Never Forget Another Lighting Setup - Flash Power Notation

Never Forget Another Lighting Setup - Flash Power Notation | Mark Wallace

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Mark Wallace explains his method for diagraming his lighting setups. Mark uses "flash power notation" to record the relative values of all of the lights. This system is effective because it uses the Delta EV feature of Sekonic light meters. This allows you to quickly adjust entire lighting setups and keep all ratios the same.
Never Forget Another Lighting Setup!
0:00 Introduction
1:30 An overview of the lighting setup
2:20 Diagraming overview
2:45 Delta EV Mode for Measuring relative values
3:22 Diagraming and metering the Key Light
5:40 Diagraming and metering the Fill Light
7:19 Diagramming and metering the Kicker Lights
9:00 Diagramming the Separation light.
10:30 Taking additional photos for record-keeping
11:30 Final thoughts and suggestions
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@markpatterson2718 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Mr Wallace you were one of the 1st tutors I had with Sean Tucker

@alexanderpons9246 2 жыл бұрын

What a great Master Class on Light set up, thank you Mark Wallace! We are so fortunate in current times as we have access to such great videos with valuable information, thank you ADORAMA for this wonderful channel so we all can make great use of all the Photo Gear you have on your Store!

@tommydaynjer5334 2 жыл бұрын

This is a fun way to remember! What I personally use is my phone camera to take several shots of the setup, then import the photos into GoodNotes 5 and write all over it for distances, flash powers, etc!

@Karlita91100 2 жыл бұрын

I love this and I do it too. I also take a picture (with my iPhone) of a pull-back of my lighting set up, and include a photo from the session with that lighting. I’m a beginner and that makes it much easier for me to visualize.

@diegoeidelman 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you Mark! I'm use to record a small video for most of my studio shoots. Sometimes I take wide angle shots. That's a good idea and very handy. I will start adding the settings in the wide shots that I keep in the sessions folders. Cheers from Buenos Aires!

@mengkehsiehphoto 2 жыл бұрын

This is a great video. It's very important to document everything, so photographers can save time in the future! Thank you!

@tgchism 2 жыл бұрын

Great video! It all makes perfect sense! Thank you! Oddly enough besides photography I bake sourdough bread and this all works very much like the bakers percentage. In that you know the weight of the flour and all other ingredients are a prescribed percentage of the flour. Allows you to write it as a formula along with a process description. As in your set up it allows you to get the same results every time!

@andyv6127 2 жыл бұрын

That was super. Well articulated and enjoyable to watch

@Maz-2393 7 ай бұрын

Amazing tips Mark! Thank you so much.

@ipedder68 2 жыл бұрын

Fantastic video as always. Love your work. Thank you for doing what you do 👍

@TimothyJohnLukeSmithPSA 2 жыл бұрын

Mark, this is amazing and Teresa is an incredible model!

@albertr915 2 жыл бұрын

Awesome video, and awesome information. This is something I will start doing myself. Mark thank you for this great video, and great information.

@luisarevalo6112 2 жыл бұрын

I photograph with continuous lights and planning to include one speedlight (but not a light meter, keeping with in a budget). Going forward I'll be making notes of lighting ideas and then include the results into the notes! Your video has been very helpful, thank you.

@mhc2b 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Mark for a wonderful way of remembering. Using the key light as "ground zero" is perfect!! Taking wide angle pictures of the set up and model is icing on the cake! As a "side note," I see lots of " digitally-created diagrams" being used by You Tubers, but cannot seem to find where to find these online. Your method would work perfect with some of these preset diagrams - just fill in the blanks so to speak.

@otavioleitefotografia 2 жыл бұрын

Cool!

@focus1ist 2 жыл бұрын

Great!

@AtlanticPicture 2 жыл бұрын

i take a pic of the setup with my phone and add notes on the pic. (super easy w a Note ;))

@LongTimeTTFan 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks, Mark. I tried this and it works IF all the elements remain the same each time: the same light modifiers, from the same distances (subject, lights, camera, background, etc.), and the same background color, etc. If I change one, I may have to change others, sometimes, significantly.

@RonK Жыл бұрын

Great, thanks. I think, there's no need to press the memory button, since this (and its memory-places) is used to average different lights or levels of brightness. In order to get Delta-Values, just measure one light, then toggle the AVE/dEV-button once, and from here all subsequent measurements are shown as delta EV. To begin a new series (measure an other initial value), just toggle the AVE/dEV-button again. You don't need the memory-function to display differences

@craighousesounddesign5944 2 жыл бұрын

Same idea as writing music with I IV V. Then it doesn't matter what key your in. Great idea, now I just need to save up for a light meter. :-)

@MarkWallaceVideos 2 жыл бұрын

exactly right! That's the perfect way to think of this.

