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This is a short excerpt from the 14 hour long wedding tutorial: How To Become A Professional Commercial Wedding Photographer. In this excerpt Lee Morris shows how he uses a single Profoto D1 to light family posed pictures in 3 different churches. For more info on the full tutorial visit
Thank you!
please stop doing that to your eyebrows. cleaner smoother skin on your eyebrow bridge than peter norths gooch.
Hey Lee, do you still do this method?
How are you possibly getting permission to use artificial light in a church? That NEVER happens where I operate.
How do you light a church sanctuary when the ceiling is dark wood?
wow
Wow! Dr. Phil story about a family molestation and wedding photography in the same playlist! 10/10 would watch again.
do you use this for the reception too?
Any tips for a dark ceremony.
3:07 it seems dumb to have a 1/100th shutter speed if the whole shot is 90% exposed with the studio strobe. Go to 1/160 or 1/180 or 1/200 — whatever the sync-speed of the strobe is.
Good
he forgot a key element
thanks for the video.. what do you think about using ad360ll for the same use?
Could I do this on a Nikon 5200 camera
how many watts i need for that?? Thank you
Awesome !
wow nice capture
sorry did u just use only ine lighting mobile profoto ya sir?
where did u put the position of your one lighting?
what lens did u use?
is these use batt pack mobile ya for your profoto?
good gaidline thanks
What about a night wedding? Same setting?
I bought the DVD. Its like 14 hours of viewing but its full of great info! I have used so much from that tutorial and its improved my wedding product and I've increased my billing by almost 100%!!
Really educative and nice.
4:57 beautiful shot
i have an opportunity to buy a 400w/s studio strobe but its a no name brand. can i expect it to put out almost half as much as the 1000w/s profoto monoblock you used in this church? Another words in therms of power 400w/s strobes all have the same light power output more or less?
nice thanks for tips, unfortunately i wanna have a camera a dslr but cant afford it, i realy love photography
"Bouncing off wood will not work." I think he meant to say "bouncing off DARK colored wood will not work." Its not necessarily the composition of material, but the color of it that allows reflection. However, overall good tips and I'm sure the DVD is worth it.
i have a question about your light position. why u never point light to back of Church room? i guess it will bounce right back in to front, is it?
Videographer tip — bad audio is distracting. Mic interference in the one interview. Otherwise, thanks for the tips and info. Good work.
what if the churches interior is all made of stone?
If I understand correctly, you used F5; 1/100th/ ISO 100? Question: How did you manage to place a large group with such a small aperture? Doesn't the outside perimeter of the picture get "blurry" with such small apertures? I see they're all clear, with three rows of people. I'm surprised but amazed if F5 was your setting.
I would simply go to ISO 400 instead of ISO 125 and use much sharper aperture such as 6.4 or 7.1 F, and saved some battery for the flashes too.
what are the same lights you mentioned here? can you write them here?
What kind of strobe should I get to light up a church like the second one he filmed at where the ceiling is high yet I can use the walls? Would a 600W be good enough?
Great tip, just need money to buy the stuff😄
Really educative.Thanks
I like this guys approach.. I actually do the opposite with the large umbrellas.. usually only using one for small groups of people and adding in the 2nd light when i need to do large groups. i.e. a very large wedding party. i tend to keep the lights closer to me than away, so its a little more direct, eliminating those dramatic shadows. and of course you can always move the light over to the left (or right) side to obtain those dramatic shadows.. I use umbrellas over soft boxes for better spread of light, and usually always shoot through them. depending on the chapel i use a slightly slow shutter speed of about 1/50 and iso of about 800, esp if I'm using a speed light and don't want to kill my battery and recycle times.. usually the speed light is set to about 1/8 power.. and of course slightly adjusting if more people come into the frame. wish i could post shots on here to show examples..Â
How would I be able to get multiple rows of people in focus to be sharp? Like during one of the photo shoots I went to was a baptismal and the group that came was a lot of people, around 15 of them. I lined most of them as much as I could to get in the frame and used a wide angle focal length which was 18mm. it caused the 3rd and 4th row to be in the fallback of the DOF.