I've been learning a lot from Karl's videos and his great educational website! Thank you so much Karl! God bless you and your great team!

I remember spent my days during pandemic watching Karl Taylor's videos

I promised myself I would NEVER watch another one light portrait set up video on KZread! I’m glad I broke that rule for this one! Great stuff! And as someone who often shoots headshots/portraits at events in very small spaces, this has given me some fresh ideas! Thank you 🙏🏼

THIS video itself, is the basis for understanding lightning fundamentals!!! Great great video, thank you!

Thank you Karl for sharing precious knowledge & experience. I picked up photography during pandemic and took your lighting courses. I keep practicing and now I am a professional photographer. Thank you.

Nicely done, one of the few on KZread who know what they're talking about!

Thank you always helping when you think you don't have enough gear

Amazing video , thank you

I keep wanting to subscribe to watch more in-depth videos like these and learn more, but I'm always so busy, I hope I can take your course soon as it's one of the most informative channels on KZread I've ever seen. Follow up video suggestion to this video, maybe a 1-2 lighting set up in a non-studio space like at home, office space, etc would be a nice continuation to this video.

@VisualEducationStudio

Ай бұрын

Thank you for watching and we hope you can join us at Visual Education where we do have lots of 1-2 light setups in a studio and on location, including how to photograph people in their work places and the complications associated with that.

Your team and studio is the best I have ever seen, my favorite teacher, thank you for sharing your passion!

@VisualEducationStudio

Ай бұрын

Thanks for watching

Karl is a brilliant photographer ❤

well that was 100 percent the most informative studio lighting video I've ever watched! thanks for the awesome tutorial!!!! I learned a ton!

Extremely useful and informative video tutorial Karl.

Very nice explained, Visual Education is TOP !

I am going to say this... Best Lighting Video by K.T.!

@VisualEducationStudio

Ай бұрын

Appreciate that

Every time I come here I learn something new. Tomorrow I am gonna try the *one bare bulb lighting* from behind the photographer. Thanks Karl for the great tips. Love from India.

@user-ww3by4mf8j

18 күн бұрын

How did it go?

Karl, I love what you do with light. This is very informative. Thank you for sharing 👏👏👏👏

@VisualEducationStudio

Ай бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

Lives up to the words on the tin... visual education... well and truly.

@VisualEducationStudio

Ай бұрын

Thank you, and glad we're living up to our name! :)

This is brilliant. Thank you

Your presentation is informative. Thank you!

Karl....excelente video, muchas gracias por compartir e impartir tus conocimientos y mostrarlos de forma tan simple. Saludos

@VisualEducationStudio

Ай бұрын

thank you

Very good practice and examples for the theory of studio lighting, thanks Karl.

@VisualEducationStudio

Ай бұрын

Pleasure

Very good information my friend. I love your teaching videos.

Thank you so much Karl for the very informative lighting tutorial! Learnt a lot! Good luck!

@VisualEducationStudio

Ай бұрын

My pleasure!

Wonderful.

Divinity by simplicity Excellent video Karl Thanks for sharing

@VisualEducationStudio

Ай бұрын

Many thanks

From Bogotá D.C always following your material. Thank you Carl!

@VisualEducationStudio

Ай бұрын

You are very welcome.

Amazing results

@VisualEducationStudio

Ай бұрын

Thank you

Fantastic experimentation! After similar experiments in my studio I settled on a large lantern and a fresnel in front of it for a two light setup with "one" light source. Often I added a hair and shoulders light.

Thanks for the tips. Awesome!!

@VisualEducationStudio

Ай бұрын

No problem!

wow. This video is gold knowledge. Thank you!

@VisualEducationStudio

Ай бұрын

My pleasure!

One thing the DIY and budget minded photographer can do is wander through a hardware store, crafts store, even a dollar store, looking at any particular item and asking oneself, “how can I use this in photography?” For example I once found a solar shield for a car windshield at a dollar store that works great as a silver bounce reflector.

@ytucharliesierra

Ай бұрын

A piece of solid cardboard with one layer of aluminium foil and another layer of white baking paper on top of that. Done with the new reflector.

Awesome video. Provides me with goals to achieve.

@VisualEducationStudio

Ай бұрын

Great to hear!

Love your channel and great content I love the visual education platform and I have learned a great deal

@VisualEducationStudio

Ай бұрын

Great to hear thanks

👍👍👍👍👍thank you Karl😍👍👍👍👍

Freaking awesome tutorial! Especially using the black cards to make the contrast. I could never see the difference in videos from other photographers who used black cards to make the contrast but you showed it and It makes a total difference!!! You have taught me a lot with this video with just one or two lights! Thanks you!! Definitely subscribing!!

@VisualEducationStudio

22 күн бұрын

Thanks.

Great

Gr8 gr8 gr8 as always 👏😍😍😍 & thank you Karl 🌹

@VisualEducationStudio

Ай бұрын

My pleasure!

