Macro Lighting - Best Practices in the Studio - Technique - Show Notes
Hello all! Welcome back to Allan Walls Photography!
Before I forget, if you want information about the equipment that I use and/or discuss throughout the three chapters of this video, you can find all that, with links, in the accompanying article, published on my website and available right here:
https://www.allanwallsphotography.com/blog/Lighting-Best-Practices-in-Macro-Photography
This is the very last video of the entire Lighting for Photography Series, AKA - Part VII, Chapter III - “My Best Practices for Lighting in Macro Photography”. By the time I was finished editing the thing, it topped out at one hour and forty minutes! Obviously, I wouldn’t do that to you! So I went back and split the material up into three separate chapters (clearly what I should have done in the first place).
Surprisingly, the edited content broke down into three, roughly equal, standalone videos:
1. Macro Lighting - Best Practices in the Field
2. Macro Lighting - Best Practices in the Studio - Equipment
3. Macro Lighting - Best Practices in the Studio - Technique (this video)
This is the third of those chapters. But before I go further, my sincere thanks to my wonderful Patreon supporters and to the marvelous human beings who have made donations through my donation page (https://www.allanwallsphotography.com/donations). None of this would be possible without your support!
If you are not among these fine individuals, but would like to support my efforts and help keep the videos coming, please consider signing up as a Patreon patron, which can be done by going to https://patreon.com/allanwallsphotography. I could certainly use your help!
In Chapter Three - this one - we build on everything we have covered during this series, and I lay out my recommendations for shooting macro in the studio. The techniques and ideas that I talk about are the same things that I do in my own photography, just as they are the same things that I teach my students. We cover a lot of ground, talking about visualizing your shot, selecting the right lighting, and setting everything up to get the best possible images. I also walk you through an example of how I set up my lighting for a rather unusual subject (maybe “weird” is a better description?).
By the way, if you like the demonstration format used in that part of the video, and if you want me to do more demo-based videos, tell me what you want me to shoot. Just leave a suggestion in the comments. If I get any requests, I’ll put together a full video covering the catching, prepping, cleaning, posing, lighting, shooting, editing, printing, and sharing of one single image. But you have to tell me what you want me to tackle. I think it would be great fun! Please don’t ask me to photograph anything aggressive, deadly, or smelly.
Where was I…? Oh yeah, the other two chapters of this video are already available here on YouTube, so don’t forget to check them out too.
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If you have somehow managed to watch every single one of these lighting videos, you are amazing! But if you haven’t, you are still amazing.
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Allan