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Paul Howard says
Holy shit is right!! Wonderful.
Sinnerman Photography says
Gorgeous captures!
Dave Q says
WOW. As I believe you don’t do much if any retouching (?) this looks amazing. The makeup is FLAWLESS. So is the lighting, of course 🙂
Vardhan Kale says
Joe, none of the photos captured by you are less than stunning irrespective or the camera or lens used. It is because of this reason that I humbly request you to please capture a photo twice with different lenses with the same composition, and same lighting setup. for ex 70-200 at 135, 135 mm, 85 mm 1.4 etc. To my eye, every photo in every blog is stunning and unless another photo is available for comparison, I’m not able to gauge the impact of 135 mm 1.4 over 85 mm 1.4 or other lens. Please, provide a comparison in one of the blogs for us . Many thanks in advance.
Stefan Frank says
Hi, Joe. Really nice peace of work. But where is the 4th speedlite placed?
Kind regards from Germany ;o)
Joe McNally says
Hey Stefan…one is in the overhead soft box, two into the uplite, and one raw flash behind…..
Ivan Sorensen says
Just curious if this is all TTL or if there is some metering involved. Thanks.
Alex says
Wow, the lightning is simply brilliant, especially in the second photo. First one is a tad too bright for my taste, but that’s just me! The Uplight really works great. We all have a “Holy shit” lens in our kit haha
Joe McNally says
Awesome…that lens kicks ass….:-))
Joe McNally says
All done initially with TTL. Once I get my ratios in a happy place, because I will be shooting a lot, I then push the units into manual from the wireless controls at camera.
Joe McNally says
Good proposal Vardhan. Too extensive and time consuming for me to undertake without some client funding, but I will keep it in mind. All the best, Joe
Rudi says
Awesome as always, Joe! One question. You say: “I then push the units into manual from the wireless controls at camera”. Other than the Profoto Air TTL which you can switch from TTL to manual and you have the ratios at hand. For the Nikon the values are lost in the manual setup.
So the question is: Do you start over from the beginning for flashes or do you just do the key light from scratch and then you use the TTL ratio values for the other groups to set them for the manual (maybe you should talk to Nikon to take over the measured TTL values for manual setup 😉
Joe McNally says
Yep, you be right. No indication of the power settings in TTL then translating to manual. Gotta figure it out. Over the years, I’ve gotten used to making some decent guessing!!!
Joe says
Simply stunning.
Meagan Jordan says
So, do you only use this in dark rooms in need of light, or do you take this outside or wherever you are shooting in challenging lighting? Also, what editing program do you use? I use lightroom and I was wondering what professionals in the field use and suggest.
susan Porter Thomas says
Perfect lighting for an actress, Hides all those wrinkles and give them a glow..
Irene Abdou says
That 2nd image is just absolutely gorgeous. In the first image, I love the bottom catchlight from the uplite. Beautiful!
Nathan says
Wow – love it!
moumita mallick says
woooh..speachless.. it’s my dream to be a photographer.. thank you for sharing a lovely moment with us.
Harry Jackson says
Great lightning work the photo editing is a very fine one which is not too contrast and saturation appears cool. Nice one Joe.
Mike says
Stunning lighting from the master.
Timo Hamburg says
I love your pictures, thanks for sharing!!! Hope to see you in Germany if you will ever be here 😉
art meripol says
When I first saw the 3/4 image on Instagram I thought…holy cow that’s a tough one with those whites. Seeing it larger here and the tighter shot with it just confirms it…nobody has mastered speedlights like you. There’s no denying how sophisticated and deft you are with them. And thanks once again for a great teaching blog.
Joe McNally says
Many thanks Art…as always, coming from a pro of your stature, it means alot…..all the best…Joe