Working with white background is most typical work...your videos help to learn more sir

Great demonstration of the way different light modifiers effect the way the light falls. Also a very graphic demonstration of how the inverse square law effects light fall-off. Thanks Mark. Definitely one of your top episodes.

He is always the best , calm and quite . His teachings are really good .

10 year old video, yet full of information. Thank you I have learnt alot

Man that first shot with that Parabolic is just gorgeous... much like a fashion high key shoot.

Very good video. Not often I really LEARN something from photographer videos, but after this one... I have actually learned something. :)

Awesome tutorial! Thank you so much Mark!

Awesomely explained

They're worth their own show. They're the worst-and best-of both worlds. They spill more than they throw (they're really just a reflective umbrella that leaks enough that you can use them backwards) so like bare bulb you get a lot of "free fill", and because the distance between the light source and the subject varies across the surface of the umbrella, they have a different lighting pattern (a hotter center and feathered edges, even with the "skirted" ones).

well done all you guys at adorama tv from edinburgh,scotland.great video's and photography tuition.a special mention to mark wallace and bryan peterson.cheers guys.

Hi Dear Mark and thanks a lot for all of the help you did to me and lotted more people, just to ask you to show us what is precisely different between a Standard dish and a beauty dish and both of them when we use grids. thanks in advance

Amazing ! Thank you very much !

what a great episode. i think this is the best EVeR!

Thanks Mark , this was so helpful !

Excellent explaining!

Excellent work. Thank you for sharing

Another great video, Mark! You do a wonderful job at explaining things.

very informative. awesome.

Amazing video

Very useful as always! Thanks Mark!

Totally awesome

This dude is AWSOME. thank you for this video. omg I now know a lot more than 15 minutes ago

I tend to look at the catchlights myself. I was in a baby store a couple of weeks ago to get a seat for the car. Behind the tills was a huge image of a baby. There was a lovely catchlight, but also a silhouette of the photographer within the catchlight.

love it,thank you Mark ,love your tutorials!

This was very helpful to me! Thanks a lot, Mark!

Wow great information and Sharon Who? again WoW

best episode yet!! exactly what i was looking for

fantastic once again mark

Dang and here I thought you did this all in one take with no mistakes. ha ha Great job, I appreciate all of your explanations. I am a learn by seeing type and the videos you make are easy to understand.

Thanks a lot....I regularly watch your video.

really nice quality photos. you can see the contacts on her eyes

Really interesting, awesome episode

Love you Kelsey !!!

Mark thanks a lot this really help improve my game with lighting very informative.

Um, Adorama is the obvious answer (and has excellent customer reviews you can use as a guide). The real answer, though, is "almost everywhere"-every large brick-and-mortar photo store will have something, and you'll run out of fingers and toes long, long before you run out of online retailers. Most of the lighting makers, like Profoto, Elinchrom and Paul C. Buff, offer kits that include stands, umbrellas and triggers (even the cheap but questionable Chinese ones). They're everywhere.

Absolutely great vid. So much useful information!

Keep it up budy u rock

Great work Sharon!...oh, you too Mark

Thanks Mark: Keep up the great work.

when you slide the umbrella across the screen, I burst out laughing lmao

Excellent simple review !

holly crap, your pictures are so sharp...

Its been 3 weeks of no new episodes for digital photography 1 on 1. Is this the last? Bo goodbyes? Anyway your vids are the best in youtube Mark. Thank you

Get well soon!! great vidz as always!

In a sense, you're right. But you need to consider how powerful your flash or strobe is. If you're using a speedlite then you'll have a much limited range of options for diffusing your light source.

so great!!!!!!!!!

No, but they do make hexagonal and octagonal softboxes, and most of the "name" brands offer a front diffuser panel that is a white circle with a black border for their larger units. (You can easily make a black circle mask for the cheapies if you're working on a budget.)

iLike how he says "Shed some Light" so much how it pertains to the subject

Love this! Thank you!

Mark if you have used the rotolights for portraits could you do a video. Thanks Don Wagner

Very useful info. BTW, Sharon is the truth.

sharon is gorgeous!~

You could get the background completely black by positioning the model and light farther from the background. But the light at the same distance.

What a great video...finally someone explains these things in enough detail. Thanks PS If the umbrella is deeper, and the light is contained, does that help to keep it from filling the whole room?

No, it doesn't matter where your camera is. Once you expose for a certain area your settings are the same regardless how far you are from the model. If the light doesn't change, neither will your settings.

