Photo Deconstruction: Vintage Beauty Photography using a Flag

Join me in exploring my new "Photo Deconstruction" series where I select one of my photographs and share the elements that work together to bring that shot to life. I share inspiration, lighting, behind the scenes images, before/after post-processing and more.
In this video I deconstruct a high contrast black and white beauty image. Many photographers are afraid of hard light, but it can be such a powerful tool especially when creating more vintage-inspired imagery. For this shot I use a bare bulb (no modifier) to create an extremely hard main light. Then, I added a flag (piece of cinefoil) to cast a crisp shadow onto the model’s face.
A second light with a grid is used on the background to create a beautiful gradient and glow of light behind the model, separating her from the background.
Photographer: Lindsay Adler
Makeup: Gilbert Soliz
Hair: Linh Nguyen
Gear:
Canon 5D IV: bhpho.to/2yC74cR
Canon 70-200mm 2.8: bhpho.to/2wOKr7u
2 Profoto D2s: bhpho.to/2FRbOjg
Cinefoil
Profoto 10 Degree Grid: bhpho.to/2KTbUvW
Background:
Savage Storm Grey: bhpho.to/2JktCD0
View more image breakdowns here: lindsayadler.photo/photo-deco...
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  • @josephchan4198
    @josephchan4198Ай бұрын

    Glad this pop up again. Great tips. Thanks for giving back to the Photography Community.

  • @dandaniel439
    @dandaniel4392 жыл бұрын

    Love the creativity

  • @lukeventers4755
    @lukeventers47552 жыл бұрын

    Nice work, Lindsay. Hello from Montana.

  • @albertw251
    @albertw2515 жыл бұрын

    Nice. Love the series!! Thank you for taking the time to do this series.

  • @rony7758
    @rony7758 Жыл бұрын

    always, the best

  • @stacykivi4531
    @stacykivi45315 жыл бұрын

    I absolutely love how you explained everything step by step and gave examples !!! I will def take some notes. Please, keep going!

  • @michaelofmelrose
    @michaelofmelrose5 жыл бұрын

    WOW!!! That is fantastic and your walking thru it is like icing on the cake!!!

  • @AliDrew
    @AliDrew4 жыл бұрын

    I love your photo deconstructions and thank you for showing how you flag the light. Hard light is so dramatic!

  • @gigirocks9603
    @gigirocks96035 жыл бұрын

    Love this! Thanks Lindsay! love it short and simple and super!

  • @antoniomoreira8303
    @antoniomoreira83035 жыл бұрын

    Perfect !! Thank you Lindsay !!

  • @tommys6126
    @tommys61265 жыл бұрын

    Great video I didn't notice the ponytail till you mentioned it great shot keep them videos coming really love your work 👍👍

  • @romualddero8678
    @romualddero86782 жыл бұрын

    So much knowledge and passion being shared, thank you so much Lindsay so inspiring!

  • @MusicJunky3
    @MusicJunky34 жыл бұрын

    Fabulous series from a fabulous teacher ! More..more...more..!

  • @Siftedheart
    @Siftedheart5 жыл бұрын

    Thank you ! Looking forward to these❤️

  • @theoldplovdiv
    @theoldplovdiv5 жыл бұрын

    Thank you for sharing the secrets of this shot! 👌👏 The video is short and provides all necessary details! Great job!

  • @moovieman693
    @moovieman6934 жыл бұрын

    I love black and white pictures. VERY inspirational. Will add this to "Projects to try". Great walk-through

  • @jerrym8140
    @jerrym81405 жыл бұрын

    I absolutely love your work and thank you for sharing. 😊

  • @stillsandvideo
    @stillsandvideo5 жыл бұрын

    Great series (Photo Deconstruction). Thanks for sharing.

  • @arbull7264
    @arbull72644 жыл бұрын

    I so love your style! You give me inspiration❤️🙏🏿

  • @charfiomar3487
    @charfiomar34873 жыл бұрын

    this series of photo deconstruction is jsut priceless. Thank you so much for these!

  • @lindsayadlerphoto

    @lindsayadlerphoto

    3 жыл бұрын

    Thank you so much!

  • @kylelemburg4464
    @kylelemburg44645 жыл бұрын

    Such a big fan! Thanks for taking time to make these videos.

