Great demo John! I always appreciate it when you show each light in isolation, then all together 👍

Hello from France John! Thanks for your time and your good advices ! Such a pleasure to see you showing us this great classic-looking 3 points lighting. See you in the next one :)

Exceptional as always! Thank you John.

Straight up solid gold info from the Windy City. Great video tutorial!

Thanks for the class ! Hugs from Brazil.

Love this video and it really help me to understand hot to light a subject like this

Outstanding tutorial, John - thank you. 😄🇦🇺🦘

Thank you John 🤙

Thank you so much!

Awesome stuff. I'll have to practice this next week.

thanks John!

Thank you John! greetings from istanbul 🙋🏽‍♂️

Great video as always, looking forward to seeing you at Imaging USA 2022!

I need to start using my light meter too. This video is a good refresher. Almost forgot how to use it :))

Great video!

this looks like an amazing video. cant wait to watch it. looking for your c-stand video tho. how to setup it up. saved this one and will come back to it.

Thank u good brother

fantastic breakdown and the final looks wonderful! I truly appreciate that you include the different light ratios off the main/key! This is the absolute needed steps to understand what each light is doing - the individual shots showing each light alone as well… I find it annoying that many “teachers” do vids like this minus all the important info breakdown, they show an image, the bts light positions only and then give the camera model/lens used and the 1 & only main f/stop it was shot at 🙄🥱which pretty much tells/shows nothing as to all the important elements at work to bring it all together for the final image - i understand many do this and then sell learning tutorials on the side but often many still do not mention light’g ratios beyond the key light 🤦🏻‍♀️ Your channel is why i want to get into one of your lighting workshops someday when you are in my area!! Thank you for all your efforts and sharing your knowledge John 🙏🏼🙏🏼 The experimenting / learning time has been greatly reduced for me and i can shoot at any f/stop as Key and adjust accordingly with your ratios and or tweak as per my desired look 👍🏼👍🏼

It would be amazing have a video about feathered light. Thank you so much for all these info! Greetings from Medellín Colombia

Thank u

GREAT as usually! Thank you for your time you are spending with whole yours teaching.....today you change my comfortability of photoshooting because of your seconic! :-) I'm using L-358....let's say was using...I order L-478 for elinchrom today :-) !!! So thank you again. Best regards Jan (please be patient with my english...I'm from Czech republic, so I can spek česky very well but english ?? :-)))

Fantastic video John! Truly appreciate your educational content. On the 4 point lighting, how far is the main, fill, kicker and hair light modifier distance from the model? Thank you!

great informative video. how do you prevent lens flare/loss of contrast from the kicker light?

It would also be very enlightening to see side by side the fully lit picture with one with just the key, than with key and fill, and with one with key and rim - to not only see what each light is doing, but also what difference it makes.

Excellent! Thank you for having the fill light by the camera, and not opposite the main light, as so many instructors teach - unless you just did it because of the small space. hehe. I like how you leave in your misspeaks and corrections, rather than editing and re-doing the shot. The hair light was very subtle, but what a difference it made! Can you help me with something? There was a brand of lighting that was popular with pros, that went out of business a year or so ago (maybe up to 4 years). Could you please tell me the name of that brand? Thanks!

Hey John - question - when you’re adjusting to meter at the F stop, are you turning the power on the light down or up?

Hello John. Is there a document with light setups and the different aperture values for each light type? How do I know that the kicker needs more power than the fill light? Sure try but where do the basics come from?

Given how little it affected the outcome, I'd add a hair light before I'd add an edge light. Or perhaps combine the two by positioning the hair light a little more camera tight.

You should do a video on shooting shadow-side.

I measure my lights separately to taste. Then I measure them all together, which often gives me a value higher than my working aperture. I have never heard any photographer adressing this issue. How would you solve it?

I’m got a little confused for the fill light, it’s at 2.8 but the keylight is at 8. How come it is not more powerful than the key?

I would like to buy your guide but it still shows at $50.