It is sad that people do not appreciate your effort but the way you edited the photos. I did not have a beauty dish but even that video help me to start considering it. Thanks !

@MiguelQuilesJr

3 жыл бұрын

I appreciate that! If they miss out because they are focused on the wrong thing then it's their loss unfortunately. Happy to help those that are willing to receive it! 😁👍

@3GO3US

3 жыл бұрын

@@MiguelQuilesJr its cool, but i think the guy has a point. The key of the video is watching the raw light that you are getting shot by shot, so... If you post the edited images, you are actually "faking" the results. Thanks anyway.

@chowlokcheong9553

Жыл бұрын

go，

I like how you edit the photos after and teaching style. Great work as always.

Beautiful shots! Thanks for the demonstrations.

Stunningly beautiful model. And great lighting too of course.

Many thanks, Miguel, for a great and informative video tutorial. Loving all the versitility with the softbox/beauty dish and layerings of the backdrop. GOD bless you.

By far the most informative and understandable video I’ve watched over beauty dish techniques, thank you for this 🙌🏽

Awesome video! She say to follow and understand. Thanks for taking the time to create all of your How-To videos.

I love this series!! I am a one light shooter 45 degrees camera left, but really am trying to add more lights in!! So this helps so much :)

i love the last setup, big soft light + extra little punch. Tasty

I love beauty dishes, particularly when the client has great skin. But I've never tried pairing them with large modifiers particularly in that stacked fashion. Will definitely consider that sometime.

I love this pic with beauty dish in the back over his head. Nice separation.

Great set ups Planning to try some of these with a model today.

I use it as main , fill, hair light as well. The magic is in the distance and angle. Great demo

Thank you for giving me great advices. English is not my home language, but your clear pronunciations and clever way of explanations are quite helpful and comfortable to listen to. You are making me feel to get a new Profoto B10 and a Beauty dish.

Came from Tony Northrup channel. Extremely impressive lighting and posing. Look forward to future vidoes!

Your work is the truth!! Awesome

fantastic, to the point video with amazing results!! thank you !!

Miguel I went to Imaging USA 2022. I saw your presentation at expo. Nice. Congratulations and thank you for your recommendations.

Thank You. You opened my eyes. I am asking for a film about using BD for outdoor photos.

Cool teaching style; & thanks for the tight images. Great work, Miguel!

Love that you are back in the video world dude !!!yessss

@MiguelQuilesJr

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks! I'm definitely in it 100%. Dropping 2-3 videos a week on here as well as my 2 videos per month on Adorama TV :)

One of the best and clearest videos on lighting I have ever seen. Well done!

just found out about your youtube channel now from manny ortiz, i would say you deserve more viewers with the things that you are teaching, great job man , hope to see more videos from you :)

I love all those 5 ways of using beauty dish. Thank you so much for this awesome video which impressed me enough to hit the subscribe button. Hope to see more such videos in future.

Loved this video!! Absolutely eye opening!! :) :D

Bruh! Man thank u so much for this video! Good looking out. Phelix. 👍🏾📸

Actually Miguel the first lighting setup you used is not "clamshell lighting" it's butterfly or paramount lighting, because it generally leaves a butterfly pattern created by a shadow under the nose--which is visible in your image. Clam shell lighting is when you have two lights, a light about 45 degrees above and in front, and a light about 45 degrees under shooting up toward the model. In that case you can't use a posing table. Or you have the upper light and a reflector, in my case I use a rectangular reflector which I had made and I sit one end on the posing table and angle it upward a few degrees on the end closest to me. This removes the shadow under the nose and chin and under the eyes and leaves a nice catchlight in their eyes. If your reflector is flat it just scatters the light, and the result is not as pleasing. This works whether you're using a beauty dish or a softbox. If using softboxes I use a small strip box as my lower light and a large softbox as my upper light.

Brother you’re the best! Thank for sharing

Just started following you from video you did with Vanessa Joy, only comment would be and it’s based on Vanessa’s videos on flash work, it’s nice to see before and after so the affect of what you are doing is clearly shown to the audience.

Hey Miguel. Thank you so much for providing incredibly educational information. What I would love to see in future videos would be if you could go in-depth after each photo, and point out specifically how they have changed. And maybe include a side-by-side comparison, as well as including pros and cons of each type, when you would use each one etc. Thanks for all the great info!

@charlesstephens5974

3 жыл бұрын

I would like to know that too, I experimented with a small gridded BD in front of 12x55 , it’s the specularity of the BD that makes the kick, the power for all intents and purposes was the same.

Nice as always, Miguel... was looking for some thoughts about a larger light supplemented by a beauty dish. I'm shooting senior high prom couples - this was a nice set of options that inspires. Thank you!

