Lighting 201 – SLR Lounge – Pye Jirsa

Lighting 201 Information

Gain Confidence In Full Lighting Setups.

Lighting 201 builds on the simple foundational tips on effective exposure techniques found in Lighting 101. Lighting 201 comprises 10 hours of education on advanced, off-camera flash lighting over nearly 20 different shoots. You will learn just how much can be achieved with just one inexpensive off-camera light source.

In this course, Pye Jirsa of SLR Lounge give you tips on how to:

Use light manipulation to turn extreme lighting situations like the midday sun or the night sky into stunning background imagery for portraiture.

Develop a sense of placement strategy in shoots with complex lighting and limited, portable gear

Composite images in post-production to achieve the best possible light

Lighting 201 will also help you develop fluency in using the right light modifiers for the job, whether they be speed-lights, strobes or main-lights. Lighting 201 also features an in-depth exploration of the mechanics of professional lighting gear and step-by-step walkthroughs of the gear setup for each shoot.

Here’s what you’ll learn

1. Chapter 1 Introduction
2. Welcome To Lighting 201!
3. OCF = Anytime/Anyplace
4. Chapter 2 Introduction
5. Wired, Infrared Or Radio?
6. “Pocket, Medium, Full Strobe?”
7. Our 3 Favorite Flashes “Pocket Strobes”
8. 4 More Flashes “Pocket Strobes” Worth Looking At
9. Our 2 Favorite Medium Strobes
10. Understanding Radios Part I: Channels & Groups
11. Our 2 Favorite Radio Triggers
12. 5 Simple Steps To Trouble Shooting Radios/OCFs
13. Fantastic ND Filters At Any Price Range
14. Our Favorite “Sticks”
15. Our Favorite Ultra-Portable OCF Light Modifiers
16. 12 Mounting And Must-Have Lighting Accessories
17. Gear Setup – Setting Up A Light Stand Or “Stick”
18. Gear Setup – Setting Up A Monopod Light Or “Boom Stick”
19. Gear Setup – Setting Up A “Medium Boom Stick”
20. Gear Setup – Setting Up A Manual Flash “Big Boom Stick”
21. Gear Setup – Setting Up A Full Feature Flash “Big Boom Stick”
22. Chapter 3 Introduction
23. 8 Steps To Perfecting Each Scene & Image When Using OCF
24. Over Powering The Sun – Part I
25. Over Powering The Sun – Part II
26. Slow Down! Watch The Details
27. More Power Without The Power
28. Adding To Existing Light – Part I
29. Bare Bulbing With Large Groups
30. Back Lighting To Create Interest
31. Getting Crazy With The “Whip Pan”
32. Chapter 4 Introduction
33. The Flash Modifier You Already Own
34. The Oh-So Powerful Umbrella
35. Large Group Shots With An Umbrella
36. Exposure Balancing Via Lightroom
37. Portable Softboxes – Westcott Apollo
38. More Light Control, Just Grid It!
39. Dusk + Modified Pocket Strobes
40. More Power? Medium Strobes FTW!
41. Perfect It In-Camera. Then Photoshop
42. Adding To Existing Light – Part II
43. Adding Or Enhancing Light Direction
44. Our Ideal Group Lighting Technique
45. Incorporating Flares With Flash
46. Cutting Light, Grids And GOBOs
47. Chapter 5 Introduction
48. Fog + Flash + Grid = Dramatic Change
49. BYOL! The 3-Light Setup That Only Requires One Light!
50. What About The Fill Light?
51. Backlight + GOBO + Fog = Magic
52. Drawing Attention Via Light Shaping
53. Visualizing Lights & Color Shifts
54. Mixing Ambient + Gobo W/ Flash
55. Better Light Can Change Everything!
56. Chapter 6 Introduction
57. Subtle Refinement = Massive Difference
58. Great Light Changes Everything! Part II
59. Manually Triggered RCS + Shutter Drag
60. The Right Power For Each Scene
61. Dodging And Burning Via Light In-Camera
62. Subtle Light For Natural Portraits
63. Light Modification & Simple Compositing
64. Expanding Your Photographic Vision

About Author

Pye Jirsa is a lifelong learner who has made a career out of creating frameworks. These frameworks have helped millions learn languages, develop creativity, master photography, succeed in business, and even improve their communication within personal relationships.

As a founder and partner of SLR Lounge, Pye has taught and inspired thousands of photographers around the world with frameworks that make seemingly complex and intimidating topics simple and approachable. His frameworks have also helped create and scale Lin and Jirsa Photography, a boutique Socal wedding and portrait photography studio composed of a large creative team that shoots over 300 weddings each year, with nearly 1,000 yearly client commissions. In addition, as the host of the Think Stupid Simple podcast, Pye engages in long-form conversations with smart, successful people with diverse backgrounds and experiences to uncover their stupid-simple frameworks for success and happiness.

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