Abdolutly brilliant content. Im gonna have a portrait shoot soon and this was amazing. Thank you so much. Love all your content :)!

@VisualEducationStudio

Ай бұрын

Glad it was useful.

excellent demonstration

@VisualEducationStudio

Ай бұрын

Many thanks

Great video. Creative and informative.

@VisualEducationStudio

Ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

The juxtaposition of his emphasis of “just one light” while having multiple assistants custom shape the walls and ceiling and flags was quite entertaining. I appreciate the intent of just playing with light and bounce/flags to shape the light but it was still pretty funny with the level of complexity.

Outstanding 😀

@VisualEducationStudio

Ай бұрын

Thank you

very great video explaining light and you do it very will thanks for helping me out

@VisualEducationStudio

Ай бұрын

Glad it helped

This is insane!!!

@VisualEducationStudio

Ай бұрын

Is that in a good way :)

@ba553y

Ай бұрын

@@VisualEducationStudio In a great way!! Whoa! Delivered gold so effortlessly. SMH

inspirations

@VisualEducationStudio

Ай бұрын

Cheers.

Fantistic video. Love how you explain your lighting setups. Question if I may. What were the f stops and ISO settings in your lighting setups? I am wondering because ISO and/or f stops Might produce SOME of the same results, not all but some. Thanks.

Try feathering with the softbox

How big is the first octa? lovely light

Can anyone advise on what affordable lighting equipment I can buy to achieve this two light set up? My budget is $1200 for everything. Thanks

A lot of colour banding in this video. Any advice of how you remove colour banding in photos/videos?

With respect to light meters they are a valuable tool to use especially when shooting film. I shoot a great deal of reversal film you can’t just wing it and hope that you have the correct exposure. Otherwise good information. Thanks

@VisualEducationStudio

Ай бұрын

Yes of course back in the 90's and early 2000's when I was shooting film I had one round my neck all the time. No need now though if shooting digital.

Always showing us this stuff in gigantic studios that none of us out here in the real world have !!

@VisualEducationStudio

Ай бұрын

And with lights so close to the subject that the setups could be replicated in your living room or garage. Or like many photographers do they rent a studio or a hall and take this knowledge with them.

@thatguyslush5779

Ай бұрын

False

thinking outside the box, by reating a white box😉

Off topic question. In my country every studio we want to rent that has that style background they have a sign telling us to remove our shoes. I see you guys are all in shoes. How do you deal with the mess? As i found it's hard to clean those without painting again.

@VisualEducationStudio

Ай бұрын

Hi, we paint it about every 4-8 weeks

@caneva9835

Ай бұрын

If you allow me the suggestion, you and assistans can use shoe covers to minimize dirt in the cyclorama, they are very cheap and comfortable.

@VisualEducationStudio

Ай бұрын

Hi yes we have those decorators slip over blue plastic ones but we only bother with them if we need a perfect floor before a shoot, it takes us less than an hour to paint the floor and for most shoots we don't need a perfect floor. Putting them on and off for everything in the studio is too time consuming for us everyday, we prefer to just give it a fresh coat of paint if it's needed.

the light master

"REMEMBER GUYS THIS IS JUST ONE BARE BULB LIGHT...." .... Yeah, in a massive studio, with SIX v-flats and a giant bounce hanging from the ceiling.

@VisualEducationStudio

8 күн бұрын

As you learn more about lighting physics you will realise that the bare bulb lighting technique demonstrated here is actually easier to undertake in a small white garage size studio or much smaller space.

Step one. Buy 10k in lighting equipment. I'm doomed.

@VisualEducationStudio

Ай бұрын

Hi, the lighting need not be that expensive. As you would have seen most of the demonstrations were made with one or two lights which could be any brand. The shots were also completed bare bulb, or with standard softboxes, reflectors or grids and you can't get any less expensive than a bare bulb lighting shoot if you have one studio light.

@miteshagaria3987

Ай бұрын

Karl uses these lights as he is into this profession for more than 25 yrs and agencies demand perfection. He or any profession will need precision and dependable equipment. Plenty of made in china dependable lights available under 50 USD. Like $10 5 in 1 reflector can be used instead of the white wall on wheels he did. It’s just people only notice equipment and power settings and not the point he is trying to make 🫡

@rolandrickphotography

Ай бұрын

Two Lomtop heavy duty C stands about £ 130 each, 2 Godox Sk400II £ 150 each, Xpro-(your camera brand) ttl trigger £70, Godox Softbox Strip Honeycomb £ 135 (2 strip boxes according to the company having that greek female warrior tribe brand name), you can 75% of that what Karl is teaching here, except for the hair light from behind.

@paddlr5000

Ай бұрын

Step 1 rent gear. Step 2 start charging proper rates and stop giving away photography for almost nothing.

@Adrian-Szymczyk

Ай бұрын

Bro there are plenty videos of him doing the same magic using cheap equipment 💁

That was really useful and very well demonstrated. Thank you!

@VisualEducationStudio

Ай бұрын

Thank you

Excellent video, thank you