing. Keep em coming!
@livelifefully83503 жыл бұрын
Brandon, I really enjoy your presentation style, so thorough and engaging. You make me feel like I can do anything.
@HijabsandAprons3 жыл бұрын
Omg the pasta shots at 9:40! 🤩
@yogi.photos54943 жыл бұрын
Nothing but SOLID info - every time.
2 жыл бұрын
this is so helpful, thank you so much
@kirin89443 жыл бұрын
thanks for being so in depth ( pun unintended) and informative. Love ur vids
@baleinalbert3 жыл бұрын
I didn’t skip ads to support this.
@garet_taylor3 жыл бұрын
Thx for sharing ur knowledge 🙏 #Big appreciate 👍👍👍
@marcusjpotter3 жыл бұрын
LOVE THIS VIDEO! (really useful to instill the concept and idea with examples of how its created using studio lighting setups for the shot)
@noonseen20172 жыл бұрын
Awesome video! your content is the best! Thank you so so much!
@ZaZaChiaChia2 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge in depth and explaining in a way that’s very easy to understand! You’re not just a great photographer but an amazing teacher too! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
@toubutey2 жыл бұрын
Hi Brandon, thank you for the amazing content! I sell pottery and other kitchen products and your videos are helping me take better photos for my social media accounts and website. I currently have a single Godox SL60W which I setup with a 120cm octagonal softbox side lighting my subject with a white reflector on the other side. My backdrop is 1 meter wide, and I place my softbox and reflector right by its edges. I have been struggling with light fall-off across my scene, my backdrop and background get significantly darker from one side of the frame to the other. I think the fall-off makes my image look a little “fake”. I’m trying to go for the indirect/window lit look and from what I can observe these types of images tend to be evenly lit across the scene (in the direction of the light source). Setting up my light to a 45-degree angle somewhat helps but I think I lose a bit of the window lit look with the shorter shadows. I imagine this kind of issue if hard to describe without seeing the actual photos, but any tip or comment might go a long way.
@youtubeaddict13 жыл бұрын
Brandon is officially the 🐐
@AhmadShadeed3 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much. Very helpeful!
@maiefranco66713 жыл бұрын
I'm so glad that you're back!
@Bijitta5 ай бұрын
Beautifully explained 👍🏻
@aksesmemory86892 жыл бұрын
Saya belajar banyak dari bapak 👍👍
@lefthandright013 жыл бұрын
Cinematic principle. Shoot shadow side and into the light. The eye will be attracted to in order: Human faces Highest contrast Highest saturation Brightness. Web design uses these same principles for design hierarchy. This has been studied with people having their eye movements recorded as they look at a series of different images.
@sylvanusedi76953 жыл бұрын
that is amazing, would never have seen that if you have not explained it. Thank you
@belleharris20593 жыл бұрын
Yay!!!! I’m so glad you are back!!
@shindigo3 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the video - I love it when the presenter asks "why?" and gives a good answer. I think it is sometimes overlooked in tutorials. One question I have: how can I reconcile this advice with the need to not blowout the highlights when facing the light source?
@figandlight3 жыл бұрын
I think there are a number ways you can do this. I typically use a polarizing filter, otherwise I would just expose for the backlight and then add fill light to the front to even put the exposure.
@leechappelow27573 жыл бұрын
Amazing content - thank you so much
@kimwavemm2 жыл бұрын
Super insightful 😻😻😻
@darmawanmeliana3 жыл бұрын
I always love all of your videos. You presents it with the simple way... ❤ from Indonesia....
@phuong92643 жыл бұрын
Love your content, normally i dont like slow, and too detail infomation video. But somehow i enjoy yours. Amazing!
@figandlight3 жыл бұрын
thank you!
@guirob3 жыл бұрын
Yyeeaahh !! Thank you very much thid video is very interested and educational
@Dragonkiller4ever3 жыл бұрын
Omg you're alive, i'm so happy!!
@sadiamirza77233 жыл бұрын
Great video ,as always. Thanx for sharing.
@literallyshane43063 жыл бұрын
This was so good. Every video is a game changer.
