Mastering the properties of light is one of the most critical parts of studio lighting. In this short video, Jeff Rojas discusses how you can create dramatic portraits with a single softbox.
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40 responses to “Dramatic Portraits – Learn to Master Your Softbox with Jeff Rojas”
Great instruction. This be great for E Commerce or personal projects. Thanks Jeff and Adorama.
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Thank you very much.
Greatly appreciate this🤙🏽
The hair and makeup was on point too
To the point and straightforward. Those four elements are key to assess the lighting for the shoot. Thank you.
4.5yrs old YT vid and still totally relevant. thank you for the effort and the sharing. thumbs up.
Will you ever release another book on posing men?
Love it. Jeff’s work is always superb 👌
just what I needed to know..thanks!
Great video
Very useful video , I learned lot from it, looking forward more videos like this keep it up good work, R.manohar , india,
very inspiring!
I wish these videos were a bit longer so we could see in a bit more detail how he positions the light with an explanation during the shoot.
First time I've seen Jeff. He did a a great job and gave some hints for practice.
So simple. One light is all you really need to get started!
This is great. I'm a tad confused tho. How are you killing the ambient light so well with such a low shutter speed? Most photographers are ramping up their shutter speed to kill all ambient light so that they can shoot at a wider aperture, but you're using a wide aperture and a shutter speed of only 1/200th…
Is that the actor from "The Pretender", Michael T. Weiss?
You had me at liking it simple.some of us don't have the luxury ofsophisticated settings and lights👍🏼
Appreciate I’m coming to this video a bit after it was posted but as someone who is about to shoot some dramatic head shots in his second bedroom, this has been invaluable
Good video – short & sweet! I also appreciate you using male models. There are soooo many videos out there with female models and as someone getting into more portraiture it's nice to have a better balance of male & female subjects.
Very useful, and excellent example shots. Thanks!
You are good Jeff! Like it; love to work with a single light..
Beautiful!
Thank you, Jeff! You are fantastic. =)
Good stuff.
Thank you for sharing, those are amazing photo's. I wonder what kind of WB setting are you using?
are those pictures edited?
microphone… please get one. still very good and informative video.
Great video. I was wondering about the mirrors in your studio. Do the mirrors have specific applications to your photography?
As a beginner, i wonder why did you use smaller softbox here instead of large, say 7 feet softbox, like you did in other your video with 7' umbrella? How do you choose if you don;t need a very large softbox? Because you wanted shadows to be harsher or because you are shooting close-up and smaller is sufficient? Thank you!
thanks! gorgeous photography. Is it really one softbox and no shadows on the background?
I guess your white light room helps here. In dark environment it will be darker, right?
I struggled to hear what your are saying.
Jeff Rojas is the best by far. At least he is my hero in male model photography. Thank you!
Nice Jeff, I love your videos and you always have useful information!
But question for you….this is showing how to maximize using just one softbox. Would you actually ever realistically use this setup on a paid shoot for the effect? I have many lights and modifiers, but often times I tend to over complicate things. How do you decide from the start ?
People can copy your (and many others) light setups, their frustration is often WHAT to use in situations, not HOW to use. NOT a criticism at all as you are very specific about what this video is about and you give great info and ideas on it, but more a request for a video explaining how you decide on what lights and modifiers you will use on a shoot.
THANKS!
Thanks for the good video. But please lose the annoying and distracting background "music".
jeff u rock
Maybe i am wrong but i think there should be no difference on the background if you adjust the power of the flash by the same amount as you close your appature. As far as i know the light halves when you close your apature by one stop. If you than double the poweroutlet of your flash there should be no difference in brightness neither on the models face nor on the background. I like your videos and photos thank you.
It is excellent！
he's the man
Great shots. Pithy explanation. Worth pointing out that only the top brands allow you to reduce power to the extent that you get falloff at that distance.