I have to say you have some of the best photo tutorials on KZread. Very practical and sage advice!

@DanielNortonPhotographer

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much!

Simply the best photographer. Daniel makes things easy and do not advertise gear too much but emphasise importance of lighting techniques. Thank you

@DanielNortonPhotographer

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks, Baz!

Daniel, you make it look so easy. Small light movements, slight power adjustments. TTL=get close then fine-tune. Thanks and keep making videos.

@DanielNortonPhotographer

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

Don't know how I missed this one, but watched it now. You find beautiful models. Thanks.

Thanks Daniel! I love your videos!

Thanks for the awesome 3 looks tutorials. Never knew Monica Bellucci was a portrait model.

Great video Daniel! The Beauty dish is my favorite modifier hands down. I never thought of using it for a full length shot to mimic the sun. That's going on my next to do list for the beauty dish. Thanks again for a Great tutorial!

Awesome Daniel!!! I really like Beauty Dishes and your tutorial has given me more ideas to experiment.... Thanks a lot!! great video and great teaching!!!

@DanielNortonPhotographer

3 жыл бұрын

Excellent, thanks!

This is so helpful. Thanks.

@DanielNortonPhotographer

3 жыл бұрын

Great!

Great, you definitely showed that you can get great shots with one beautydish. Nice model too! Appreciated the video!

@DanielNortonPhotographer

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

Thanks Daniel. Another great video and, I just added a beauty dish to my kit a few days ago. Looking forward to giving it a test.

@DanielNortonPhotographer

3 жыл бұрын

Excellent, let me know what you think!

Love all this videos that show what one can do with one light source! Daniel Norton maybe in the future it will be nice to see how to go about using the one light source but in a full body shot(head to toe). Thanks ADORAMA for having all these great content on your channel in order to have a better idea when one shops at your business!

@DanielNortonPhotographer

3 жыл бұрын

Great idea!

@alexanderpons9246

3 жыл бұрын

@@DanielNortonPhotographer Thanks for your comment Daniel Norton! However just watched another On Set episode you did a year ago in which you shot using a 5 foot Octagon as a light source and you did a full body shot. Anyway, we learn so much from these great videos through the ADORAMA channel!

Great Video!!

Excellent, Daniel and Larena! (To me, that's the signature "Daniel Norton look".)

@DanielNortonPhotographer

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks, Mike!

Great stuff, yet again

That was so helpful. Thank you very much.

Informative, entertaining and educational. No beauty dish in my arsenal yet. Thanks Daniel and Larena

@DanielNortonPhotographer

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

this has been very inspirational.

@DanielNortonPhotographer

3 жыл бұрын

Awesome

Thanks, great video. Nice to see you back on a Canon 😊.

@DanielNortonPhotographer

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

Nice work Daniel 👌🏾

Wonderful video Daniel.

@DanielNortonPhotographer

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

Very useful!

Good tips, Daniel. I will try out these methods on the next shoot.

@DanielNortonPhotographer

3 жыл бұрын

Excellent

Cool vid! Thanks!

@DanielNortonPhotographer

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching!

Thanks Adaroma

Awesome

Great video, actually the best I’ve seen from Daniel.

@DanielNortonPhotographer

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks!!

Thank you again for the great video! I'm trying to decide which grid to get. I saw one from adorama. It's for Glow 22" silver beauty dish. There is 40, 30, and 20 degree grids. Can you recommend which grid will be most useful? Thank you.

Very informative and simple to follow. Also, Larena kind of looks like Kate Winslet in this shoot! :)

@DanielNortonPhotographer

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks! Oh yes, I can see that.

I liked the fact you shot with Canon again 😇

@DanielNortonPhotographer

3 жыл бұрын

I've had some requests :) I use the camera quite a bit, just turns out I wasn't using it on video shoots.

Great as always Daniel, sorry for the gear question but where is the stainless boom arm with the rotating head from been looking for one for my rolling stand thanks again, your content has really helped me this past year

@NH4Ukraine2

3 жыл бұрын

jimmy lee I’d like to know that myself.

Great tutorial Daniel and awesome work Larena. What happened to the Brooklyn reflector?

