How was this shot lit? A new challenge

LJR.
It isn't a honeycomb grid but you're right about the position/placement and the light is basically similar to a honeycomb, so a good answer.

Jay, it isn't a reflective umbrella and it isn't close to the model - if it was, the shadows would be much less clearly defined.

The position of the shadow, and the absence of a catchlight in the eyes indicate that the light was very high. The way that the light loses intensity towards the edges gives a very clear clue to the type of light used...
 
Beauty dish? :shrug: Not sure what you can use that gives a similar effect to a honeycomb without actully being one. However, I admit I am struggling to see this intensity loss at the edges, if someone could explain what I should be looking at :help:


Oh and Garry, could you shrink the image a bit pretty please ;)
 
Garry Edwards said:
LJR.
It isn't a honeycomb grid but you're right about the position/placement and the light is basically similar to a honeycomb, so a good answer.

Jay, it isn't a reflective umbrella and it isn't close to the model - if it was, the shadows would be much less clearly defined.

The position of the shadow, and the absence of a catchlight in the eyes indicate that the light was very high. The way that the light loses intensity towards the edges gives a very clear clue to the type of light used...
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Hmm...okay then I'm going to refine my answer and say it's a strobe fitted with a snoot. Possibly a spotlight. Seems to be quite a hard light.
 
Yv said:
However, I admit I am struggling to see this intensity loss at the edges, if someone could explain what I should be looking at :help:
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You can see that the light doesn't wrap around at all, the light isn't illuminating the sides of her face - agreed?
And yet her hair is lit, which indicates that the light doesn't end at the edges of her face, it's still there but at a lower level.

I've got to admit that although the lighting itself is simple, the lighting tool is fairly unusual and people may struggle to identify it. Doesn't matter if it provokes thought and discussion, which is what this thread is about...
 
its not a softbox or a strip box thing with a grid on is it:shrug:
 
My guess is a perhaps lit through a Fresnel lens, never used one though so not really sure how the light falls off from them.
 
EdBray said:
My guess is a perhaps lit through a Fresnel lens, never used one though so not really sure how the light falls off from them.
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:clap::clap::clap:
Your turn Ed.
Hang on a minute, it was your turn anyway...
 
what is a fresnal lens???:thinking:
 
Garry Edwards said:
You can see that the light doesn't wrap around at all, the light isn't illuminating the sides of her face - agreed?
And yet her hair is lit, which indicates that the light doesn't end at the edges of her face, it's still there but at a lower level.

I've got to admit that although the lighting itself is simple, the lighting tool is fairly unusual and people may struggle to identify it. Doesn't matter if it provokes thought and discussion, which is what this thread is about...
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ah ok thanks for that, still got plenty to learn. :thumbs:
 
Why don't we make it so that anyone can post a shot, but we can only have one active at any one time? This thread is very useful for new 'lighters' like me.
 
LJR said:
Why don't we make it so that anyone can post a shot, but we can only have one active at any one time? This thread is very useful for new 'lighters' like me.
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Sounds good to me. The reason that I originally suggested that the 'winner' becomes the next person to post a shot was to encourage people to take part, perhaps I should have realised that not everyone has suitable shots to post, or the time to produce them quickly.

But if this thread becomes more useful by allowing anyone to post their shot once someone has come up with the correct answer on the previous photo, then that has to be a good thing.
 
LJR said:
Why don't we make it so that anyone can post a shot, but we can only have one active at any one time? This thread is very useful for new 'lighters' like me.
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As the 'winner' (if that is the word) of a few of these, I do not always have the time or the models to take something a little different in order to challenge the knowledge of the other participants.

So, I agree, but with a caveat, that the person who posts the result perhaps gets 24 hours to post one of his own (time to discover he was correct and sort out an image), after which time it becomes open to all.

And I agree, It would be better being kept to one open image at a time.
 
edbray i have a image ready if you dont mind . i would like to know if people can guess the lighting..


md:shrug:
 
cheers buddy:thumbs:

Ok guys have a good look at this one ;)


canon_1ds_web.jpg



md;)
 
im gonna start with 4 lights...

and is that reflection added after, it seems a slightly awkward angle
 
EdBray said:
So, I agree, but with a caveat, that the person who posts the result perhaps gets 24 hours to post one of his own (time to discover he was correct and sort out an image), after which time it becomes open to all.
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Perfect!