Nice one Miguel ! Excellent pics editing as well, beautiful model 👍🏼

Hey Miquel, i appreciate your tutorial very much! i believe many aspiring photographer out there, like me also, surely can apreciate your work and get much information from your educative video. As far as my photography journey progressing, i see that editing as part of the process making the great image. Absolutely there is nothing wrong with editing process, as would the photographer from the film era using darkroom to process their negative roll. The problem is many normal people / non photographer would think that great image is the result of heavy editing process, but the biggest portion of making great image is actually already done in-camera. Editing is like the finishing touch, to make sure that the image result is as close as your creative vision can be.

Perfect!

Never used beauty dish on my shoots. I have to buy one and try it. Thank you for sharing

@MiguelQuilesJr

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching! My first ever light shaper when I started with off camera lighting was a beauty dish. In the right situations its an amazing thing!

@SkiRinkevicius

6 жыл бұрын

As I see this light needs a good skin for the shoot. Hope my models do not have a lot of blemishes on shoot day :D

@MiguelQuilesJr

6 жыл бұрын

This is very true. In those situations you can use a bigger light source like an octa. I'm saving that for a future video though :)

வீடியோ மிகவும் பயனுள்ளதாக இருந்தது மிக்க நன்றி இரா.மனோகர் சென்னை . Very useful video sir, I learned lot from it, looking forward more videos like this keep it up good work, thanks a lot sirbig thank you R.MANOHAR ,Chennai.

great vid,amazing images!

Great video great info

Very helpful! Thank you!

This was awesome, I'm excited to use each of these setups in my studio. I'm wondering what your power is in each of the setups on the beauty dish? Thanks so much!

Thanks! Learned so much from this video!

@MiguelQuilesJr

3 жыл бұрын

Happy to hear it! Be sure to subscribe as I have some more videos like this posting up soon 📸

Thanks I learnt something from this short and sweet video. You make that woman look good

Stunning results my man!!

@MiguelQuilesJr

6 жыл бұрын

Thank you!!

great video, #5 was pretty dope

Great video Miguel thank you for sharing. Is there a link for 5 different images, would love to take a look at catch lights closer.

stunning results.)

very creative using the octa and beauty dish

Good job team

Just wow

Great job my friend. Thnks

Such a beauty.

Mate this is really great! Thank so much. To the point, brilliant execution, inspiring. Thank you. More of those please! You're the best. And if I could have one question... what were the power ratios between those two lights? In future videos this information would be for me much more important than for example the camera settings. But best to have both :-D. And base on what do you decide when is the fill too much or bit too little? Thank you again and greetings from Prague!

Great videos Miguel

I liked ahead of time because I knew this would be good☝️

@MiguelQuilesJr

6 жыл бұрын

Thank you!!

hands down the best tutor on youtube

@MiguelQuilesJr

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the love and support!!

Hi there, thanks for sharing your knowloge with us! Have you any behind scine video showing how to use a Beauty Dish and Strip box behind the backdrop boucing into a wall or V-flat? Many thanks

Superb video Miguel!!!

@MiguelQuilesJr

6 жыл бұрын

Thank you!!

Great shots and presentation .. I wonder what the original images look like without retouching and editing.

thanks for the effort and the sharing. thumbs up.

@MiguelQuilesJr

6 жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching and supporting!

Crazy Good!

Awesome video man! thanks for sharing :)

@MiguelQuilesJr

6 жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching! I have more of these coming to the channel shortly covering some of my other light shapers 😀👍

Nice lighting, quite heavy on the Post for my liking.

similar to your beauty dish, I have the Profoto Softlight Reflector (I call it a beauty dish) - I like using it with the diffuser and eyelighter for headshots

Hey Miguel, may I know when to use HSS and when not to use? This is the part I'm always confused about...

Very informative. What is the clamp and arm you are using to hold that collapsible backdrop?

Hey Miguel, really like the 4th beauty dish configuration you showed. Would like to see you elaborate more on that setup in a video.

@timothybudiman7972

4 жыл бұрын

I mean where the beauty dish is set on the back and reflecting on a white wall towards the model's face.

Thanks for the video. Very helpful Miguel! Question on the backlit setups, both mentioned and demonstrated in the video. I noticed that you stopped down the aperture for both, down to F/11 I think while your non-backlit setups were shot wide open. Can you explain the reason behind this change in f-stop? I suspect it has to do with flare??? Please confirm. Again, thanks for another great video!

Nice video and very informational set ups, will be trying all 5 set ups. What were your light settings, I believe you only gave your camera settings.

Great, thank you. Are you editing yourself as well?

Thanks Miguel, you explain it then go right to the idea, & shoot, so we can see.

