Studio 🎙️ Simple

Simple Studio may refer to:

A digital design agency founded in 2022 by Guzmán Barquín, a multidisciplinary designer with 10 years of experience in digital products

A company that works with Australian style makers on residential, boutique commercial, and hospitality projects.  

• The length and hardness of a shadow is determined by the power of the light source, the distance to the subject and the type of light: direct or indirect. Compare this to your own shadow: on a sunny day, you have a long, hard shadow. On a cloudy day, your shadowis hardly visible. This is because the clouds have the same effect on the sunlight as a diffuser has on a studio flash: it makes the light more even and bounce around the subject.

• Additional lights can be used to light up the background. Using one ore more additional flashes, you can light it up evenly to eliminate shadows, or create a gradient effect. 

• Most flash kits come standard with diffusors. The purpose of a diffusor is to evenly spread the light, like clouds do with sunlight on a cloudy day. Another benefit is the reduction of reflections on glass objects and on faces, which for example makes a person look sweaty. A softbox is the most common solution. It has a reflecting silver layer on the inside, which bundles the light before it is emitted forward through a diffuser. This make the best use of the available light.

• The main advantage of an umbrella diffuser is the little time it takes to set it up. This makes it ideal for a portable studio. Compared to a softbox, however, more light is scattered so the lighting efficiency is less optimal. This can be compensated by turning the flash’s power up, or repositioning it closer to the subject.

•Reflectors are one of the most widely used tools in studio photography. You can use them to lighten up shadows, or to reflected a slightly colored light onto the subject. They come in various sizes and shapes, some are 5-in-1 or 7-in-1 with multiple colors you can choose from. They also enable you to make the best use of available daylight, when you don’t want to use lighting equipment.

•If you’re using studio flashes, ISO100 is a good starting point, with shutter speed 1/125. Of course you can experiment with this, but it often produces good results. The precise amount of light is a combination of aperture setting on your camera and the power setting on the studio flash(es). bipux.blogspot

•The fill light, at a lower power setting, provides depth. The optional reflector works as an effect light. It can be swapped with an additional flash if you like.

The background flashes, also optional, eliminate all shadows in the background.