..MD.. said:
cheers buddy:thumbs:

Ok guys have a good look at this one ;)


md;)
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Goodness. This is tough (for me at least). I'll start the ball rolling though and in my simple peddler-of-tin world I'm going with a single spot placed directly in front of the product. Or a standard flash head with maybe Barn Doors?
 
fletch5 said:
im gonna start with 4 lights...

and is that reflection added after, it seems a slightly awkward angle
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LJR said:
Perfect!

Goodness. This is tough (for me at least). I'll start the ball rolling though and in my simple peddler-of-tin world I'm going with a single spot placed directly in front of the product. Or a standard flash head with maybe Barn Doors?
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:nono: to both...;)

md:thumbs:
 
ok, my guess. Its obviously on a refelctive surface, I think there is a light to the rear and rhs [as you look] point back towards the camera [the one in the pic and at an angle to the one taking the shot], possibly either honeycombed or snooted [or maybe both] and a similarly limited light to left of both cameras and low down, at lens level [subjects lens, not shooting lens] and in front of the subject. Jeeez, hope yu understand that, a diagram might be easier :lol:
 
with this shot yv it maybe easier to make a diagram of where you think it is being lt from...

if you look all around the photo and try and think where the light is coming from you will be supprised ;)

look at all angles:thumbs:


md;)

so far yv is closest
 
..MD.. said:
with this shot yv it maybe easier to make a diagram of where you think it is being lt from...

if you look all around the photo and try and think where the light is coming from you will be supprised ;)

look at all angles:thumbs:


md;)

so far yv is closest
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I would if knew how to do 3D diagrams :bonk:

Actually, I think you have wrapped it in a colander and soaked THAT in light :lol:


Off for another think about the light on the top lcd....
 
ok, gonna go totally freaky here - have you lit it with bunch of torches? Let me explain, I can see light apparently coming from at least 4 directions and the spread is very limited. Seems to be the two directions I said originally, plus some from on or around the shooting camera and another directly above the lcd..... or maybe a long exposure and flashed a snooted flashgun at it manually several times from different directions? :shrug:

my brain hurts, can I retire now please? :nuts: :lol:
 
you may retire now :thumbs:


and well done :clap:



1 torch / long exposure :thumbs:

lots of different angles:clap:

well worked out yvonne:wave:


md;)
 
b****r, Too slow!

I've just set up the shot, and I needed to light it with 5 mini maglites to get a similar effect (okay I just used one mini maglite) but aimed it at 5 different places.

One aimed 3/4 rear LHS mid camera (lights LH rear edge of body) , one aimed 3/4 rear RHS high pointing down (lighting the LCD screen), one straight left (lighting the grip and a little of the top of the lens barrel), one directly above (aimed at the lens barrel with some spill lighting the name on the front of the pentaprism), and the last aimed into the lens just slightly higher than the middle of the lens (which hides the reflection of the light source in the front element under the lenshood, but it shows in the reflection on the polished surface as the tilt shows what is under the lenshood).

Good effort though, and it made us think!
 
:( sorry guys, I have so few 'lit' shots atm I havent got anything you wouldnt guess in something less than a nanosecond. I might have bash something I am thinking of [its a more advanced version of something I have already done] in the morning but if I dont get chance, will posts asap so someone else can jump in.
 
Yv said:
anyone else wanna take a go, haven't had time to blow my nose yet today :bonk:
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Yep, I've shot one especially for this thread.

So, how was it lit?

As shot other than a small crop and a lttle sharpening!

jug.jpg
 
:thinking: Might as well have ago. is it one softbox to the left of the subject " as we look at it" about 4' off the ground.

md:thumbs:

shot onto a white roll of paper
 
..MD.. said:
:thinking: Might as well have ago. is it one softbox to the left of the subject " as we look at it" about 4' off the ground.

md:thumbs:

shot onto a white roll of paper
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No sorry, not even close :nono:
 
one light, far left(togs left)to light background and give the dark corners on the right, 2nd light front left, lighting object, not sure on modifiers yet, but anywhere near?
 
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