Comments on: Studio Lighting tutorial movie by Damien Lovegrove

By: damien

damien — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 10:23:34 +0000

Hi Vicky,

I sold my light meter years ago. You have the best light meter there is in your camera. What you see on your camera screen is what you’ve got in the file. No light meter can compare with that. My Studio Lighting DVD will be out in time for Christmas. We will start shooting it in August when everyone else is busy shooting Weddings. If you want to get ahead then come to my one day studio lighting workshop. It will change the way you think and you will be up and running in advanced studio lighting.

Regards, Damien.

By: Vicky

Vicky — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 10:15:45 +0000

Hi Damien,

Great video………but completely different to any of the other tutorials I have seen. We are just moving into studio portraits and have mainly been shooting weddings up until this point. Completely new to studio lighting and first piece of advice from everyone so far has been to get a light meter. Would you not agree with this? Just wondered……..when will your studio lighting dvd be available? Keep up the great work……..you’re an inspiration to us all.

Thanks,

Vicky

By: Jason

Jason — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 20:41:25 +0000

Love your work. Very informative.
I know I’d look into your DVD once it’s ready.

By: damien

damien — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:41:53 +0000

Hi Joseph, I use the screen on the camera to determine the exposure. It’s more accurate than any lightmeter as it shows me exactly what I have got not what I should have. I can zoom in and see exactly what shadow detail and highlight detail is in the image and exactly how the contrast looks in the final image. It is also worth noting that our Nikon D700 has nearly a stop less exposure according to the numbers than my Canon 5D mk2 for the same image exposure. So the screen is the only shure fire way of knowing for sure. I sold my Minolta meters years ago. Regards, Damien.

By: Joseph Adams

Joseph Adams — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 20:02:29 +0000

Hi Damien,

just found this. You got me interested in a studio course in 2010 now.

I do have one question – I realise this is only 8 minutes, but not once do you mention using a lightmeter. It seems you do a lot of this “by eye” – would that be accurate? (just curious as a lot of other pros live and die by their lightmeter)

By: damien

damien — Fri, 29 May 2009 22:19:29 +0000

Hi Alec,

Better than diagrams, I encourage the delegates to zoom out to include the lights in the shots for each set up. There’s no better way of documenting a set up than to photograph it.

Regards, Damien.

By: Alec

Alec — Fri, 29 May 2009 20:52:24 +0000

Hi Damien,
Just because I’m nosey, do you provide diagrams of the various lighting set ups that you use for the tutorial? Nobody could remember all the different set ups.

By: Rasheed

Rasheed — Sun, 17 May 2009 14:36:46 +0000

Hi sir, you have done a good job, its very useful for the people who are interested in studio photo and video shoot and who don’t have any idea about lighting.

By: damien

damien — Sun, 10 May 2009 22:58:52 +0000

Hi Terrence,

This vid was for intended as an aid memoir for the attendees and a marketing tool to attract new delegates to the studio lighting workshops.

I’ll be shooting a proper tutorial DVD on studio lighting at some stage but for now I’m focusing on my workshop training sessions. If you come on one of these you can have a copy of the video with my compliments.

Damien.

By: Terrence Bibb

Terrence Bibb — Tue, 05 May 2009 21:18:35 +0000

Hi Damien….

Is there a way to get a copy of the full 20 minute version of this vid? You are a great inspiration.

Terrence….

By: Simon

Simon — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 11:34:05 +0000

Hi Damien…..

Just got it thanks……..looking forward to it……

Tried putting in to practise some of the natural lighting DVD at the weekend……got some nice shots..but lot more practise needed……..

Simon…..

By: damien

damien — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 11:27:03 +0000

Hi Simon,

Good call! I have just sent all previous delegates of the studio lighting workshop a link to the full 20 minute video in HD. Please check your inbox.

Kindest regards, Damien.

By: damien

damien — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 11:11:00 +0000

Hi Bill,

The next available studio lighting workshop is on Wednesday 1st July. All the details can be found here

Kindest regards,

Damien.

By: Bill Geisler

Bill Geisler — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 10:53:11 +0000

i am interested in when your next workshop might be.

thanks.

bill

By: Simon

Simon — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 07:30:30 +0000

Hi Damien,

Any chance previous delegates recieving the full 20 min version………??

Pretty please…….

Simon