The Secret to Bold Male Portraits | Portrait Lighting Techniques You Didn't Know!

Hi

Too good awesome

Amazing as usual....

lodi

excellent demonstration

My favorite type of video! Awesome looking studio, mate.

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Unarguably you are the most talented artist I know, you have succeeded to elevate Lighting to its prime place of importance in photography as a whole.

Thanks you so much for always inspiring us with your rich knowledge and incredible experience🙏🏻🙏🏻

Good video! Have you ever used a STARFISH ?

Was hoping for bald male portrait tips 😢😂

Truly amazing as usual.

Great video and techniques. I'm surprised you don't have some sort of trigger to adjust light intensity/exposure remotely from one spot, instead of having to go around to each separately for adjustments.

Awesome 👍

Very educative video. Thank's for sharing!

Can't thank you enough Karl for all the great things that I've been learning from you! Good luck and keep creating! ❤🙏

You are the best

Great walk through. Could you not have used a myler reglector on the shadow side, kicking light back from your key light? I like the octo on the bkgrd, since it created a nice gradient effect for just enough depth seperation. Nice masculine look.

I wish we could drop multiple likes: one for each light added. Not because multiple lights are cool (well they ARE) but because each added light improved an already attractive portrait.

Thanks for what you do for us...

Another fantastic example of real time problem solving and creative decision making with enough golden nuggets and technical insight to make everyone all warm and fuzzy. Thank you.

Amaizing, thank you!

Gives me hope. Thank you for sharing.

Thanks on tips getting props and furniture if going used it many times.

Great Video!

Karl knocks it out of the park again!

That's the Karl that got me to spend my hard earned cash on more lights and modifiers instead of the latest and greatest lenses. Great stuff. This is more valuable than just a good photo/result or justifying decision for good results after the fact. This is creative exploration and problem solving. Thanks Karl

Bless your heart, thanks for sharing, as always, great work, enjoyed every second :) learnt a lot, i'm sorry can't be there to give you a hand moving things around and handing you what you need ;)

kahma AI fixes this. Bold male portrait lighting techniques.

"As you've noticed I did not use the light meter, I don't really care, I can see it's overexposed" - Karl Taylor's brilliant comment.

Fabulous

fantastic tutorial Sir! thank you

What are your camera and flash settings? How come you don't use a flash meter?

That was a great explanation and demonstration, really like the before and after shots that show the changes.

If I was a Pro then I'd buy similar gear but this shows you can work wonders with budget kit (like NEEWER stuff and YONGNUO stuff ... which is what I have).

Decades ago when Romantic Glamour was all the rage, I saw a hole in the market, as most photography concentrated on photographing the female form. The male gender was somewhat neglected, sadly I didn;t know how to get it off the ground and it became known as 'Beefcake'.