@lokitomanny Жыл бұрын
At the very least, this view inspired me to open up my kitchen window, clear my dinning table from all the clutter on it, layout a flat white cardboard, put a couple of apples 🍎 on a bowl, and take a few shots. There are certain mysteries in life that I will never understand, lighting and women, I don’t know how to conquer neither of them, but am alive, I still exist, so the least I could do is to continue to try, thank Jesus for digital photography so I don’t have to waste so much money on film shooting horrible photographs. I think there are two type of people on earth, #1, the ones that are blessed, everything their do or touch comes out right, so it doesn’t matter what type of lighting it is, the image will look fabulous. Then there are type #2. The ones that struggles. We are the ones that don’t have it, we have to try and try until we stumble into one little niche that we can do well, find the one woman that likes us, and then we just better stay there and preserve that, we have to concentrate on developing that one niche and don’t wonder too far. This is when back lighting might be the one niche that could help spring up some of us into a style that works so that we can fake it and act like we made it. I remember back in 1999 when I first heard of digital cameras, there was a photography using a 960 Pixel Sony camera, not even 1 MP, and it was amazing how he was able to use the lacking of that camera and turn it into art, he would mostly shot BW because the camera didn’t have white balance settings and could never get the colors right, so he didn’t even bother. Today, I find myself with a 20MP mirror less camera, that has amazing white balance, all kinds of different lens, and I can’t even start to image to create images like that photographer was producing with that very first iteration of the Sony digital camera journey. For a while Sony fade away when Canon and Nikon took over the digital realm with their DSLR, but am glad to see Sony back on the horse with the whole compact mirrorless cameras. These days I find myself spending too much time watching KZbin tutorials and not pressing the shutter button enough, it is just more enjoyable to see someone produce beautiful photos, than me struggling to get one shot that is half way decent. But, your videos do give me some motivation and inspiration to keep trying, I am still here, so why not.
@alext86513 жыл бұрын
Great stuff as always
@yervandpapazyan44733 жыл бұрын
Great video, but i have a question, backlight create a lot of glare on a drink or what ever on a steak meat, so the question is what do you do? Do you use polarization filter or somehow you have some technic to avoid glare without using polarizer
@JSMedia383 жыл бұрын
If you're getting glare, you can angle the camera so that the lens doesn't catch as much light from the source, you can also use a lens hood. You can also change the position or angle of the light if possible. A polarizer can help but it's not always going to be enough.
@figandlight3 жыл бұрын
👆 🙌
@feelingzromantic86353 жыл бұрын
Just what I needed!! Thank you ♥️
@Cebrinas.Canvas4 ай бұрын
Love your channel.❤😊
@lesterlusanta66033 жыл бұрын
Yey more vids!! :)
@dak13yearsago157 күн бұрын
thank you!
@jimpchip3 жыл бұрын
Wonderful Video!
@mscadenn3 жыл бұрын
Amazing!! Love the way you explain this subject!!
@figandlight3 жыл бұрын
Thanks Miguel! Hope all is well
@milanchorous39703 жыл бұрын
Welcome back! 🙏🏻
@ctongzng3 жыл бұрын
Thank you brother 🙏🏻
@saipoornimamadiwal32913 жыл бұрын
Loved the video! You really inspire me to change my current setup😜 Also so glad you used the painting reference 😍
@figandlight3 жыл бұрын
Thank you Saipoornima! hope all is well
@ali_ghosi13 Жыл бұрын
wooooow i like it thank u😍
@esthernathasia3 жыл бұрын
such a helpful info for very newbie here, but can anyone tell me what to type the name of the diffuser (white paper roll) and flag (black board thingy) or where i can buy it? thank you before, sorry if this dum dum question hehe
@figandlight3 жыл бұрын
no worries! the roll is from a company called Rosco. they’re pretty expensive and I wouldn’t recommend it if you’re just starting out. A simple 5 in 1 reflector from Amazon should do just fine. The board I got from Amazon as well. It’s from a brand called Elmer’s
@andreabonato15573 жыл бұрын
LOVE IIIIIIIT!
@cocboss3329 Жыл бұрын
Wonderful
@YoutubeCrisPix3 жыл бұрын
Amazing! This is a realy, realy important thing for me 😀
@comradeprashik70593 жыл бұрын
Thank You!
@motorolasafi3 жыл бұрын
Do we have to turn on room lights when using natural sun light or diffused light?
@donwondervidz22373 жыл бұрын
You are a genius !
@mr.c_visuals3 жыл бұрын
🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
@iamarunima3 жыл бұрын
But what do we do in sunlight directly coming to lens.
@hetalsindhwad5793 жыл бұрын
Nice video as ever..always learn something,,cud u pls suggest some good book on lighting...thnx
@AerialKorea3 жыл бұрын
nice advice for me
@pakistanimukbang57523 жыл бұрын
wow great
@amazing.sam369 Жыл бұрын
It's is very helpful to me specially for cooking videos but I have android
@tuquibraun64143 жыл бұрын
subscribed! very good content
@figandlight3 жыл бұрын
Thank you!
@anabejarano18523 жыл бұрын
The best!
@farzanasfoodvillage40183 жыл бұрын
Great
@carrieannkouri21513 жыл бұрын
Great video. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
@figandlight3 жыл бұрын
Thanks Carrie!
@artnerd51073 жыл бұрын
Can u make one video on how to shoot fine jewelry?
@Geekistaan3 жыл бұрын
great vid!
@barrelleaf3 жыл бұрын
"ah see what I did there" 😂😂😂
@alexbond40842 жыл бұрын
Привет, скинь фирму стола, очень классный.
@marioantz97693 жыл бұрын
hey your video content is A+ its amazing but its getting boring after some point