What’s up, everybody? My title is Sal Cincotta. Right now we’re going to cowl wonderful artwork portrait images. Earlier than we even get began, what is ok artwork images? Effectively, the reply is totally different relying on who you discuss to. For sure folks, they are saying sure components should occur for one thing to be thought-about wonderful artwork. However for others they are saying, “Effectively, because the photographer, because the inventive, you get to find out what is ok artwork images.” Effectively, that’s not very useful. On the finish of the day, that is simply my spin on what I love to do for wonderful artwork images. It’s a mix of lighting, it’s a mix of styling. However in the end, you’re the artist, you’re the photographer, and you must decide what wonderful artwork is.
Now, with all that being mentioned, I’m going to provide you some ideas and methods that I like, however some issues to contemplate right here, all of the gear that we’re utilizing, I’m going to record down within the description. So go down within the feedback of the video on YouTube and I’ll have every thing listed, as a result of I’m utilizing some new tools from Westcott that I’ve by no means used earlier than in my shoots, so I feel you’re going to love the best way it seems. For the primary mild, I’m utilizing the Mega JS Apollo by Westcott. This creates an excellent large mild supply. After which for the sunshine above, I’m utilizing the Standard Umbrella – Silver Bounce 7’ with a big diffusion cloth beneath, each using the Westcott FJ200 strobes. So we’re simply utilizing two mild sources right here, and it’s presupposed to be mushy. By the best way, with each of those mild sources, the sunshine is oblique, that means the strobe, the FJ200, is firing again into the umbrella, creating a really massive mild supply earlier than it comes straight down, versus lots of softboxes will hearth that mild immediately at your topic. Even by means of diffusion materials, it’s a a lot harsher mild.
And in order that’s one of many issues I like about this mild setup. It creates this massive mushy, mild supply. So listed here are some easy guidelines to observe.
So for the primary mild, I’ve acquired 2.83 on the meter studying. After which for the overhead mild hitting her hair, I’ve acquired 2.09. So there’s the half cease distinction between the spotlight on her hair and this massive mild supply right here off to the aspect. I do wish to get another shot of her standing with this lighting, so not a lot has modified. Then what we’re going to do is experiment, which I feel is a part of wonderful artwork, and do a double publicity.
All your cameras are arrange a little bit bit in a different way, so what I’ve finished on my digicam is about it up as a shortcut menu merchandise the place I can simply hit allow. Be sure that to check it a couple of alternative ways, so that you’ve acquired additive, common, vivid, darkish. For this explicit shot, I’m utilizing vivid and its two totally different exposures that we’re going to make use of to create one shot. And what I wish to do is get an image of her, that portrait, after which use the flowers as a backdrop to fill in sure areas. So that is experimentation. That is what being a photographer and an artist is all about, so let’s do it.
The primary body I’m going to get, none of my publicity settings change. So I’m simply going to get this good portrait of her straight up. And now your digicam’s going to provide you a way of what a part of the picture it’s going to make use of. Then I can begin overlaying and to get a way of what that’s going to appear like. So I wish to put it over the flowers, and I’m okay if a few of the flowers are literally blurry for this. And let’s see what that is going to appear like.
That’s tremendous, tremendous cool. They appear like little butterflies within the body. I may lie like a YouTuber and simply be like, “Yeah, it was simply that straightforward. Two frames, magic,” however it wasn’t. We needed to spend a little bit little bit of time testing every of the strategies, whether or not it was vivid, darkish, additive, and in order that’s the “season to style” I’m speaking about. So I needed to undergo all 4 to see which one I appreciated and we ended up on that, and now I really feel tremendous assured and simply persevering with to shoot and do tremendous cool stuff like that. And while you’re experimenting like that, the entire photographs could suck. It’s okay. That’s what I feel being an artist is all about. It’s that failure, studying from it, and rising from it.