  • @sameercopper69
    @sameercopper693 жыл бұрын

    Absolutely AMAZING!

  • @annerichard788
    @annerichard7885 жыл бұрын

    Very good work, beautiful result and very clear instructions, thanks.

  • @josephchan4198
    @josephchan41982 жыл бұрын

    Thank you for editing tips, and some of your workflow. This branch out to some accessories for my other photography hobby.

  • @richardweathers6194
    @richardweathers61942 жыл бұрын

    This was clear & easy to follow, even for a beginner like me. The models, expressions and editing blend so well together! I don't have the same gear of course but there's always some way I can adapt what you teach to my own work.

  • @armada0749
    @armada07494 жыл бұрын

    You are a beautiful lady and a perfect teacher Lindsay .

  • @greenb1877
    @greenb18775 жыл бұрын

    You are my inspiration! It is so important having good photographer with great teaching skills! Great photographer!

  • @lindsayadlerphoto

    @lindsayadlerphoto

    5 жыл бұрын

  • @AlexLopez-iy4by
    @AlexLopez-iy4by5 жыл бұрын

    Thank you for great demo. Striking image.

  • @eduardshcherbakov
    @eduardshcherbakov5 жыл бұрын

    Brilliant as always

  • @tomazwo
    @tomazwo4 жыл бұрын

    Absolutely awesome! Love the photo and the work to make it :)

  • @LeDocSabote
    @LeDocSabote5 жыл бұрын

    Lindsay you are a beautiful, gorgeous, creative and intelligent woman. Thank you for sharing. 😍

  • @gtrsfk9001
    @gtrsfk90015 жыл бұрын

    That neck job was awesome

  • @Argentarius11
    @Argentarius11 Жыл бұрын

    Boss Linday!

  • @thomashenn1568
    @thomashenn15685 жыл бұрын

    Very good! Thank you for making and sharing.

  • @prkane1
    @prkane15 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for another great video.

  • @unodosblanco
    @unodosblanco5 жыл бұрын

    You are AWESOME!!!

  • @drewsleyy3836
    @drewsleyy38363 жыл бұрын

    Thank you for this!! As a budding photographer looking to get creative with lighting, this is a godsend

  • @josephchan4198
    @josephchan419810 ай бұрын

    I am glad you have these courses if have a business or personal project coming up. Hope the weather did effect you to much.

  • @lindsayadlerphoto

    @lindsayadlerphoto

    10 ай бұрын

    Thanks Joseph!

  • @huajunren7197
    @huajunren71973 жыл бұрын

    So great!

  • @amanshaikh3685
    @amanshaikh36854 жыл бұрын

    One of my top fav shot

  • @Blackmind0
    @Blackmind05 жыл бұрын

    i enjoy your videos so much and learn a lot....thank you for that and for sharing....greets BM. 🙂

  • @pannizsamboki2984
    @pannizsamboki29845 жыл бұрын

    Love it!:))

  • @andrewgreig1197
    @andrewgreig11975 жыл бұрын

    Thank you Lindsay, you said at the start that because of the strong shadow you were not so concerned when shooting at f8, but f8 is what has provided the really charming feature of the eyelashes against the background glow. At 2.8 they would have been soft. This is an outstanding tutorial and it will make a difference to how I shoot. 5 Gold stars!!

  • @lindsayadlerphoto

    @lindsayadlerphoto

    5 жыл бұрын

    Thank you Andrew! 😀

  • @cjimenez2787
    @cjimenez27875 жыл бұрын

    love your explanations. have bought several tutorials from you, they are really good. thanks for your secrets.

  • @lindsayadlerphoto

    @lindsayadlerphoto

    5 жыл бұрын

    Thank you for your support!

  • @sonofthesea
    @sonofthesea2 жыл бұрын

    Wonderful

  • @robertsakowski
    @robertsakowski5 жыл бұрын

    great shot!

  • @liontx
    @liontx5 жыл бұрын

    Super helpful, thanks!

  • @ArtUr-Foto
    @ArtUr-Foto4 жыл бұрын

    Thanks a lot for your ideas.

