David Honl Lighting Video: Belly Dancer
American photojournalist David Honl, who is based in Istanbul, has posted a video of a belly dancer shoot. In it, he uses his snoots, gobos and gels to create zones of light in a very small room.
I like his idea of gobo'ing a flash on the bottom to keep the floor from being too hot in the foreground. Always neat to see other peoples' workflow.
David manufactures light modifiers and sells them via his website, with grid spots for speedlights coming soon. More info at his site.
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I wonder why did he use a shutter speed of 1/30 if it was all lit by flash. Any ideas??
Thanks D. Honl for adding these on-location videos to your website! It's great to see creative yet simple uses of the snoots and gobos.
This is a beautiful region (and people) to work with, having had photo assignments in this area (Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, etc.).
Looking forward to the release of the Honl grids.
Simple and beautiful. Shot in a room that could have been any office or living room anywhere, with three (nearly) bare flashes, and it comes out looking like a million bucks.
We'll all be able to do this after this Saturday, right?
Right?
Cycle61 Photography
I also photographed belly dancers a few weeks ago using two SB-800s, one as a main light firing into a reflecting umbrella and an other sometimes as a fill light some other times as a hair or rim light.
My related article is here
My first thought was "great model", second was "you're using those cheezy drapes as a background??". But lit with the red light, it totally worked. Thanks for a great post!
That's Istanbul, not Constantinople, right?
Very interesting, amazing how he gets a very cold and boring room to look warm and atmospheric.
One question though - why use a 1/30 sec shutter speed? For a bit of ambient on the curtain maybe?
NICE! Looks great! Thanks for the vid. My question is, if I am shooting JPG and not RAW and I have my warming gels in place, what WB setting do I use on the camera? If I set it to 3200K it defeats the purpose of the gel. 5300K is like the flash symbol. If I set it to the flash symbol, it looks too warm.
And on his spare time, he voices Cleveand from Family Guy :-)
Isn't simplicity a beautiful word..
Hey David! I'm from Istanbul and live in the US. Enjoy my city.
Slower shutter speed, in this case 1/30, when using flash makes it possible to show more details in the otherwise dark background.
Foreground objects are lit by the flash while background by ambient.
Wow. very cool. Thanks for sharing this video, bellydancing is so entertaining to watch`!
Awesome job and way to improvise! Now where do you get that gorgeous curtain??
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Ed: My question is, why did Constantinople get the works? I suppose it's nobodies business but the Turks'.
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