Creating Dark and Moody Lighting during the Day | Lighting Tips

[@LastXwitness]

Really appreciate you having me back on the channel! hope this was a fun one for you guys to try if you havnt before and theres def bits a pieces you can apply to other situations for sure! thanks again

[@ourPPA]

It’s always a pleasure to have you hop on! 🙌

[@SolomonSpencerPhotog]

It’s the dented beauty dish! Awesome demo Seth as usual

[@LastXwitness]

the legendary dish i snagged it from Daniel Norton for the day

[@stevenmuncy491]

Thank you for walking us through each step!

[@LastXwitness]

Appreciate you checking it out

[@pasakuma6113]

Another excellent demo by Seth!

[@LastXwitness]

thanks glad it was worthwhile

[@arangodan]

Excellent build up of a wonderful scene

[@LastXwitness]

thank you glad you liked it

[@fotogfitzfoto412]

Great vid as usual from Seth. Instructive and entertaining.

[@LastXwitness]

nothing worse than being boring

[@mariomifsud1302]

A real professional

[@LastXwitness]

i just play one on youtube 😜

[@captaincook6283]

I learned smth today - also like the step by step approach thanks ;)

[@geraldinebryce594]

Wow, I tried this today but couldn’t quite get there. I used a grid and did everything you just did. Now I’ve watched you do it I know where I was going wrong. I didn’t flag my light because I thought the grid would do it alone. Thank you 🙏 my brain was frazzled

[@LastXwitness]

there ya go glad it was helpful

[@dalesanders7885]

Pure gold! Thanks, Seth and PPA!

[@ourPPA]

You’re welcome! 🧡

[@whittyp47]

Fantastic video Seth.

[@LastXwitness]

thanks so much

[@donbodat]

Awesome pro tips for creative lighting!

[@alvirmacalino6364]

Wow!! This is Art! Thanks!

[@heshamaskar67]

Great video, very helpful, thank you!……🙏💐

[@juliobarkan9529]

Interesting way of putting a low-key moody feel to photos. Love it.

[@tonyaleman6938]

I'm curious. Are you using a rolling tool box for a work table? lol

[@LastXwitness]

yep!

[@tommynikon2283]

Yep; I’ve been doing the same for decades.

[@csc-photo]

I always appreciate Seth’s content 👏🏻 Invaluable tips that are easy to understand & apply. Thanks! 🙂📷💡

[@Maz3-1]

Amazing session as ever Seth! You are one super cool dude oozing with knowledge and have the ability to part that know-how for mere mortals to understand! We are definitely living in The Matrix! Watching you we can upload the program to make day time look like night, or upload Ab Sesay or Lindsay Adler and we can recreate sunlight in the studio 😂. Thanks Seth!

[@Kamalphotosnice]

It's a great video and full of information. The only problem is that a beginner who only has a regular camera and lens can't achieve the same result. The reason is that you used other tools such as flash, softbox, etc.

[@jensreinacher3814]

Very nice demo, thank you Seth. One question, though, you said you limit your shutter speed to 1/200th because you do not want to get into HSS and you wanted to go into the whys later in the vid. I couldn't find that part, so i can only guess it is because of gels eating some light and HSS reducing light output of the flash further? What other considerations are there against HSS in this scenario?

[@LastXwitness]

sorry about that I think because I do these in one take and sort of almost live I forget to go back to things like that. HSS wasnt needed here and yes part of that was because we lose power of the strobe from the gel and also the grid so why work myself into that corner because HSS sets the strobe power all the way up (although thats a 500ws strobe I would have been fine) Theres also the fact that I was working with changing daylight and may need to actually slowthat shutter speed to allow the light to still come through the curtains otherwise you would have jsut had the strobe ON them which leads to no presence of that cold dim light peaking through... youd loose that sheer feel to them too. When you start slowing down your shutter speed back off from HSS and out of that mode it can cause an over all chasing of the exposure for the shot again so before really throwing that variable in there its best to keep it simple unless you absolutely needed to play that HSS card that said if i was in HSS i would have just leaned everything else I am doing to work with in that mode. AAAAAnd also I wasnt shooting super shallow meaning i was at f4 HSS really excels at very wide apertures otherwise youll find you dont get much power from the strobe causing you to creep it in closer and closer.. so for me HSS comes into play when I am in a situation that I want a very shallow look (think 2.8 or wider) but have a ton of ambient light over exposing the shot from said wide aperture which means I gotta boost up that shutter speed to mitigate all that light coming in the camera.. so when strobe is introduced its gotta go into HSS (or you can go the ND filter route instead but thats another convo) that was a lot but hope that helps clarify

[@jensreinacher3814]

@@LastXwitness Thank you very much for this long and detailed explanation! Not many youtubers, creators, professionals would take the time for that.

[@jamesg1974a]

Lots of rambling and unnecessary words. A crisper presentation would come across more clear