How to Capture Dramatic Senior Sports Portraits with Only One Light

Talented sports photographer and Westcott Top Pro Matt Hernandez takes viewers behind the scenes of a dramatic senior portrait photo shoot at sunset with the Zeppelin Deep Parabolic softbox and the Zeppelin Mounting Arm.

Matt choose to shoot this high school football player at dusk, allowing him to capture a beautiful sky in the background of these portraits. Shooting later in the day also allows photographers to create more dramatic lighting.

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[kingalias]

LOL, that's one heck of a "one light."

[eytech]

No one is shocked by the camera which is filming, getting insane sky in terms of cinematography thats lit !

[raidingtombs]

Nice. What was your post processing strategy?

[thesamedambub]

I am just getting into this, and on a budget until my work can help me get more gear. Thanks for the help in this video. If I was to invest in the Godox AD300 pro strobe and only use that 1 strobe for the mean time can I really get great shots like this?

[BooLee]

Nice tutorial. I want to give this a shot (no pun intended).
By the way, you remind me of Lucas Black.

[ConstanceSHanscomb]

One light works well if you have stadium lighting to use as rim lighting!

[DEDEBCL]

This is probably dumb but how Do you power the umbrellas? Or any lighting sources in general in an outdoor photoshoot?? I cannot understand this part at all, please help

[leisuresteve]

Just for disclosure purposes, the parabola from Westcott runs $699. I don't think I even need to look at the pricing for the Profoto gear which is equally astronomical. C'mon people, you can do more with less. This is for people that slap themselves on the back for the amount they spent on their gear.

[ElPescadoMan]

In what setting did you have your white balance?

[natashalipsa]

wonderful, as I am a photographer in learning, how much would you charge for a session like this? How much would you charge for a team? Thank you very much!

[trerobinson]

Do you happen to remember your camera setting? Or what do you recommend shooting at?

[JustinCase]

Technically the stadium lights are helping so it not just "one light"

[EmmaBroxterman]

Okay but what about all the field lights. 😅

[kainirmo]

do you have those pictures in a downloadable format? im trying to teach high school kids about video/photography

[Podroots-]

bro, You mean, you did not go High Speed Sync??