Hi Daniel, I bought my first beauty dish , it's a 50cm silver Bowens mount...I'm planning to use it with constant lighting for video interviews etc. but I notice that around the edges of the light, it casts a distinct ring shadow ( perhaps caused by the fold around the inside edge of the bowl ) the light doesn't fall off to the edges cleanly like a fresnel lens produces...I don't want to eliminate that shadow by using a diffusion cloth because I like the hard quality of the silver bowl...do you have any suggestions? should I look for a bowl that doesn't fold in at the end? does a white beauty dish also creates that ring shadow? Thanks!

Thank you for this in depth video. I especially like the first and last way of shooting. Not the second one because you had two lights showing in her eyes which for me didn’t felt natural. The second light came from the silver reflector and showed below her eyeball. But as mentioned, thank you for this in depth video. Just a request can you show a more home style way of getting great professional light, also with shooting with a Fujifilm camera like the x series? Thanks, Michael

Daniel, really good to see you work with harder, more interesting lighting in this video. I noticed something and I'm not one to usually comment on youtube videos. Your images popping up were inconsistent in exposure shot to shot. I've used legacy Profoto in my studio for some time (B4, D4) and really depend on their shot-to-shot consistency (it's a substantial factor why I use Profoto). I'm thinking this inconsistency may be due to Profoto's new direction of more consumer or pro-lite lighting, which you were using. Anyway, I'm not intending to critique anything, I like your lighting, I just wanted to point out what I observed.

@DanielNortonPhotographer

3 жыл бұрын

This was caused by the fact that I had the strobes set to TTL, thus it was "re-metering" with every frame. If you noticed, when I switched to manual, the exposure normalized. Having been a Profoto user for many years, I can say that they are just as consistent now as they ever have been in my experience.

great stuff enjoyed this - wonder whether using a strobe or speedlight without modifier is closer to look of sun in your view or better to add some sort of modifier like a reflector to avoid too mauch harshness but still retain the punch with defined shadows

@DanielNortonPhotographer

3 жыл бұрын

The main issue with just using a bare strobe or speedlight is that it will not be even and sunlight tends to fall evenly

@johnleighdesigns

3 жыл бұрын

@@DanielNortonPhotographer great point i hadnt considred this many thanks!

Great video what lens do you use? 50? thanks

Hi Daniel Ive been binge re-watching your amazing onSet shoots and one item burning in my mind in case you might respond! For reasons of space and travelling light for location shoots Ive only ever been using speedlites but I do wonder in your wisdom and experience whether apart from strobes having more power, faster recycling etc if there is any difference in actual light quality once a strobe or speedlite is using a modifer like umbrella or softbox ? Thanks so much !

@DanielNortonPhotographer

3 жыл бұрын

Like most things, that depends. If it's a very small softbox for instance and your speedlight does not have a wide/even spread it may be different, but I would say in most cases the actual quality of light from a good speedlight is the same as a good strobe when going through the same modifier.

@secretstudio7974

3 жыл бұрын

@@DanielNortonPhotographer awesome thanks really appreciate your insights as I strive to create pro level photos on my budget and build potential new career direction

Dear Daniel, first of all: thank you so much for your great content. It is always a pleasure to check out you content. Without being cheesy I can tell that I saw them all so far :P I have a question: where do I find (or how is that thing called) that "joint" you are using to connect the flash with beauty dish on the c-stand arm, as seen here from minute 5? I really appreciate your help. Kind regards from Germany :)

@largodesign

3 жыл бұрын

Daniel? :)

adding the soch (silver beauty + grid) what kind of effect I will have?

Daniel, great video as always from you. I don’t have a beauty dish but I plan to use a small octa by Elinchrom and not add any of the diffuser panels but, I do have their different coloured discs that you can insert in the body of the light, which looks similar to the disc you have in the middle of a beauty dish. Do you think this will give a close match to an actual beauty dish?

@DanielNortonPhotographer

3 жыл бұрын

In my experience, the "soft" type beauty dishes and small octa-softboxes create a cool look that in some ways can be compared to a "true" beauty dish but are not exactly the same, even in the case where deflectors are available. That being said, give it a shot and compare the difference for yourself, it's a fun experiment... And let me know what you like!