@aljawad 2 жыл бұрын

My technique is very similar to yours, Mark. The difference is I take note of the locations/displacements between the lights and walls on graph-paper type logbook.

@AV84USA 2 жыл бұрын

Gary Bernstein was showing this in his books since 1984. The EV is useful, but aperture is MORE useful, especially with people photography.

@jpdj2715 2 жыл бұрын

I'm with Mark on EV. If you shoot different lenses (formats) then it gives an abstraction that is very convenient.

@DylanRichardson841 2 жыл бұрын

I have a Sekonic L-308s and it does not have the Delta EV option. Is there a way that I can calculate it using this light meter?

@faryapirbazari5861 2 жыл бұрын

It's the story of amateurs like myself; we don't have the luxury of delta(EV) with 308. So go with f stops, easy. Select your key (f/8 for instance), then if you want the fill to be -1 adjust it for f/5.6, background at -2 should look for f/4, etc.

@shiralikerim1781 2 жыл бұрын

👏

@rejeanbrandt 2 жыл бұрын

A backwards approach is to do your setups virtually in set.a.light 3D without having to be in the studio, the print out the diagram for when you are in the studio.

@jjaylad 2 жыл бұрын

Great idea Mark. LOVE that you are storing the photos of the setup right in Lightroom! I'd really love it if my Sekonic L358 would work in the presence of any LED or Fluorescent lighting. My studio is all LED and the meter thinks flashes are firing so it just errors out. Won't even handle an LED head-mounted flashlight I can use the modelling lights but my old style Flashpoint 600's have battery packs so I like to use them a lot so they discharge and can be recharged to avoid non-use degradation. What kind of ambient light does your studio have?

@Justin-hn9uv 2 жыл бұрын

For what it is worth I have this exact same problem. I have Lifx lights which are "smart lights' you can dim and change colour. When I first purchased my light meter (same as Mark's) I thought it was faulty because when I tried to meter flash the rooms lights would trigger the light meter. It took me forever to realise the meter was fine, it was the room lights tripping the meter.

@larryb0315 6 ай бұрын

Hi Mark, I just saw this video! Thank you for this information. I am looking at getting the Sekonic L478U meter from Adorama, does that meter a have Delta EV Mode like the meter you are using in this video? Thank you for sharing all of your knowledge!

@MarkWallaceVideos 2 ай бұрын

It does have the delta EV feature! Great meter.

@narendra672 2 жыл бұрын

👍

@rphotographer 2 жыл бұрын

is your meter calibrated to your camera?

@andreasblohm9173 2 жыл бұрын

I'm sorry, but after a year I didn't remember me how far away the kickerlight was from my subject.

@MarkWallaceVideos 2 жыл бұрын

just add the distance to your diagram. 2 seconds and you're done. :)

@RimantasLiubertas 2 жыл бұрын

Distances are extremely important. Without them all this in vain.

@MarkWallaceVideos 2 жыл бұрын

Just write it in. Very simple to add it.

@Justin-hn9uv 2 жыл бұрын

This is a cool approach. I think the idea of having and taking field notes is a bit of a lost practice, unfortunately.

@Expprods Жыл бұрын

Why such a complex setup, I do notations of my setting using audio recording always try to keep things simple. You went too all this complexity just to prove a simple point “Always Record Your Settings”.

@fostervf16 2 жыл бұрын

This is ok if you plan on not moving your lights. As many said here distance is huge factor too. Without knowing exactly how these 5 lights were set up, including all distance measurements, this whole technique is almost worthless. Even though you mentioned this, you did not go onto it. And it's just as important. So I would make a follow up discussing this. Or possibly delete this one and start over again.

@mhc2b 2 жыл бұрын

As Mark did point out, if distance is important, simply measure, and write down the distance from the subject to each light.

@nmelcam1 2 жыл бұрын

Or you could just put in the actual value of the lights e.g. Key 1/8th, Fill 1/16.3 Kickers, 1/32 and snoot 1/64 and then in the remote use the Select All button (at least the Flashpoint R2 Pro Mark II does have this function) and when you change the Key light all others change respectively in value :-) If you change the Key light to 1/4th power all other will increase by the same amount and vice versa, if you lower it to 1/32 power all others will go down also. One button, no math problems to solve, the remote does the math for you, hurray LOL