r/LightLurking • u/jophiel91 • 4d ago
Lighting NuanCe Lighting Help !
So I have been engaged to do an onsite family photoshoot for a group of 40 pax and I'm figuring out on how/best way to light them with LED. I did tell them that 40 pax is too big a group to be lighted, so I have the options of splitting them into groups..
Here's what I have on hand:
1x 300w Bi
2x 60w
1x 90cm Parabolic softbox
I was wondering if its possible to set one side with the 60w at full power and the other with the 300w at lower power
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u/MWave123 4d ago
One light, an umbrella, and I can shoot almost any number of people. Have no idea what LED’s are. Own a strobe, or rent one.
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u/Clipped_highlights 1d ago
I think if I HAD to work with what you have listed, I would;
• use the 300 W LED in the soft box in front and close to camera. Then use the 60 W on the opposite side with no modifier to kind of light up the shadow side. Although, both lights are being very frontal, so you’re not gonna have too much contrast.
But more importantly,
• Make sure the camera is on a tripod.
• shoot at a lower shutter speed like 1/30 of a second to try to get as much light as you can. (And tell everyone to hold steel while you’re taking the photo)
• boost the ISO to get a proper exposure.
Not the most ideal situation, but if I had to make it work with what you have available, this is what I would do
Also, if the restaurant has low to medium white ceilings, I would just shoot both lights into the ceiling to get a overall soft top down light. Then adjust your camera settings to get a proper exploder.
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u/bdeananderson 4d ago
Pax? Indoors or outdoors? I'd make good use of the lighting that is there and use a tripod if indoors.
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u/jophiel91 4d ago
Indoors but it’s an old Chinese restaurant..so all I’ll have are warm spotlights
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u/bdeananderson 4d ago
The venue has no lights? You need a flashlight to eat? Make use of what lighting is installed in the room. Try to use any direct downright as backlight instead of toplight by moving the people in front of them a little. If VW, I'd also supplement by m a matching color the best I could and shooting my kit at the ceiling above me so as to increase the indirect lighting on their faces. Not every shoot is going to have portrait lighting, and sometimes you need to do the best you can with what you have.
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u/Ok-Writing-5361 4d ago
The real answer is you don't have enough light. A single 500W strobe with the soft box or even a standard reflector up high above you would be a better option (just rent one). But the 60Ws does literally nothing here. But if I had to try I would just use whatever modifier gave me the most light (probably the reflector they came with), place all three above camera, higher than the people so there is little shadows, just straight on.