Thanks a lot for explaining all these :) i really appreciate your help :) regards, duke

Yes but the reflected light off the models face doesn't obey the inverse square law because of the magnification factor you get with using a longer focal length lens at the greater distance. With that magnification comes a larger front element that gathers more light, the f-stop ratio being the same. The best example of this is taking pictures of the moon at night. If you want to see the features on the moon you use a day light exposure. Hope that helps.

You can never get the reflective surface of an umbrella as close to your subject as you can get the front diffuser of a softbox. (The light stand and flash are in the way.) There will be different fall-off effects at the subject position, so while you can come close, you can't get the *same* effect, and sometimes the difference is important to the shot. It depends on the look you're after, and experience will guide you. It might be worth following DC Chavez at Profoto for more info.

Thank you

Hello Mark Wallace yet another awesome example of shaping the light I love all of your videos and I’ve learned a lot of awesome tip to up my photography business and I totally appreciate all your knowledge and wisdom in the world of photography. Now I’d love to know what type of background that is your using in this video thanks in advance for all your help.

it is D4 with a 24-70

Hope you are doing well heard about the sickness on twitter! get better and we miss ya?

The info was great, but I love the outtakes!

Mark another great episode. You just made me want to buy a 7 foot parabolic umbrella. How many watt seconds / ISO/ aperture were you using with the 7 foot parabolic umbrella?

snapresort i meant

Thats an AWESOME VIDEO!! One question, Can you please tell me where can i get a good kit with an umbrella and stands with light? Also in good wireless triggers ? PLEASE HELP!

I like it when real models are used. The Fro just uses a mannequin, lol

That very usefull.thank............

It would be great to have the metadata on each shot

The differece between the softbox and the umbrella as first shown (where the softbox makes the background darker) could be duplicated with the umbrella by moving the model and the umbrella a little further from the back ground, right? If so, would that make the only real difference be the shape of the catch lights?

Hi. What is the diameter of a large umbrella? Maybe you can write in cm.

Video helped me...

Does that umbrella stand walk around the studio when your not looking O_O

I'm always wondering, why it seems that the "tv" part of the logo is out of focus.. or is it just me?

Hi Mark, I have a quick question. I'm an amateur photographer starting to dabble in studio lighting. Which one would you recommend for starters: a black and white reflective parabolic umbrella with diffusion cover or a white diffusion parabolic umbrella?

Mark, I have a question please: What is the "Basic" difference between "PocketWizard" and the Nikon Wireless Speedlight Commander SU-800 and which one would you recommend for use with Nikon and Why? I hope you are kind enough to give me your opinion. Thanks, Mohummed

where did this show go too? It seemed to have disappeared !!!

In reality, if you weren't doing a video, would you have left the lights of the room off? And perhaps just use the modeling light of the moonlight to see? Or does it not make any difference?

I like looking really closely at catchlights in movie posters, that must mean i'm a pro too :p

I currently have a setup with umbrellas and would like to have lights that are more controllable in terms of direction. I have seen the apollo as well as rapid box. I can see that i can get a 43' apollo plus stip with a 16" x 30" Apollo Strip including the egg grid for about usd 200. looking at the rapid box the set (octa+stip) is smaller and about usd 400 plus i no egg grid included. Would you be able to point out the advantages and disadvantages of either set with speedlites? As photography does not create an income for me I am budget conscious but always believe in "buy it once, buy it right", too...

Has anyone over here noticed 'behind the scenes' part of each videos? Yes there are some deleted scenes which is funny at the very end part of most of the videos.

thanks i'm going to read it :)

Thanks so what is better? using flash or continues light?

How come the white background become gray? or even dark grey at 9:05? hope you can answer. thanks

probably on their channel "snapsort"

Hello sir can you difference me a speed box 70 and a diffuser can you kindly show me a video

Could be a D3s with a 24-70

Six weeks and counting. Where did you go Mark?

What Camera and lens are you shooting with Mark ?

at 7:25 you make a comparison, which is technically not the same comparison and you miss the most important point - Softbox was much closer to her face, and square law works better, making background darker. It is not becase of the Softbox itself, but the distance which you can control.

do the make round soft boxes?

Why do photographers light uo the wall separately in a studio shoot ????? what does that allow you to do?

Didnt i see this last week?

it would be great if you included beauty dish

what about a shoot through unbrella ?

Hi.. what I need to get the same result at 10:46 ... the westcott 7 feet Umbrella and what about the Monolight?... can I use the Flashpoint II 620M, 300 Watt??.... Please help.

I have found some of your videos are not working do you have a another link that I can download , they are working?

why no video this week?

What different affect do you have if we take the black skin off the umbrella and set the flash source to go through the umbrella?

Hi Sir Mark and everyone, I just want to ask this "Is the umbrella can be a continues light?" or " the umbrella is only for flash?" Please help. thanks :)