Hey..! What's up everybody? Miguel Quiles
here, and in this episode of the
breakdown
this is the 1 year anniversary of The
Breakdown here on AdoramaTV, and the very
first video that I did for Adorama was a
beauty photography episode, and so I
decided that I wanted to revisit the
beauty photography category and show you
guys, another really awesome way to shoot
beauty photography in the studio.
Welcome back to The Breakdown, I'm Miguel
Quiles, and once again I'm here in the
studio, with my model Noel, and we're
going to take some Beauty Shots, and we
actually did a video way back in the day!
A year ago, on beauty photography so if you
haven't looked at that video definitely
go check that one out, but I'm going to
show you another method, another way, of
taking some really awesome beauty shots
in the studio. And again this is going to
be using one light just like we did in
that first video, but we're going to do
it with a different modifier, and so I'm
gonna show you guys, back here I have the
Profoto D1 this is the 1000 watt studio
strobe and this particular model for
this particular light, the reason why I'm
using it is that I'm actually going to
shoot these beauty shots at f/16, and so
for a lot of people they don't
understand.. Why would you shoot this
f/16? And the main reason is that I
want to be able to capture a lot of
texture in the image, because beauty
photography is about the makeup, it's
about the face, and obviously it's about
beauty, or also wouldn't call it that but
it's really important to capture the
texture, and the detail, and the sharpness
and a person's skin, and there's a lot of
ways to do that, and one of the ways is
to actually shoot at a higher f-stop. So
shooting at like a 14 maybe even as high
as f/22 be able to maximize the depth of
field, so that the tip of her nose, all
the way to the back of her head, is fully
sharp, fully in focus, so we're gonna
shoot these a f/16, and in order to
do that, you need a studio strobe that
gives you a lot of power, and gives you a
lot of kick, if you have a strobe that's
in the 5 to 600 watts of power, you might
be able to get to f/16, but the
challenge is going to be that, you have
to have your power on your strobe all
the way up, and so that is going to limit
the amount of pops that you're going to
be able to get within a certain period
of time, so for example the refresh rate
on a five or 600 watt studio strobe,
you'll be waiting for maybe a few
seconds for the light to recharge to
give you another pop, with a 1000 watt
studio strobe, you could sit there and
not shoot at full power, still
be able to shoot at f/16 and basically
make your life super, super easy, so
that's why we're using the Profoto D1
the 1000 watt head. I have a silver
bounce umbrella behind, that's going to
be the only modifier, the only light
shaping tool that we're going to use.
I chose the silver umbrella because I
wanted it to be very specular and very
reflective they have these umbrellas
with white if you would have used that
it would have had a little bit less
specularity and the highlights meaning
that the highlights on her face would
not be as bright and shiny and for
makeup I really want to capture a lot of
sharpness and detail, and the silver on
the inside of the umbrella, really, really
helps with that. The last thing that
we're going to do, is I have a small
silver reflector right below, this is
made by Rogue, and I'll put the link in
the description for this particular
product, and this is basically just going
to go ahead and give her a nice little
catch-light, on the bottom of her eyes,
just to kind of bring a little bit of
attention and drama to her eyes. So
that's it! That's our entire setup, and
I'll go ahead, and I'll show you the rest
of the gear that I'm using to take the
shots..
Alright, so, as you can see she's standing
very, very close to the reflector,
and part of the reason that I'm doing
that, is that I really want this
reflector here to basically fill in a
lot of the shadows underneath the jaw-
line, and also to be able to provide the
catch-light on the lower part of her eye.
So, if this was a little bit lower - you
wouldn't actually see the reflection of
the catch-light in the lower part of her eye.
So I raised it up high enough to where
I can start to see that. For the
background you can use any black
background to replicate this type of
shot. I use the collapsible backdrops
from Savage, and again you see them in
all of my videos. I love using them,
this particular one is black on one side,
white on the other. For a lot of people
that are getting started in studio
photography they'll ask me what kind of
backdrop so I recommend, and I love these
backdrops from savage because I use them
all the time, they're super versatile,
black on one side, white on the other.
The white side if you bring the model away
from the background will actually serve
as a great backdrop - so it's super
versatile. You can basically get white,
black, and gray, out of one backdrop which
gives you a lot of value. So that's what
we're looking at right now for the
background, and for the reflector from
below, and so with that being said, let's
talk about the camera and the lens, and
the rest of the stuff that I'll be using.
Alright, so for this shoot I'm going to
be using the sony a7II, which again is a
full-frame, mirrorless camera. I have it
paired with the Sony 90mm 2.8 G
Series lens. This is a macro lens, and for
beauty photography, again, with texture
and detail being the thing that you're
really looking to capture in a close-up
beauty portrait .The macro lens allows
you to do a couple of different things.
