Naming: Let’s take a quick excursion into the past right at the beginning and see why the Rembrandt Light is called Rembrandt Light. :-) The artist and painter Rembrandt (whose full name actually was “Rembrandt van Rijn”) used a certain lighting style (portrait lighting) for many of his famous paintings and graphics. For many years, Rembrandt intensively studied the effects ... Read More »
Tutorials
Chapter 6: Lighting Design the Easy Way – Secrets of the Inverse-Square Law of Light
Improve Your Photography Skills – Secrets of the Inverse-Square Law of Light Revealed In this blog post, I would like to share some insights with you regarding the connection of aperture and inverse-square law of light as well as their effects on light fall-off. Let me ease you into this topic by explaining the aperture first. Aperture Stops (f-Stops) Switching ... Read More »
Effective Portrait Lighting Setup with 4 Flash Heads – How to Read Images the Right Way
You can quickly find a pretty photo on the internet – but how did the lighting setup look like? Let’s take a closer look at a portrait together and think about how we can trace back to the matching lighting setup from here. Meaning, we want to detect the lighting set by reading the finished image and find out how ... Read More »
ONE-LIGHT-SETUPS / Black-White
>HERE< you can download a file with eight one-light-septups for set.a.light 3D! Note: Your browser (Internet Explorer) may change the file name ending from .set to .zip after downloading. To solve this, please change the ending from .zip to .set after downloading. Even if you have no license, you can open the file and view the Settings! How to do this, ... Read More »
Update News V1.00.71 – With Studio Templates
With the new update, your set.a.light 3D is going to extend once more and provide numerous additional functions. In the video we show you the main innovations and explain how to use them. Content of this Videos: – The new focus point – The Studio Templates – Render Selection in the timeline Attention! The studio templates are only available in ... Read More »
Chapter 5: The use of light
More light sources do NOT automatically mean a better photo. That’s why you’re able to capture great pictures with only one flash head. It’s more of a matter with the general lighting and the right moment. Main question of lighting: What’s the later use of this picture? Application photo: If you’d like to shoot a picture for an application, you ... Read More »
Chapter 4: Just before your camera goes ‘click”
You should always have a plan in mind before you’d take your expensive camera and widely start shooting. How would you like your desired picture to look like? A good plan is more than half the battle and as well kepps you from having hundreds of unused pictures on your SD card or computer. Strt working more effectively! The ... Read More »
Quick Tips for set.a.light 3D – short and easy!
Here you’ll find a collection of very short videos containing helpful tips for your use of set.a.light 3D. Each video features only one or two functions and explains them shortly and to the point. The videos should help you operate set.a.light 3D even better and more effectively. In addition you might find some features that are new to you. Quick Tip: ... Read More »
Chapter 3: Light formers / types of light / lighting design
Types of light: Soft light: Soft light, indirect light or also known as diffuse light, is produced through extensive light sources. We know diffuse light from nature, for example sunshine falling through a cloudy sky. A great characteristc of it is its uniform illumination and its minimization of shadows. Their contours are blurry and very soft. In studio photography you ... Read More »
Chapter 2: Starting with portrait photography
Portrait photography contains images of living things, mostly humans, but also creatures and animals. This famous genre of photography is all about “showing them in their correct light” as one would say. We want to point out characteristics of them or capture their emotions or their physical and emotional condition. Age, attractiveness,. beuaty or gender do mostly play a submissive ... Read More »