Beautiful 👏🏻👏🏻, what power of flash you used?

Selens deep hexadecagon with grid, Quick folding 90cm version ;)

Hi, On the last setup with the beauty dis in front of the large octa, what is the ratio between the octa and the beauty dish? Thank you, Ira Idelson

hey great video but i am wondering how you retouch your photos its amazing

Great shots.. please explain why shots up so close, tripod mounted require f11? Thx.. keep up the great work..

Wow. You just taught me sth new today :)

Miguel. You have to show us how you took that shoot of the purple setup. PLEASE.

The model is gorgeous. So pretty.

@HoLeeChit11

3 жыл бұрын

🤦🏼‍♂️

4:17 love the Hair Light + V Flat bounced effect here

@Chuubie

3 жыл бұрын

Question!: Would we need a beauty dish + strip box (as you wrote in the description) to do that effect? or beauty dish alone with a v flat could achieve that look?

On the 5th setup, what was the power setting on the beauty dish; the same as the soft box or did you turn up the power a little for added kick?

Miguel this was an outstanding tutorial. What were your power settings for the strobes used in this particular shoot?

Thanks for the good tipps. Although I'd like to see the pictures straight out of camera w/o post production.

Nice video - loved your work at shutterfest in 2017 when I saw you there! Quick question - once you place the diffusion screen on the beauty dish, don't you just have a soft box? Haven't you lost the focus point that that little dish inside of the beauty dish creates? thanks.

@MiguelQuilesJr

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you! Those were such good days. As for the question, it still serves to give you the look of a beauty dish, but slightly softer. You can basically turn any hard light source into a somewhat softer source by using the diffusion fabric.

Thanks!

@MiguelQuilesJr

2 жыл бұрын

You bet!

thx u! its better to show the pictures without retouch to see the actual shot with the light modifier!

Love my beauty dish :)

What background is that you're using? Both the gray one and the pink one?

This is a new tool to me but I have to ask, on most of those there is a hotspot on her left cheek. Video lighting or is it something you normally have?

Hi! hank you for the video. I am confused though..How are you keeping Shutter Speed 1/4000 and so on? Flash light images become black after 1/200th second isn't it? The Sync Seed

Thank you

@MiguelQuilesJr

6 жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching!

Do you have videos how you edit your photo like dodge and burn and skin retouch etc maybe the whole work flow

@miguelquiles im debating what lens to buy for portrait beauty photography, im not sure if to buy a 105 macro lens or a 70-300 telescopic lens. Please help me! 🙏🏻❤️

Those shots really pop

Is there somewhere we can view all 5 results with a bit of an indicator on what that setup achieved? In the video, they look mostly similar to me with some exceptions like the hair light and the use of the beauty dish in front of the octa.

@MiguelQuilesJr

6 жыл бұрын

I will be posting them up on my website in a short article, and they may possibly appear on a popular photography blog soon.

Where can you buy a huge white backdrop? At least 12F wide. Thanks

Can you use a grid on the 2ft beauty dish?

Why the heavy editing?? Post unedited shots so we can really see the outcome of each setup.

@Duphe

4 жыл бұрын

agreed. no sense in posting dodge/burn and phased pictures. have to know what the result looks like pre editing.

@wezzojm

4 жыл бұрын

@@Duphe I call bull, You can post that on Cosmo and GQ magazines. @Miguel Quiles his shots and post edits are outrageously good. Amazing

@jjmerago1

4 жыл бұрын

@@Duphe Do the work yourself, he showed you the set up and the final image ready to publish. Do be such a bitch, go to studio and do you own test.

@jjmerago1

4 жыл бұрын

Andy worry about your own work. If you spent a little time in post your work might get more than 45 likes per post.

@philindeblanc

4 жыл бұрын

Seriously, Whats the point if they are edited..Unless you show how much post that was. This was a video FAIL..sadly from Explorer of Light. More like a ProFoto commercial and a sign up to my workshop for editing lessons.

ON YOUR FIFTH WAY OF USING THE BEAUTY DISH WITH THE BIG SOFEOX, WHAT IS THE LIGHTING RATIAO BETWEEN THE TWO. GREAT INFORMATION ON THIS VIDEO , THANK YOU.....

What would be your suggestion if I'm only shooting hairstyle, should I use the Softlight Kit in clam shell position with and another 5 Degree grid only focusing on the hair from left and another kicker with grid from camera right positioned back.

@MiguelQuilesJr

6 жыл бұрын

I'd use a clamshell setup with a reflector below, and if the hair didn't have enough shine to it I'd add a small gridded light aimed at the hair only.

@KnightF3G3Bg2

6 жыл бұрын

Miguel Quiles okay got it 👍

Thanks