Studio Portrait Lighting Essentials for Iray
Details
Vladimir Chopine AKA "GeekAtPlay" is a professional studio photographer, who has built lighting setups for hundreds of portrait photoshoots. He also has provided training for many years to professional digital artists all over the world and recognizes lighting to be crucial in creativity.
In this video tutorial set, Vladimir introduces the basics of real-world lighting, how it works, and then parallels this with lighting in DAZ Studio using Iray for portrait lighting setups.
He teaches about these principles:
Luminosity and shape
Parallax
Saturation and depth
3D translating to 2D
Gradients and contrast
Hard and soft shadows
Light source types in DAZ
Softbox modifiers
Light panels
Light geometry
This product includes a searchable video set with a duration of just over 1 hour plus a 22 PDF guide on lighting setups for various portrait situations.
This includes a bonus Portrait Lighting workshop (1.5 hours) where a selection of DAZ Studio artists showed:
Types of classic portrait lighting setups
Butterfly/Loop/Rembrandt/Split lighting
Tips on lighting skin for older characters Catchlights
Using colored lighting for portraits
Using reflectors
Re-creating a real-world photography studio for portraits
Side lighting for dramatics
Recommended portrait lighting resources for DAZ Studio artists Three-point lighting
Using lights one at a time
Presenter: Vladimir Chopine
The founder of Geekatplay and with a background in film production and computer sciences, 3D graphics have long provided a passionate pursuit for Vladimir, with a particular specialism in VUE. Serving 3D digital artists across the world, he has created over 2000 tutorials on VUE, The PlantFactory, Photoshop, Terragen, World Machine, and a whole range of digital art software.
Originally from Moscow, he lives with his wife Ami Chopin, who is a professional writer in Salt Lake City, Utah.
What's Included and Features
Studio Portrait Lighting Essentials for Iray
Total Running Time:
2 Hours 40 Minutes
Total File size:
1.28 GB
Video 1: Introduction to Portrait Lighting: 5 minutes (.MP4)
00:00 What is a portrait?
00:01 Starting from a minimalist position
00:02 Dozens of portrait examples from Vladimir's portfolio.
00:03 It is getting easier for portrait artists
00:04 Telling a story with a portrait
Video 2: Understanding how lighting works: 31 minutes (.MP4)
00:00 How the 3D real world is represented in 2D
00:02 How luminosity provides a sense of 3D and depth.
00:04 Two plain characters rendered in DAZ - one with high specular lighting
00:06 Perspective lines example with a DAZ character in a library set
00:08 The importance of Parallax
00:10 Why depth of field matters for portraits
00:12 Why saturation helps with depth
00:14 Graduated examples of going from 2D to 3D perceived objects
00:16 Definitions and examples: Luminosity, Reflection, and Contrast.
00:19 Colour and luminosity information in a portrait.
00:21 Gradients and contrast. Precision of sharpness/softness for lighting.
00:22 Types of light sources in DAZ Studio
00:24 Hard shadows and the effects they provide
00:25 Sphere primitive demonstrating soft and shadows
00:28 Special lighting modifiers for point lights shown in Set.a.light 3D
Video 3 : Creating portrait lighting sources in DAZ Studio: 32 minutes (.MP4)
00:00 Light types in DAZ Studio - when to use them.
00:02 More on Set.a.light 3D lighting modifiers
00:04 Why most light types in DAZ Studio provide a harsher light.
00:05 About soft box light modifiers
00:07 In DS - using side by side view, with wire shaded for one view.
00:09 A word on posing
00:11 How luminosity influences shape
00:13 Adding a point light and setting the luminosity
00:15 The effects of a spotlight. Create a new light source with a primitive plane.
00:16 Pros and cons with light panels.
00:18 Switch emission color
00:20 The result of soft box lighting
00:22 Rembrandt lighting on subject.
00:23 Adding in environmental lighting
00:25 Move point light to provide rim lighting.
00:26 About light geometry and how to change it.
00:28 Render test
00:30 Adjustment ideas
Bonus video: portrait character lighting workshop: 90 minutes (.MP4)
00:00 Introduction
00:03 Four classic portrait lighting types
00:11 Peter von Stackelberg using stock DAZ spotlights and ghost lights
00:13 Character lit with a single light
00:14 Tips on lighting middle aged skin
00:16 Portrait background hinting at story context.
00:20 Daniel Wright realistic portraits
00:21 About catchlights
00:23 Using blue lighting
00:24 Fain - cyberpunk portrait with emissive body art.
00:28 Fantasy portrait - unflattering light for antagonist.
00:32 Karen Williams- Low level light for portraits
00:38 Lighting a male figure
00:40 Gobo lighting on a figure
00:43 Heavy shadowing on a character creating drama
00:44 Leyla Munteanu - fashion lighting set
00:52 Rotate the character rather than the lights and camera.
00:55 Lighting bringing out texturing
00:56 Squint at an image to figure out the highlights
00:58 Discussion on avoiding distractions by lighting eg double shadows.
01:02 Trevor Hancock - Boquet lighting for characters
01:10 Easy portrait lights product: soft lighting
01:13 Various characters lit by Bokeh studio HDR lighting.
01:14 Using Bokeh studio
01:16 Slater Lewis - Three point lighting
01:18 Add lights one at a time to test and adjust
01:19 Render using one light at a time and layer the renders.
01:22 Reflectors
01:28 Ian Franklin - Pin up Box Bundle - Rembrandt lighting example
01:30 Kathleen Sibo shares two pieces of artwork.
Documentation: Lighting Setup Guide : 22 pages (.PDF)
Portrait sitting: one light setup
Portrait, lay down. Two light setups.
Portrait, kneel. Two light setups.
Portrait, closeup. One light setup.
Portrait, couples. Three light setups.
Portrait, sitting, closeup. One light setup.
Portrait, standing, full length. One light setup.
Portrait, standing, full length. Color gels.
Document: StudioPortraitLightingSearchable (.PDF)
Link for searchable video library set
https://www.daz3d.com/studio-portrait-lighting-essentials-for-iray
File Hosting: Mega.nz
