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p.2 #1 · Lighting Setup Tools

Wow Kevin. That looks much better that my homemade drawings...

Thank you for sharing :-)

/Max

Sep 13, 2006 at 08:32 PM

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p.2 #2 · Lighting Setup Tools

OK guys... here ya go. Thanks for your kind remarks and I hope you can get some use out of this.

To use...
1) Download file LightingSetup.psd.zip (size 200k)
2) Unarchive the Zip file
3) Open the Photoshop file: LightingSetup.psd. (size 500k)
4) The file defaults with a Background, Subject and 35mm Camera.
5) To view (add) an item, open the appropriate folder and click on the item (as seen below). You click on the "eye" icon to make it visible or to hide it.
6) Move and rotate into place.
7) Save a copy of your finished setup. Don't save over original file (for future use).

That's about it.

Download here...
http://www.kevinkertz.com/fm/LightingSetup.psd.zip

Cheers.
Kevin

Sep 14, 2006 at 12:41 AM

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p.2 #3 · Lighting Setup Tools

Wow! Very nice indeed!

Thanks!!!

Sep 14, 2006 at 01:28 AM

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p.2 #4 · Lighting Setup Tools

This is just awesome. It will nice for people to use when asking for help when something doesn't work right with their setup. I would lik to see some props i.e...plants, chairs stairs and anything else that most people are using for the setup. Thank you so very much for the work that you have done. Mike

Sep 14, 2006 at 01:54 AM

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p.2 #5 · Lighting Setup Tools

this is great. thank you Kevin.

Sep 14, 2006 at 02:27 AM

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p.2 #6 · Lighting Setup Tools

Awesome !
thank you so much !

* Where did you get the symbols from ?

Sep 14, 2006 at 02:30 AM

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p.2 #7 · Lighting Setup Tools

Kevin, were these done in Illustrator or are they shapes in PSCS. Very cool. Thanks a lot. I am going to download now.

Sep 14, 2006 at 02:49 AM

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p.2 #8 · Lighting Setup Tools

Damn, Kevin.

This is really, really impressive.

Thank you so much for doing this.

Time to start working on my setups for this weekend's job.

Oh, and I told you your subject would look better than mine. Your's has ears!

Sep 14, 2006 at 03:08 AM

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p.2 #9 · Lighting Setup Tools

Numnum wrote:
Awesome !
thank you so much !

* Where did you get the symbols from ?

You're welcome! I created them in Adobe Illustrator.

To all...Glad you like it so far...Let me know if you have any additions/corrections, I plan on updating this when needed. I think I'm gonna skip the props, that would open another can of worms. Unless there's a demand for this...

Kevin

Sep 14, 2006 at 03:12 AM

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p.2 #10 · Lighting Setup Tools

never before has one man done so much for so many.....i'm just starting ouy in lighting and this will help tremendously

thanx

Sep 14, 2006 at 04:00 AM

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p.2 #11 · Lighting Setup Tools

Awesome, thank you very much Kevin.

Edited by David-D on Sep 14, 2006 at 10:33 AM GMT

Sep 14, 2006 at 05:32 AM

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p.2 #12 · Lighting Setup Tools

Ok, this has to be one of the coolest darn things I've seen. Uber props to ya Kevin!

Sep 14, 2006 at 05:43 AM

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p.2 #13 · Lighting Setup Tools

Thanks a lot kevin, these will come in very handy!

Sep 14, 2006 at 12:38 PM

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p.2 #14 · Lighting Setup Tools

Wow! Thanks so much for putting your time in to this and sharing it!

Sep 14, 2006 at 02:08 PM

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p.2 #15 · Lighting Setup Tools

Thanks, Kevin. Now I'm hoping to see some diagrams and images from my fellow FMers so that I can get started on shooting in my living room studio. My AB800s and misc. Alien Bees equipment arrived on Tuesday, and my Sekonic L358 arrives today, so I'm ready to get started

Oh, and I have 4 books on order from Amazon on lighting and posing. I've been shooting action shots and sports portraits up until now, so this will be a huge help even if I just use it to log my own setups and examples.

