Comments on: Photography Made Easy: Inverse Square Law

By: Josh Barry

Josh Barry — Thu, 27 Dec 2012 20:56:00 +0000

As a twelve year pro I can say this was a very good video especially the past about handling group photos. That was very helpful.

By: Johan Schmidt

Johan Schmidt — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 14:14:00 +0000

Brilliant explanation – thanks!!

By: Endy Studios

Endy Studios — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 19:40:00 +0000

This is great! Thanks for sharing!

Love going over this stuff!

-N.

By: James McCormack

James McCormack — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 15:14:00 +0000

I had to write an essay on this law as part of my photography degree. I did not not find it too hard to get to grips with after I read up on it from various sources.

By: Doug Dalby

Doug Dalby — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 06:22:00 +0000

He bridged hatred to “dude” status, with a single video?

It really was a good explanation, eh? I will use it.

Doug

By: Doug Dalby

Doug Dalby — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 06:09:00 +0000

Holy crap, you look like a stylized devil. Forget the retouches and under-lighting… Save this pic for Halloween, k?

By: Doug Dalby

Doug Dalby — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 06:00:00 +0000

This was a great explanation (credit where credit is due: Inverse Square Law would have put us to sleep *if* it had not been demonstrated so well that we could compare results).

Distilling complexity into understandability (is that a word?) is an art. Good job, Adorama.

(p.s. fix your audio echo in the garage. Adorama owes you a studio w/ acoustic foam by now. :)

Your company name has shown up on my bank account statements quite a bit recently and… I always appreciate the value.

Keep it up… These tutorials are great and if given a little polish (additional funding), they could be spectacular. Don’t change anything other than the set or audio. The teacher and topic are on-target.

Gracias.and kudos to F-Stoppers for re-posting.

By: charles embrey

charles embrey — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 03:34:00 +0000

If you make the marks on the floor at 1′, 1.4′, 2′, 2.8′, 4′, 5.6′, 8′, 11′, 16′ and 22′ you can take meter readings at each mark and you will find that there will be a one stop difference between each mark and two stops between every-other mark. Knowing this makes it easier to light group portraits, i.e. one stop drop off between 11′ and 16′.

By: Sam Dickinson

Sam Dickinson — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 02:43:00 +0000

Awesome info with this. I had read about it before but it didn’t really stick. Looking forward to playing around with this on my next shoot.

By: Joop van Roy

Joop van Roy — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 23:01:00 +0000

Good explanation. It might also be helpful to show a simple graph where y= amount of light and x=distance from lightsource. like this: http://www.eoearth.org/files/115601_115700/115635/250px-Inverse_square_graph.jpg