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Behind the Scenes From my Nanlite Workshop

I had an awesome workshop this weekend using Nanlite continuous lights for portraits and I wanted to share a behind the scenes look from one of the setups. This shot of Layla was taken during one of the demos and this video breaks down every part of the process. I'll apologize now because I didn't take the time to put the images on the screen in the video, but you can see the giant TV behind me which will give you an idea of what the images looked like.

If you have questions about the setup or my process, feel free to leave those below and I will answer them as soon as I can!

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David Schneider

Oct 22

I enjoyed the video! How did you handle the white balance on your camera for using these lights - do you set the WB manually or use Auto? It looks like the camera WB matches the key light but the background lights are warmer to look more yellow.

Jeff Carpenter

Oct 22

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Thanks for watching the video David! Great question. I set my white balance manually to 5600 kelvin. Which matched the key and fill lights and then I warmed up the background and rim light to add a little dimension. I also shot this wide open at f/1.4 on an 85 mm lens to give it that really shallow depth of field and sort of mimic the compression of a medium format camera.

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Behind the Scenes From my Nanlite Workshop