  • @FemOdelPhotography
    @FemOdelPhotography5 жыл бұрын

    05:27 onwards: “Everything is clean and on purpose”. That’s a Lindsay Adler trademark. Clean. Controlled. A place for everything and everything in its place. Very organised. Proper preparation is what leads to those clean results 👍🏼

  • @genswarc
    @genswarc5 жыл бұрын

    Great video, thx! :-) I'm falling in love with hard light recently (the spring sun was soooo perfect for this with the lower angle!), love to experiment with it. And you gave me a lot inspiration with your work, thank you! Would love to see a good bts video with a hard light fashion line shoot..:-))

  • @lindsayadlerphoto

    @lindsayadlerphoto

    5 жыл бұрын

    Glad you enjoyed it!

  • @drsutton2
    @drsutton25 жыл бұрын

    love ur deconstructions

  • @lindsayadlerphoto

    @lindsayadlerphoto

    5 жыл бұрын

    Thank you so much!

  • @CarinaDeJesus1
    @CarinaDeJesus14 жыл бұрын

    thank you soooo sooo much for sharing your knowledge and your beautifuuuuul work with us. this is sooo helpful 😍😍. I am a total beginner and this kind of videos are perfect to learn. Again, I am very grateful 😋😋😘😘😘😘😘 thank you!!!

  • @lindsayadlerphoto

    @lindsayadlerphoto

    4 жыл бұрын

    Glad you found this help, thanks for watching! :)

  • @karl08701
    @karl087015 жыл бұрын

    great JOB HERO

  • @thatcreole9913
    @thatcreole99135 жыл бұрын

    Wow! I so have to go try and reconstruct this now. Amazing work!

  • @thatcreole9913

    @thatcreole9913

    5 жыл бұрын

    Ok. Here’s my first attempt. I really like how it came out. Thanks Lindsay! instagram.com/p/BwTutWPHt-2/?igshid=1d3ebeneg0wab

  • @lindsayadlerphoto

    @lindsayadlerphoto

    5 жыл бұрын

    I really like how this came out! I think you're definitely on the right track here! 😀💪

  • @tedgathura3178
    @tedgathura31783 жыл бұрын

    am going to give this hard light a try

  • @shawnvine4918
    @shawnvine49185 жыл бұрын

    Very interesting. Thank you.

  • @cashino
    @cashino5 жыл бұрын

    No further questions your Honor, thanks :-) 👍👍👍👍👍

  • @lindsayadlerphoto

    @lindsayadlerphoto

    5 жыл бұрын

    lol. xo

  • @joaofezasvital8521
    @joaofezasvital85214 жыл бұрын

    looks like a richard avedon picture. beautiful

  • @EugenioTrainer
    @EugenioTrainer5 жыл бұрын

    I love these videos, thanks for sharing!

  • @lindsayadlerphoto

    @lindsayadlerphoto

    5 жыл бұрын

    xo you are so welcome!

  • @jonnyedward4755
    @jonnyedward47555 жыл бұрын

    Fantastic work, as always, Lindsay! Simple, elegant, and incredibly effective.

  • @ZonXification
    @ZonXification3 жыл бұрын

    Fantastic. This helps so much . Thank you (:

  • @gucciciora
    @gucciciora2 жыл бұрын

    Loving it, thank you !! Maby you can add the exact steps you do in photoshop...I see some liquify there, her face turned into another person :) , her chin is longer etc But art like U are amazing!!

  • @playinthroulife
    @playinthroulife4 жыл бұрын

    0:25 a start of a rap song by L.Adler "Hard light, black and white vintage photos... " you are a natural :) Absolutely loved this deconstruction, the more I watch your videos the more I want to be a part of your workshop :)

  • @lindsayadlerphoto

    @lindsayadlerphoto

    4 жыл бұрын

    lol thank you so much :)

  • @veselinvasilev9362
    @veselinvasilev93623 жыл бұрын

    Thank You!

  • @AlternativeElvis
    @AlternativeElvis3 жыл бұрын

    Awesome video, I'll be stealing that technique, though maybe with a standard reflector with some diffusion

  • @mohamedmorshed6233
    @mohamedmorshed62334 жыл бұрын

    You videos are awesome

  • @lindsayadlerphoto

    @lindsayadlerphoto

    4 жыл бұрын

    Thank you!

