Advanced One Light Setup Techniques – Photography & Video Tutorial

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From Jay P. Morgan,

Today on the Slanted Lens we show you Advanced One Light Setup Techniques. We are shooting in a studio in downtown Los Angeles.

We have beautiful Cynthia Chavez on our set and we will be exploring advanced lighting setups. Combining a single Dynalite strobe head with a Photoflex silver P22 reflector and a $15.00 dollar mirror from Home Depot we can make a single strobe head look like several heads on set.

This is a look at advanced lighting with a single head. I hope you will find this advanced look at a single light setup helpful.

It’s important to remember that hard light from mirrors and silver reflectors becomes almost as powerful as the main light source and can create multiple light sources on set. A 15 dollar mirror from Home depot is a great investment.

You can modify them much like a regular light with flags and scrims and even diffusion. Keep those cameras rollin and keep on clickn’.

Products used in this video:
Photoflex Silver P22 Reflector:
Dynalite Strobe Head:
Glidecam HD 2000:
Vanguard Alta Pro Tripod:
Tamron SP Lens 75-200mm:
Kessler KC Light Crane:

50 Comments
  1. David Dellman says

    great stuff. Thank you

  2. Zhao Zhang says

    awesome mirror!!!!

  3. Alex López says

    Great demo, thank you.

  4. Ganesh chinchole says

    Wat's a ISO sutter speed and aperture

  5. Ganesh chinchole says

    Wat's a ISO sutter speed and aperture

  6. Eric says

    This isn't a tutorial. These are just examples…that are thrown together into a video. The glide cam is annoying as hell for this type of video. Just show the lighting positions and just picture taken. Why is that so hard?????

  7. TheNazreensyah says

    was the flash coming from the softbox??

  8. tutu kelly says

    i simply subscribed to your chanel bcos you say some interesting stuff about light 🙂

  9. Milan Dzunda says

    i would not call this advanced but over the top light setup.most of the results were actually not that great at all.simplicity is the key but i guess you wanted to show what can be done by using this and that.nice trick with mirror

  10. La Tortuga CSC says

    JP you're the man! learned so much from your channel 🙂
    so many possibilities! now i now where i can get foamcard, mirror, lights.
    but wait…… where do i get talents like her? how come she's thaaat breathtaking beautiful!? amazing.

  11. ORISHA PHOTOS says

    Technically this is not a 1 light setup considering the 1 light in the background that's illuminating the whole studio! LOL 1:15

  12. Benoit Daoust says

    cool… but you guys don't know how to use video gear !
    haha…
    Nice photo tips !

  13. ValiRossi says

    Amazing video! Thanks for the lesson.

  14. Bryon Lape says

    I use these same techniques in DAZ Studio when I render with Lux.

  15. ابتهال محمود says

    That's great. , thanks so much for sharing that with us , keep going and waiting for your next vedio

  16. WillHerndon says

    Jay P. Morgan is an unfortunate name if you're a liberal.

  17. Get Fit Or Die Trying says

    to much to quick and still not a lot of detail

  18. JafonsoPhoto says

    Awesome video, who knew that using a mirror would bring such great results,
    Just want to confirm one thing, is it fair to assume that no flash was used here? I haven't noticed, so! only continuous lighting, right?

  19. hpept says

    Excellent tutorial and wonderful hot model.

  20. Aqeel H says

    Good job

  21. Rick Engelhart says

    GREAT CHANEL THANKS FOR THE VIDS.
    LEARNING A ALLOT

  22. Pepe Le Pew says

    That glidecam thingy is so tiny

  23. brianminkc says

    Not very mechanical minded… would like to see a demonstration of how you have that mirror mounted on that stand.

  24. Marc Dolce Photography says

    That mirror trick was great. very impressed

  25. Renee S says

    amazing! Thanks for sharing this video.

  26. Green Plasticbag says

    'Rim her from behind'?

  27. Sivag photography says

    very very useful sir

  28. فكر عقيم says

    100000000000009999 Lik

  29. YouGleIt says

    hi, great tutorial. thanks. is it possible that at 1:45 the images are reversed? i do see a bit of shine on her face on the darker side (right image marked as with reflector) but other than that it almost seems that the image on the left is the one with more fill? darker on the other image.

  30. Mr Henderson says

    "Rim her from behind"

  31. TimmyTechTV says

    You guys have awesome editing.

  32. David C says

    Good result. But a lot of playing around with soooo many damn "tools" This could've been achieved with some good off camera flash photography.

  33. GIFF India says

    Hi. I am Abhishek Galshar.Have great knowledge. I have place in my studio 20 feet length and 11 feet width. i want to install flood light for videography and photograph so which light do you recommend? and tell which light have focus intensity at least 20 feet plz guide me

  34. fotoinajuicebox says

    Not much of a catchlight. She looks dead.

  35. Enna Park says

    very useful tips.

  36. Shay Vidas says

    hey , what light lamp do you use ? what light tempeture is your light ? i mean you wrote it's daylight, but daylight is, 5,500 K and your images looks allot warmer then that… ?

  37. Prabhath MP says

    Awesome 🙂
    Could a similar effect be achieved with a single flash source? 🙂

  38. JoelDeLaCueva says

    You don't need to use every single tool you have… the glidecam and crane movement really got me out of the video, just sayin' but really good tutorial!

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  40. chewsir says

    Philanthropist, Banker and now photographer. The very meaning of renaissance man.

  41. Simon Heimbuchner says

    thanks alot for that inspiration! i really loved that video.

  42. kannan vb says

    "kessler KC lite crane …its just 500 bucks!!.." lolz… DIY is better.

  43. Hans Meier says

    Lots of advertising, heh?

  44. thatwasinteresting2 says

    That model is very pretty and exotic no matter what light settings.

  45. Under Crux says

    5:12     😉

  46. eveFlower101 says

    very useful thanks! 

  47. leo gaskell says

    Very thorough and informative video, but she looks so uncomfortable holding the gun! Get that finger off the trigger!

  48. Jon Sparkman says

    stop saying talent

  49. daniel workineh says

    I never thought mirrors could help like this, Thank you very much for sharing this with us!

  50. Nina Ol says

    so cool

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