First, it's extremely sharp, so you're going
to be able to capture the texture and
detail of the makeup, and the skin, and
everything else in the shot. The other
added benefit to using a macro, is the
minimum focus distance for the lens. I
can actually get very close to her face
to capture all of that texture and
detail and still get the lens to focus
correctly. If i was using an 85mm
lens, for example, to shoot this, it would
still look very good, but it would not be
as sharp, number one, and number two I
couldn't compose the shot the exact same
way, because the minimum focus distance
is usually a little bit different to
where I actually have to back away from
the subject to be able to photograph
them, so, that's why I have these two
things paired up. The other thing that
I'm using, that is super essential, is the
battery grip for these cameras, which
basically allows me to be able to hold
the camera comfortably to take these
portraits in a beauty orientation. They
hold two batteries inside of them, and
they are super, super, useful for shooting
portraits with the Sony mirrorless
cameras. Now let's go ahead, and take a
look at the tethered set up, so you can
get an idea of what I'm using there. OK,
so let's talk about the tethered setup
here. I am actually tethering, using the new
the surface book, this is the surface
book from Microsoft, with the performance
base, and I really like this particular
tablet because when I'm shooting on the go,
I can actually retouch on this tablet
using the pen that is included, so it's
pretty awesome, if I'm out on the go and
I want to do a quick retouch, I'm
actually able to do that, because the pen
is included with this particular tablet
/ computer / just awesome machine. For
the tethering cable, I'm using a tether
tools orange USB cable, and part of the
reason why I chose the orange one,
because for the longest time I had a
black teather tools cable, and I started
to notice is that it kind of blends in
with other stuff that's on the floor, and
models and makeup artists and everybody
else's onset, they can see when there's a
orange cable kind of running across the
studio so i decided to use the orange
one, to get a lot less people tripping on
it, and kicking it, and all that good
stuff, so tether tools cable, microsoft
surface, and I'm actually tethering using
capture one. this is Capture One Pro 9
which is actually the older version, they
have since updated to version 10, but
fantastic software, very easy basically,
just plug in the USB cable, plug it into
your camera, and turn on your camera, and
it's ready to go.
So that's our setup for camera, or
tethering and let's go ahead and start
shooting
Alright, so let's talk about the settings
that I'm using here, as I mentioned,
before, I want to shoot these at a high
f-stop, so I'm actually shooting this at
f/16 1/60th of a second, ISO 100,
and with those particular settings,
without the strobing on, it's overpowering
the ambient light that's in the room, so
that way this light is not actually
affecting the shot, the only thing that's
affecting the shot is this
Profoto D1 head that I have here, next to
me I'm actually triggering these using
the Phottix ears triggers, these are
basic triggers, that work with any brand,
any camera, any strobe. They plug-,in with
a little cable. So Profoto actually makes
a trigger,
actually works with this wirelessly,
which is pretty nice, but I wanted to
show you guys that you can actually use
whatever triggers that you wanted to use,
with whatever lights it is that you have
and you can make this work.
So without being said, just go ahead and
let's keep shooting.
Very nice, excellent, perfect, nice.
So as I am shooting this, I had mentioned earlier
that the minimum focus distance was
something that was a big advantage for
using this particular lens, and if this
was an 85mm lens, or a standard
portrait lens, I wouldn't be able to
stand this close to be able to fill the
frame with just her face, I'd have to
stand quite a bit farther away. The
lighting setup would be different, the
quality of light would be different, so
that's part of the benefit of using a
macro for shots like this. I could
actually even kind of reach over this
way, and I could get really close, and
still be able to focus, and still get
shots that are razor sharp, and detailed,
and in focus, which is pretty awesome
Keep shooting a few close-ups like this.. nice..
Perfect.. and one of the questions that
I got when I did the first beauty video,
people were asking about blocking the
light, and I think this is kind of a big
misconception with people when it comes
to off-camera flash, that if you're
standing in front of the light
you're blocking the light somehow, and
it's not getting to the model! Obviously
you can see that it is lighting the
model, even though I'm standing here, but
because of the size of this modifier in
relation to myself, the light actually
wraps around me, and still illuminates
the model. It's not casting any type of
shadow on her, because I'm so small in
comparison to the size of this huge, huge
modifier behind me, so don't worry about
having a shadow being cast on your
subject, so long as the size of your
modifier is much bigger and larger than
you are....
....you're good to go!
Alright folks, so there you have it. Very
very easy one light setup for you to be
able to take beauty shots in the studio,
and one of the things that I didn't
mention, is the importance of having a
makeup artist on set for doing these
types of shots, without the makeup artist
it would be very difficult to take these
types of shots, so fortunately I have a
really awesome makeup artist. I have Sam
here, and so where can they find you on
Instagram to follow your work - it's
@samanthapaige_mua
p a i g e.... so I'll make sure I put
that in the description as well, noel,
how can they find you? I'm on Instagram
@noely1224
That's it, just one l, that's it? Ok
cool, super nice and easy, you can find me
on instagram as well at @miguelquilesjr
Make sure you follow everybody
here, we post a lot of different work
online as well, but anyway with that
being said thank you so much for
watching. Make sure you subscribe to
AdoramaTV, while you're here.
It's been one year of The Breakdown and
I'm really excited to put out some new
videos for you guys, with a lot of new
information, new tutorials. We're going to
do video stuff, we're going to just go all
over the place with these new tutorials!
It's going to be a lot of fun! Hope you
guys enjoyed this one! Make sure that you
go to the Adorama Learning Center as
well there's a lot of articles and a lot
of great videos there, as well thank you
guys so much for watching The Breakdown
THank you for all of the support, it's
been one year, I'm looking forward to
many, many, more!
Thank you, thank you, thank you, and I will
see you guys in the next episode.
Bye everybody!
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