Please explain...

Hello All,

In this video HERE the photog mentions that the light should not fall off before or slightly after the subject but should be the same right to the back of the wall. How would one meter this because as I think of it, when you bump up the power to make it to the wall it will be much brighter at the subject than the wall. or am I missing something here??

tia

tcc wrote in post #11810953
Hello All,

In this video HERE the photog mentions that the light should not fall off before or slightly after the subject but should be the same right to the back of the wall. How would one meter this because as I think of it, when you bump up the power to make it to the wall it will be much brighter at the subject than the wall. or am I missing something here??

tia

You are correct. You're not missing anything at all. Because the model is closer to the main light than the background is, she's always going to get more light than the background. The only way you're going to get the light on the background to be almost equal to the light falling on the subject is to move the light farther away so that the difference in distance between the model and the background is insignificant compared to the distance from the light to the subject, which didn't seem to be the case in the video. Maybe what he meant to say was to point the main light source so that you get as even a lighting on the background from the main light as possible.

light "falls off " quickly close to the source.. you may go from f22 to f16 within a couple of feet metering right @ the light.. but the further away from the source you are the more distance it will take for the light to "fall off".. lets say you meter f8@ 12ft.. you may keep getting an f8 reading all the way to 17ft..

read this post for a better explaination
http://www.zarias.com …rt-3-from-white-to-black/

Although I understand what he's talking about, even with my 20+ years of being a professional photographer, he's VERY CONFUSING in his explanation of lighting..... not everyone is meant to teach

The Loft Studios wrote in post #11813852
Although I understand what he's talking about, even with my 20+ years of being a professional photographer, he's VERY CONFUSING in his explanation of lighting..... not everyone is meant to teach

Zack Arias explains it pretty well. Run his stuff over 4 or 5 times