Okay, folks. Lets see you put Kevin's hard work to use! I need the help

Sep 14, 2006 at 02:20 PM

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p.2 #16 · Lighting Setup Tools

kkertz wrote:
Numnum wrote:
Awesome !
thank you so much !

* Where did you get the symbols from ?

You're welcome! I created them in Adobe Illustrator.

Kevin

Kevin, I hate to sound ungrateful, but is there any way we could convince you to make the Illy versions available? I'm an old ad guy, and break out in hives when I see great vector artwork rasterized.

If you want to make this a commercial library, I'm ready to put some money behind that request.

Sep 14, 2006 at 08:06 PM

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p.2 #17 · Lighting Setup Tools

Kevin,

I have a couple of suggestions that came out of trying to map out a setup from a couple weeks ago.

Strip softbox - both in horizontal and vertical orientation.

Overhead softbox - I often will boom a light overhead and there was no real good way to represent that.

Scrim with no light - can you do just a scrim/diffusion panel with no light? I often have several around and not all with lights.

I'm with Eric too. I'd love to have the Ill versions and would be willing to pay a reasonable sum to get them.

Note that I know that if you do this you cannot advertise for this here on FM. That's strictly against the rules. Perhaps you could work out a deal with Fred? He get's a little percentage? Just an idea.

Todd

Sep 15, 2006 at 06:37 PM

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p.2 #18 · Lighting Setup Tools

Thank you Kevin for sharing your work!

In our studio we use a strip softbox with grid and snoots I don't see in your list.

This will make it easy for me to keep a set-up file in with my digital negatives for future studies while learning lighting.
Can't say thanks enough... and thanks to Manny for directing me to this thread too.

Cheers,
She

Sep 16, 2006 at 09:49 AM

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p.2 #19 · Lighting Setup Tools

Kevin,

This is outstanding. I love it. I went ahead and added backgrounds in multiple colors but I don't know that such a thing would be worth you adding as it was easy enough to do.

Thanks a ton for this great tool.

Sep 17, 2006 at 11:07 PM

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p.2 #20 · Lighting Setup Tools

This is an amazing help Kevin. Thank you once again!

Sep 18, 2006 at 12:35 AM

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p.2 #21 · Lighting Setup Tools

The coolest single thing I ever found on the net. As someone said - You could make money from this. I am not asking you to do this - Just saying I would pay for a program if I could use it like this:

Print out a clean grid or better yet just have the laptop there

Do set-up and just enter text like LOB 6,6 8 45 45 f5.6and the program would put a large octabox at xy location 6,6 axis offset 45 degrees with notes that it is 8 feet high and pointing down at 45 degrees and set at f5.6 - AND do it in real time as I entered it.

Better yet just have dialoge boxes

Add light

X Y location

Axis

Height

etc.

Finnished...

All I am saying is that the possibilities are endless and if you printed out all the responses you got from this thread and showed them around you could probably get someone to throw in a little money to back you/get you started.

Sep 18, 2006 at 07:23 PM

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p.2 #22 · Lighting Setup Tools

Kevin I take my comments back. The way you did it is just like a drop down menu and they can be draged and rotated etc.

Perfect the way it is.

Still think you should try to figure out a way to sell it.

Sep 18, 2006 at 10:33 PM

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p.2 #23 · Lighting Setup Tools

Cmon somebody show us some cool lighting setups already :P

I would but I dont know anything about lighting

Sep 19, 2006 at 08:17 PM

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p.2 #24 · Lighting Setup Tools

I second the motion.

Mufutau

bfox2 wrote:
Cmon somebody show us some cool lighting setups already :P

I would but I dont know anything about lighting

Sep 20, 2006 at 05:23 AM

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p.2 #25 · Lighting Setup Tools

http://www.fredmiranda.com/forum/topic/452677

Sep 21, 2006 at 04:22 AM


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