Money Making Lighting Setups: Photographing Men | Inside Fashion and Beauty Photography w/ Lindsay
If you are only photographing female subjects then you are missing out on a big part of the photographic market! While I specialize in beauty photography and most often photograph women, much of my commercial work involves male subjects. I’ve photographed professional athletes, executive portraits, and fashion lookbooks- all with male subjects!
In this video, I show you the 3 lighting setups that help me make money when photographing men; headshots, commercial fashion, and athlete portraits.
Let’s take a look.
Headshots (1-3 lights):
Main Light: 3ft octabox
Rim Light: 1x4ft strip softbox
Background light: 10 or 20-degree grid
Commercial Fashion/Lookbook (1-2 lights):
Main light: Large umbrella with diffusion
Fill: White V-Flat
Athlete Portraits (3 lights):
Main Light: White Beauty Dish (with and without grid)
Rim lights: 2 1x4ft strip softboxes
Remember, for any of these setups you can swap out modifiers if you wish to change the quality of light. For example, for the men’s headshot, you could use a beauty dish as the main light if you wanted a bit more contrast and sculpting. Your background choice will also mark a big difference to the final result. A brown/beige background (Savage Universal Beige or Pecan) is a great choice for bringing out skin tones and creating a welcoming result.
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THANKS SO MUCH FOR WATCHING!
Awesome!! Good refresher course. Kudos to Lindsay, Adorama, and her team. Thank you for having the class.
Love your tutorials! You explain things so clearly and thoroughly making it look simple to execute. Thank you ❤
I love the way you explain things. Everything just makes sense. I say you're a genius. Best gift in photography.
One of the best tutorials I've ever seen, amazing work
Love the Lindsay's tutorials so much ♥ Thanks a lot
Great video Lindsay! All the setups and resulting shots are definitely money making if people follow your suggestions. Thanks!
Excellent. As ever, the "trick" is knowing what look you're after and why. The lighting and other tech aspects fall into line from there. For whatever reason it remains unsaid but I imagine a basic shot list is part of any "recipe."
This was phenomenal as always 😊 Lindsay never fails!! 👏👏👏
Really good stuff. Actual information and examples. Bravo
This was fantastic! So informative and well described, learned a lot. Thank you
Well I just love learning and sitting in class from the masters!!
My favorite photographer! These videos are so helpful 😍
Nice, detail oriented presentation.. Even if I seen this in specific amount of time, im still more than pleased to see and enjoy in all this set ups, approach and expressions.. Great job anyway!
Superbly described the points. Thanks a lot
Wow!! Thank you for sharing these wonderful setups. You’re always making the best out of photography.
Fantastic as usual learning all the time thank you.
Thanks Adorama! Thanks Lindsey Adler. I read your book on posing guide. It was fantastic. You're a great impact to the industry ma. Can't wait to meet you in person.
Love your videos and instructions. Thank you for sharing. You’re pretty amazing! Love your works. 💙💙👏👏👏
great tutorial! thank you Lindsay
I love Lindsay. Open to share her knowledge, and love for the game.
I did get the class as well, and I am loving It. And u. Thanks so much, it's great help to improve!
Great class. I might update my photo in Spring. Thanks for the tips.
Just plain brilliant
Ok, these are GREAT tips and I follow Lindsay's work and workshops at conferences. But I enjoy watching this video cause that man is FIIIIIIINE!🤩🤣
Love ur tuts!
She's Great and thorough about sharing.
Thanks Adorama!
Very good job you explain things clearly.
Very informative and helpful tutorial! Thank you so much Lindsay, Thank you so much Adorama!
Really helpful, thank you!
Very informative. Thank You!
Awesome instructor 👌
What an excellent video.
great information for differences in catalog,editorial lighting looks/feel to the images w/ light’g tweaks & edit thanks so much Lindsay & Adorama 🙏🏼
Beautiful work
Great content, thank you.
Thank you for such nice tutorial
what a good clsss here! just do it! thanks!
I'm addicted to your tutorials! Your presentation style makes it so enjoyable to watch. I have improved my photography skills in all areas. I've taking several online courses that were not worth the time or money . Thank you Lindsay!!
Wow!! awesome Thank you for best photographer.... Love you
Superb!
Thank you. 😎
Best Guidence
Hi! Love your videos. Whats the editing program you use?
What specific color is the warm background? Please and thank you!
You are amazing ❤
Great !
Great!! Thanks
I love your work! You are PERFECTION! Im the Sony guy from uruguay ❤️🔥 that email you 🙌🏻
great stuff - is that a fan on the floor in gret - ive been struggling to find a decent powerful fan thats not huge and bulky or costs the price of a holdiday to the carribean
Appreciate you and your videos. Does it matter if the rim light touches the nose during portraits and headshots? It doesn't bother me personally but ive heard people say otherwise.
Very informative and inspiring. What editing software are you using?
CaptureOne
Hi Lindsay, a question: I use the RF 24-105 F4L as my main studio lens as well (RF 50mm 1.2 and RF 135mm 1.8 for outside the studio setting). What would you say is the widest you are comfortable with for shooting a full body shot, without having too much distortion in the body? I have a lot of space to back up at the moment, so I can even shoot full body at 135mm, but my near-future home studio will be a lot smaller...
It is hard to say, but I think I am usually around 50-63mm but I definitely have some purposefully dramatic shots much wider. Check the 15-35mm wide angle video I did last year. Id say probably usually around 35mm as widest
Very informative video! I am curious, how many feet away from the background did you position the model?
It depends but usually 6-8ft. it does depend though.
Thanks so much for your education! I have white and black seamless and want to add gray and a skin tone. Which would you recommend? I've heard you speak of Fashion Gray. And for the skin tone, which of Mocha, Pecan, Beige, Egg Nog? Appreciate your input!
Fashion Gray is my go-to and most versatile. I also use Thunder Gray often as well. For skin tones I typically use their general 'beige' but it largely depends on what I'm shooting. I have a variety of them for that reason.
@@lindsayadlerphoto Thank you! I appreciate your reply!
are you using blower for the the shoot with action
Lindsay, your background light stand, how tall is it and which brand do you have?
are these with strobe or continuous lighting? I see he's lit up while your talking but I also see a flash?
Which app you using for that mam...i mean that colour grading with direct camera
in the 3' octa, how far was it from the subject?
How far was the model from the background?
In your class, are the videos downloadable?
Please help is she shooting with external flash I can’t see the set up for this there!
I'll be coming out with an on location class probably in q4 of 2023 which will cover using external flash. :)
There is NO ONE like Lindsay Adler...No one.
Please STOP using a white background when showing your images, the pupil of our eye is on auto so it shuts down with all that screen light making the image lose contrast ....
I'll be sure to do that lol. 🙄