 Welcome to the Crimson Engine. My name is Rebedium. Today we are talking Instagram. A couple of months ago I was talking to a friend of mine who has, I want to say, 400,000 Instagram followers and shoots a lot. Like he posts every single day. He has, you know, hundreds and hundreds of photos and I said, wow, you really, you know, must be working every single day to shoot. He said, actually what I do is go maybe twice a month, go out with a bunch of models, a bunch of outfits and shoot like hundreds and hundreds of shots. And then I just automate it so that they get posted every day. And I thought, wow, what an interesting challenge to do as many setups, as many different outfits and looks and lighting setups in a day as you can. So I got together with Madison Fitz, actress and model friend of mine and we just spent a couple hours trying out a lot of different looks in the hope of producing a bunch of content for Instagram. So we spent about four hours in the hills in Griffith Park and in the studio doing as many, you know, quality of different lighting setups as we could which for me was a really great exercise in shooting the same model in multiple ways for different sets of photos all in a single day. So we sat it out in Griffith Park and it was the middle of the super bloom. The whole of the wisdom tree hill was covered in these beautiful flowers. It also has these interesting looking power staunchens. They were able to use for different angles and different light. We were there at about 11 o'clock so it was kind of high sun and it had Ian, the guy who was helping me shoot that day, hold a reflective fill in the shadows. So we've got a couple of shots of her standing at the power structures. A couple of shots of her lying in the flowers. A couple of shots of her sitting around in different types of flowers all with pretty much the same outfit. I was shooting on my 5D Mark III which is still an absolute killer camera. I have shot a bit on the EOS R and I like it. The reason being that you can tell immediately what your exposure is because of the electronic viewfinder. This is showing your settings on the screen. You don't have to shoot a whole bunch and then realize you're over-honored exposed. So I do like that. I also like that it's significantly smaller. So I may change over to the EOS R in the next couple of months. We'll see how it goes. Next we went back to the studio and I wanted to get some back light shots while the sun was still pretty high. This 6x6 fabric of quarter soft grid on the window let the sun come through and then had a Intellitec 2x1. Is it the Lightcloth 100 as my key? Then I changed that out for the LC-160 set which is two 4x4 lights that sit on a collapsible panel and give you this big 4x2 light source. What I love about this is it actually looks like a window in the eye of the model. So even though it's lit it gives a really naturalistic look. It gives you this window that you can move around, control the brightness, control the color temperature of because they are bi-color lights. Run off batteries if you need to. And it gives this beautiful soft wrapping light that's perfect for portraiture. Next we moved on to a Quasar top and bottom setup which is more of a kind of science fiction maybe even like mug shoddy kind of look, Guardians of the Galaxy I call it. With double back kickers. The last two setups I did were natural light, doorway light shoots. One in the doorway of my studio which gives this nice angled light. Doorway light is a really wonderful place to shoot. One because you don't need to light it. But two because of the big separation in zones. If you have someone stand in a doorway they'll be lit by the reflected light outside or the sun itself. And behind them the dark of the house or the studio or the interior will also be four or five stops darker. So it really highlights the subject. All in all we took about five or six hundred shots. Maybe 80 of them were good and I ended up editing maybe 40 of those. If I were to post these on my Instagram I could get over a month worth of content with one model. Now of course you don't really want your Instagram feed to be one model for an entire month. What people do is do this over a couple of months and then interspace the models. So you're posting new pictures of different people every single day with different lights. But it was real eye-opener for me how many if you actually set out to do lots of different photos lots of different setups lots of different outfits. You really can get a couple of good shots with each one of them very very quickly. It's almost like shooting a catalog I really enjoyed it. I really encourage people out there to do this as a creative challenge and just really see how many bits and pieces you can get because it's a great way to push yourself and explore new things. Thank you very much for watching. Thank you Madison and to Ian for helping out. I'll leave a link to their Instagrams in the description below. You can also find the lights that I used and the cameras and the lenses and I will see you next time.