Lighting 201

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. 
Graduate to the next level of exposure mastery with Lighting 301 and Lighting 401 with Pye Jirsa.

• Chapter 1 Introduction
• Welcome to Lighting 201!
• OCF = Anytime/Anyplace
• Chapter 2 Introduction
• Wired, Infrared or Radio?
• “Pocket, Medium, Full Strobe?”
• Our 3 Favorite Flashes “Pocket Strobes”
• 4 More Flashes “Pocket Strobes” Worth Looking At
• Our 2 Favorite Medium Strobes
• Understanding Radios Part I: Channels & Groups
• Our 2 Favorite Radio Triggers
• 5 Simple Steps to Trouble Shooting Radios/OCFs
• Fantastic ND Filters at Any Price Range
• Our Favorite “Sticks”
• Our Favorite Ultra-Portable OCF Light Modifiers
• 12 Mounting and Must-Have Lighting Accessories
• Gear Setup - Setting Up a Light Stand or “Stick”
• Gear Setup - Setting Up a Monopod Light or “Boom Stick”
• Gear Setup - Setting Up a “Medium Boom Stick”
• Gear Setup - Setting Up a Manual Flash “Big Boom Stick”
• Gear Setup - Setting Up a Full Feature Flash “Big Boom Stick”
• Chapter 3 Introduction
• 8 Steps to Perfecting Each Scene & Image When Using OCF
• Over Powering the Sun - Part I
• Over Powering the Sun - Part II
• Slow Down! Watch the Details
• More Power Without The Power
• Adding to Existing Light - Part I
• Bare Bulbing with Large Groups
• Back Lighting to Create Interest
• Getting Crazy with the “Whip Pan”
• Chapter 4 Introduction
• The Flash Modifier You Already Own
• The Oh-So Powerful Umbrella
• Large Group Shots with an Umbrella
• Exposure Balancing via Lightroom
• Portable Softboxes - Westcott Apollo
• More Light Control, Just Grid It!
• Dusk + Modified Pocket Strobes
• More Power? Medium Strobes FTW!
• Perfect It In-Camera. Then Photoshop
• Adding to Existing Light - Part II
• Adding or Enhancing Light Direction
• Our Ideal Group Lighting Technique
• Incorporating Flares with Flash
• Cutting Light, Grids and GOBOs
• Chapter 5 Introduction
• Fog + Flash + Grid = Dramatic Change
• BYOL! The 3-Light Setup That Only Requires One Light!
• What About the Fill Light?
• Backlight + GOBO + Fog = Magic
• Drawing Attention via Light Shaping
• Visualizing Lights & Color Shifts
• Mixing Ambient + Gobo w/ Flash
• Better Light Can Change Everything!
• Chapter 6 Introduction
• Subtle Refinement = Massive Difference
• Great Light Changes Everything! Part II
• Manually Triggered RCS + Shutter Drag
• The Right Power for Each Scene
• Dodging and Burning via Light In-Camera
• Subtle Light for Natural Portraits
• Light Modification & Simple Compositing
• Expanding Your Photographic Vision