Low Key Lighting for Portraits

[@RY-mw7br]

Very informative tutorial. I'm newbiest of newbies planning to tackle my very first project, and it happens to be one of the most difficult styles to learn: dark and moody. It's amazing to see how the video represents your studio as being very bright, almost high contrasty, yet your photos have that dark look. You were even using a speedlight and the background and her clothes just sucked up the light almost to the point that it seemed like you were shooting in a completely dark room. Oh boy, I have lots to learn!

[@RY-mw7br]

Also, that demonstration of using the torchlight and a slow shutter speed to draw light around the model for a perfect exposure was brilliant!

[@newcastlephotographycollege]

Thanks.

[@felixbird]

This is such a good tutorial!! Thank you - can’t wait to try these!

[@newcastlephotographycollege]

You are so welcome!

[@jimcook3882]

XLNT Instruction Video. Many things to absorb. Cassidy is gorgeous 🌹 Thank you

[@newcastlephotographycollege]

Glad you liked it!

[@ronaldhempel1906]

Thanks for the great suggestions, I love your photos

[@newcastlephotographycollege]

Thanks for your comment. I'm glad you liked it.

[@larrybrown8738]

You just made this look so simple. The shots were great without a lot of expensive gear.

[@newcastlephotographycollege]

Glad you liked it!

[@MichaelRoachWV]

This is a Photographer doing KZbin, not a KZbinr doing Photography. He’s actually teaching technique, not simply trying to push products. Amazing demonstration, definitely gave me some ideas!

[@wolfrehm6314]

Nice poses with a cute model! Like the idea with the torch, painting the model and surounding. Also the strip light with the shaders. gives a nice narrow beam light. Thanks for sharing your knowledge!

[@newcastlephotographycollege]

Thanks for your comment.

[@tomhighsmith]

Beautiful photos, she was also a beautiful and good model, she could stand perfectly still. Thank you very much for posting.

[@newcastlephotographycollege]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@samlamont6081]

Thanks so much for this. You make it look very simple and I am definitely going to give this a go.

[@newcastlephotographycollege]

You are so welcome!

[@geraldinebryce594]

Stunning photos. Loving your tutorials, watching them back to back. Thank you

[@newcastlephotographycollege]

Glad you like them!

[@WayneLeary]

Loved your Images...they looked great

[@newcastlephotographycollege]

Thanks so much!

[@kevinrtres]

Thank you for the great explanations - I've always wanted to do these kind of shots and now I know how to get it done and I can try out some of my own ideas! Thanks a lot.

[@newcastlephotographycollege]

Glad it was helpful!

[@jathyadharmasena988]

Best photography lesson I’ve seen so far!

[@newcastlephotographycollege]

Wow, thanks!

[@Charlie_YS]

I subscribe, simple and clear explanation. Excellent work 👏👏

[@newcastlephotographycollege]

Welcome aboard!

[@gamkagan]

You are a great teacher. What are the black sidewalls draped over your stripbox?

[@newcastlephotographycollege]

Thank you. They are just coreflute panels that I taped to the strip boxes to contain the spill of light. I didn't have any grids for the striplights.

[@JCPhotographyMallorca]

love the photos !! they turned out so beautiful

[@newcastlephotographycollege]

Thank you.

[@JCPhotographyMallorca]

@@newcastlephotographycollege sure anytime

[@camloff]

Enjoyed your show and shots.

[@newcastlephotographycollege]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@massimoromeo4932]

Bravissimi…..👏👏👏

[@darrenbivings4227]

Thank You so much. Very Nice indeed. What are the panels on the large strip Softbox? Are they DIY or store bought? I've been looking for something just like that for my Strip Lights.

[@newcastlephotographycollege]

Thank you for your comment. The boards on the stripbox are black corflute panels to control the spread of light. Just purchased from a hardware store. I now have Stripboxes that have grids which make it much easier.

[@darrenbivings4227]

@@newcastlephotographycollege corflute panels? I have never heard of corflute. Is it a type of Corrugated Panel? And even more importantly: How did you attach the panels to the StripBox? I'm guessing some kind of Velcro. And Thank You for your help. What I love about your adaptation is, It's like a barn door for the stripbox. I have Grid on my stripbox and it cuts down just a little too much. I like the Barn Door approach, It's like a Flag.

[@Muhammadfathi1]

Wonderful video. Thank you for your effort.

[@newcastlephotographycollege]

Thank you for saying that.

[@cristianomariani6838]

why don't you show the position of the flash?

[@newcastlephotographycollege]

I try to do as much as possible but it is difficult to show every aspect of the shoot and still make it interesting.

[@jamsheerthottathil7232]

👌👌👌

[@newcastlephotographycollege]

Thanks.

[@bewarethefuryofapatientman]

Thank you!

[@newcastlephotographycollege]

You're welcome!

[@d.k.1394]

Great

[@petrnovoselov1373]

Модель красивая.

[@priyantharathnayake5781]

Can you just mention the type of lense and the settings that u considered for each shoot.

[@newcastlephotographycollege]

I could do that because the settings and details are recorded in the meta data for each shot. The reason why I don't usually do it is because it would be mostly irrelevant for you because you are shooting in different lighting environments and different lighting equipment to me. Basically though I shoot at 200 ISO or 400 ISO most of the time my shutter speed for flash is 1/160th second and I adjust my aperture to achieve the desired exposure.

[@GopalSharma-cg6gc]

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[@vasanthakumar9134]

good sir

[@newcastlephotographycollege]

Thanks.

[@coconutcoconut3450]

mahalo!

[@JoshHaley]

I see no tag for Cassidy. Is she on Instagram, etc?

[@newcastlephotographycollege]

Hi Josh. I'm not sure what her instagram would be.

[@normski4ash]

So when you take the first shot, both of her hands are on her legs, then you show the shot, and one hand has gone ! Ergo not the shot you took ! Goodbye at 2minutes in...

[@newcastlephotographycollege]

Sorry Norm.