20 January 2013
a lot of our blog followers are strobists and one of the most attractive subjects is strobist setup diagrams.... a very useful tool for learning lighting for sure... though its a two-dimensional tool that doesn't cover height or angle of light modifiers... still, it has a great amount of use to document things quickly... the three-dimensionality can be achieved by keeping as much info in the diagram as possible... some of the objects don't quite match with the actual setups sometimes, which can be rectified by drawing your own stuff... now-a-days I hardly have the time to draw these diagrams, but it was a very important companion for me in my early days as a strobist... it was more than three years ago when I became a strobist... and I had been enjoying this ever since... the early setups and resulting images were crude, yet they paved the way for me to grow up as a photographer....
one of the best things you can do about lighting setups is to keep a document of the setup... it can be in the form of a hand-drawn diagram in a notebook or it can be a digital file.... digital files surely help in these digital times though.... but its not like an EXIF data that comes automatically with a digital image... you have to create the diagram, and thats the pain.... I highly recommend early strobists to draw lighting diagrams.... I've become a lazy bum now, but people like Joe McNally still draw diagrams on paper even after teaching thousands of photogs through hundreds of workshops.... so, try to do this even its a pain... it also helps to keep a document of setups that you want to repeat in the future, especially of complex setups... again, you need to be as detailed as possible in terms of documentation for maximum usefulness...
digital diagram files are readily available on the web... I used the file available for download (in PSD format) for free at www.kevinkertz.com, developed by Kevin Kertz... thats a great deed by him for all the strobists out there...really admirable job...
here are some of the more popular strobist diagram posts in this blog.... may be these can be useful for you.... just click on the image to go to the relevant blog posts...
thanks for reading... please leave a feedback to help us provide useful stuff for you....
Brightening up a gloomy day - one-light strobist set-up
Lamisa's playhouse - two-light strobist set-up
Day-long strobist - two-light strobist set-up for black backdrop
a lot of our blog followers are strobists and one of the most attractive subjects is strobist setup diagrams.... a very useful tool for learning lighting for sure... though its a two-dimensional tool that doesn't cover height or angle of light modifiers... still, it has a great amount of use to document things quickly... the three-dimensionality can be achieved by keeping as much info in the diagram as possible... some of the objects don't quite match with the actual setups sometimes, which can be rectified by drawing your own stuff... now-a-days I hardly have the time to draw these diagrams, but it was a very important companion for me in my early days as a strobist... it was more than three years ago when I became a strobist... and I had been enjoying this ever since... the early setups and resulting images were crude, yet they paved the way for me to grow up as a photographer....
one of the best things you can do about lighting setups is to keep a document of the setup... it can be in the form of a hand-drawn diagram in a notebook or it can be a digital file.... digital files surely help in these digital times though.... but its not like an EXIF data that comes automatically with a digital image... you have to create the diagram, and thats the pain.... I highly recommend early strobists to draw lighting diagrams.... I've become a lazy bum now, but people like Joe McNally still draw diagrams on paper even after teaching thousands of photogs through hundreds of workshops.... so, try to do this even its a pain... it also helps to keep a document of setups that you want to repeat in the future, especially of complex setups... again, you need to be as detailed as possible in terms of documentation for maximum usefulness...
digital diagram files are readily available on the web... I used the file available for download (in PSD format) for free at www.kevinkertz.com, developed by Kevin Kertz... thats a great deed by him for all the strobists out there...really admirable job...
here are some of the more popular strobist diagram posts in this blog.... may be these can be useful for you.... just click on the image to go to the relevant blog posts...
thanks for reading... please leave a feedback to help us provide useful stuff for you....
Brightening up a gloomy day - one-light strobist set-up
Lamisa's playhouse - two-light strobist set-up
Day-long strobist - two-light strobist set-up for black backdrop
