Lighting 101 - Three Point Lighting Tutorial

In this video I walk you through 3-Point Lighting and surprise 4-point lighting!. Covering Key, Fill, edge / kicker and hair lights.

You can use this same approach for studio photography, filmmaking and videography

GEAR:

Sekonic LiteMaster Pro L-478DR-U-EL Series Light Meter for Elinchrom EL Skyport System

Elinchrom ELC 500

Elinchrom ELB 500 TTL Dual To Go Kit

Elinchrom Litemotiv 120cm Parabolic Softbox

Elinchrom Indirect Litemotiv Octa Softbox (75″)

Elinchrom Indirect Litemotiv Strip Softbox (13 x 69″)

Elinchrom Rotalux Stripbox 35x90cm

[JonathanMalaer]

Should be titled lighting contrast 101 because that's really the gold in this video! Awesome job!

[limburger]

Great demo John! I always appreciate it when you show each light in isolation, then all together 👍

[stephanepiquet]

Hello from France John! Thanks for your time and your good advices !
Such a pleasure to see you showing us this great classic-looking 3 points lighting.
See you in the next one :)

[MrJnasty]

Another fantastic tutorial, thanks again for wonderful content!

[TheMrsamuelcm]

Exceptional as always! Thank you John.

[yuliyapanchenko]

I need to start using my light meter too. This video is a good refresher. Almost forgot how to use it :))

[dukegreer]

Love this video and it really help me to understand hot to light a subject like this

[petemcknight]

Straight up solid gold info from the Windy City. Great video tutorial!

[gilmarful]

Thanks for the class ! Hugs from Brazil.

[gphotographybyg]

Awesome stuff. I'll have to practice this next week.

[RexxReviews]

Great video as always, looking forward to seeing you at Imaging USA 2022!

[peterfritzphoto]

Outstanding tutorial, John - thank you. 😄🇦🇺🦘

[firat.tas.photographer]

Thank you John! greetings from istanbul 🙋🏽‍♂️

[auxsom]

this looks like an amazing video. cant wait to watch it. looking for your c-stand video tho. how to setup it up. saved this one and will come back to it.

[edwardrodriguezphotographe]

It would be amazing have a video about feathered light. Thank you so much for all these info! Greetings from Medellín Colombia

[artursandwich]

It would also be very enlightening to see side by side the fully lit picture with one with just the key, than with key and fill, and with one with key and rim - to not only see what each light is doing, but also what difference it makes.

[jankolman]

GREAT as usually! Thank you for your time you are spending with whole yours you change my comfortability of photoshooting because of your seconic! :-) I'm using L-358....let's say was using...I order L-478 for elinchrom today :-) !!! So thank you again. Best regards Jan (please be patient with my english...I'm from Czech republic, so I can spek česky very well but english ?? :-)))

[moejuggs]

great informative video. how do you prevent lens flare/loss of contrast from the kicker light?

[andreak]

fantastic breakdown and the final looks wonderful! I truly appreciate that you include the different light ratios off the main/key! This is the absolute needed steps to understand what each light is doing - the individual shots showing each light alone as well… I find it annoying that many “teachers” do vids like this minus all the important info breakdown, they show an image, the bts light positions only and then give the camera model/lens used and the 1 & only main f/stop it was shot at 🙄🥱which pretty much tells/shows nothing as to all the important elements at work to bring it all together for the final image - i understand many do this and then sell learning tutorials on the side but often many still do not mention light’g ratios beyond the key light 🤦🏻‍♀️ Your channel is why i want to get into one of your lighting workshops someday when you are in my area!! Thank you for all your efforts and sharing your knowledge John 🙏🏼🙏🏼
The experimenting / learning time has been greatly reduced for me and i can shoot at any f/stop as Key and adjust accordingly with your ratios and or tweak as per my desired look 👍🏼👍🏼

[MileyonDisney]

Excellent! Thank you for having the fill light by the camera, and not opposite the main light, as so many instructors teach - unless you just did it because of the small space. hehe. I like how you leave in your misspeaks and corrections, rather than editing and re-doing the shot. The hair light was very subtle, but what a difference it made! Can you help me with something? There was a brand of lighting that was popular with pros, that went out of business a year or so ago (maybe up to 4 years). Could you please tell me the name of that brand? Thanks!