  • @losmatix
    @losmatix5 жыл бұрын

    good stuff

  • @josediazh3890
    @josediazh38905 жыл бұрын

    Se agradece!

  • @MattBakerJazz
    @MattBakerJazz2 жыл бұрын

    Hey Lindsay! What did you do in photoshop to elongate her neck?

  • @julioaponte3197
    @julioaponte31973 жыл бұрын

    The shadow on the bridge of her nose really makes me unease. Being a high contrast photo from my point of view I would have retouch it. Just my humble opinion.Nice work!

  • @lindsayadlerphoto

    @lindsayadlerphoto

    3 жыл бұрын

    The shadows is the whole point of the image

  • @Dieg0612
    @Dieg06125 жыл бұрын

    How do you get the silky effect of the skin?

  • @dreadnoughtphotowerkz
    @dreadnoughtphotowerkz4 жыл бұрын

    Very nice. But it doesn't work so well this individuals with very dark skin. How would you shoot the exact same photo with a black person?

  • @lindsayadlerphoto

    @lindsayadlerphoto

    4 жыл бұрын

    Actually if you scroll back in my instagram feed aways you'll see this done with darker skin. Basically I add a grid to the background for a lot of separation, and I just know the skin will be a little more 'specular' aka shiny. Totally works though just in a different way. lower key result.

  • @dreadnoughtphotowerkz

    @dreadnoughtphotowerkz

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@lindsayadlerphoto Thank you for responding back, it's greatly appreciated.

  • @RS5Nola
    @RS5Nola4 жыл бұрын

    @linseyadler shooting barebulb gave me way too much light on the subject. I shoot with a Flashpoint 600B the power was at 1/128 power.

  • @lindsayadlerphoto

    @lindsayadlerphoto

    4 жыл бұрын

    Trying shooting lowest ISO possible and move your light further away. Further away will solve the problem. If not, add ND filter/gel.

  • @RS5Nola

    @RS5Nola

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@lindsayadlerphoto wow...I cant believe you replied. Thank you so much. So amazing

  • @darkspeed62
    @darkspeed626 ай бұрын

    Be nice if you explained what a V-flat was and it also wasn't clear why you showed the background light behind thr VFlat? Does it shine through the v-flat? Why was it facing away from the subject in the behjnd the scenes photo? Did you have it behind the subject and thrn reflectibg off rhe v-flat? It was hard to understsnd the lighting setup as you didn't have a proper lightibg diagram! Also, why did you use cinefoil, rather than say a black oiece of card. Would they produce the same effect or no?

  • @lindsayadlerphoto

    @lindsayadlerphoto

    6 ай бұрын

    Hi there, you can check my many KZread videos that cover V-flats or any of my premium content for in-depth diagrams and bts. For this, I used cinefoil because it has a sharper edge, but thing card board (as long as it was dark and not reflective) would also do the trick. The light behind the V-flat would also allow me to prevent any accidental spill on the subject OR just the v-Flat to flag the light (block) when I want a more defined shadow edge on the background.

  • @jayerjavec
    @jayerjavec Жыл бұрын

    Why waste time in post when you can walk into session with clear goals and mind? Never understood this reliance on post and sloppy work approach while on set.

  • @chriscarter3866
    @chriscarter38664 жыл бұрын

    I like your videos, i really do but just sometimes i think 'that could have been sorted out at the shoot, light corner area, earrings and ponytail". Sometimes there's too much emphasis on 'putting it right in Photoshop'. To take more care at the shooting stage is what surely should be being taught. You actually say something like this in the video and then go and correct all sorts of things. Its a shame. We need to be looking at images by Karsh and the likes to see near perfection in camera. just saying. Interesting to see how it also takes 5 people on set.

  • @lindsayadlerphoto

    @lindsayadlerphoto

    4 жыл бұрын

    I actually don't think that is fair. An artist can use any tools available to them-- its always about the end results. I just choose to share my process with you to HELP people. I got it close in camera and changed my mind about the bun... so I was able to remove it. The result is what counts, no?

  • @romiemiller3093
    @romiemiller30933 жыл бұрын

    this photo would look good in sepia, also.