@Bob-Horse

3 жыл бұрын

Daniel Norton Photographer - thanks very much Daniel.

Great video as always. Why do you dial down the flash in the camera rather then lower the power setting on the trigger?

@DanielNortonPhotographer

3 жыл бұрын

When using a single light the Profoto TTL system prefers you do it that way.

Daniel, I'm new to portrait photography and have a question. Why do you switch from TTL to manual during a series of shots? Thanks.

@DanielNortonPhotographer

3 жыл бұрын

TTL metering will make adjustments for each frame you shoot, and since it is based on the reflected meter in the camera. They can sometimes be a little inconsistent, so switching to manual gives me consistency

What’s the arm you’re using on the dish that gets it to tilt and move like that?

You're using a canon 5D mark iv and an 85 mm 1.2?

what's the ball head at the end of the arm onto which the light is mounted, please? Thanks.

@merkin22

3 жыл бұрын

Never mind, found it in the list of products. My bad. Good video, as usual, by the way.

What kind of reflector is that? And where to buy?

I tuned in expecting Daniel Norton and I got Darth Vader instead. 🤣 (Thanks Dr Fauci)

Question, please...I own a "Glow" 32 or 36 inch collapsible beauty dish with a grid. It is NOT the hard metal one as you show. Can this "dish" in theory, give me similar results or can your looks be accomplished by having the huge metal beauty dish?? (Thanks!)

@DanielNortonPhotographer

3 жыл бұрын

In my experience, the "soft" type beauty dishes create a cool look that in some ways can be compared to a "true" beauty dish but are not exactly the same, even in the case where deflectors are available. In addition, your modifiers are larger so will be a bit softer in general (The Profoto dish is 22 inches), that being said, give this a shot and see how it works out, I'd love to see the results.

What white balance was u use?

🙂👍

@DanielNortonPhotographer

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

May I know the brand and model of the tripod he is using in this shoot?

@dunnymonster

3 жыл бұрын

Looks like a Manfrotto MT055XPRO3 to me 😉

@DanielNortonPhotographer

3 жыл бұрын

@@dunnymonster That's correct!

What size is the beauty dish?

I think Daniel likes Kate Moss 😊

@DanielNortonPhotographer

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, yes I do

you made me shift my career Daniel..

Model IG ? great video

@DanielNortonPhotographer

3 жыл бұрын

In the description

She looks like Saoirse Ronan a little bit... :)

Where is Daniel's nikon?

@DanielNortonPhotographer

3 жыл бұрын

In my bag :)

@sauravpradhan7881

3 жыл бұрын

Next time please use it :)

@ShutterManAce

3 жыл бұрын

Honestly, who cares. Why are people so fascinated with what people use to shoot? I just don't get it. Every camera sold today blows aways my old Nikon D700 out of the water and I took some amazing photos with that camera. It doesn't matter. Whatever a photographer prefers to shoot is the best camera for them period.

I haven't used my beauty dish in years - But then again most of the people I shoot don't have great skin like your model...

@DanielNortonPhotographer

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, it is a bit punchy for some subjects

This is not a result of one light. You should mention fill light sources as well. Otherwise it's misleading.

I guess that I'm missing something. I think the light is too hard and doesn't flatter her at all. That shine exaggerates her forehead and IMHO, it's not very flattering at all.

@DanielNortonPhotographer

3 жыл бұрын

Not every style of lighting is for everyone.

A mask with an exhaust valve does not filter the air you breathe out. Such a mask therefore doesn't protect others in case you have an asymptomatic infection. It's kind of "asocial" to wear such a mask. Be considerate of the health of your model, and wear masks without valves.

@DanielNortonPhotographer

3 жыл бұрын

As it turns out, I have added an additional 2.5 filter inside the mask to prevent such things, but it's good to know we have you out here protecting the public with your assumptions.

Wow, her skin look absolutely beautiful, but what about those shadows on the backdrop.........that's a lot of work to take them out......but the beauty dish is doing a beautiful job

That mask is useless, you know? It gives little protection to you and no protection to the ones around you. Those exhaust valves would expel any particles right out without a filter!

@DanielNortonPhotographer

3 жыл бұрын

I have added an additional internal filter, but thanks for commenting and making assumptions