I'm sure most of you already know the lovely Natasha, we know you're lovely don't we
because you just attracted kisses from a tramp poor girl.
Tasha isn't exactly being seen in
in her best light right now, look we've got strong sunshine going on this is the
classical don't do situation for a portrait because the suns coming in over Jayne's
right shoulder, look we've got a strong shadow going on here, there's a strong
black shadow
round Tasha's nose and round her eyes and when her hair comes forward
this side of her face is really really bright and this side is really dark.
But what if I was to say I could magic that away?
If I was to go cazam,
you see how much softer that is?
Look, so what am I doing? piece of white card,
It's a reflector, well actually it isn't a reflector, it is a piece of white card.
A reflector is probably the most basic
easiest light modifying equipment that you could ever use.
All I'm doing with this is just, and I think even from there you can see the
difference on Tasha's face, just by moving the white card around.
you could use anything there are
purpose-built reflectors such as this last-elite which i'm gonna
show you in a minute. You could even use a white envelope, anything will do as a reflector
and where ever you move it to so you can get the light. The closer this is
to Tasha I think you'll see the stronger the
effect of the reflector. so in here we got a pretty strong effect but as I move back
it becomes more subtle, I saw that sneaky look Natasha.
It becomes more subtle as you move back and forth.
wherever you put it, I'm using it now to soften these shadows but look
see i could put it under here, look. Just to try and look at this area
of Natasha's chin. So you could bring the light in from underneath.
You can see how it modify's, now you wouldn't normally use a reflector in such an
unsubtle way
as we are here but I just want to show you what it does, but you don't just use a
reflector
to reflect light in you could use one to remove it.
if I come over here, all these shadows here are
not particularly nice on Tasha's face, so let's remove
all the shadows but instead of adding light, we're gonna take some light
away.
All I'm gonna do is put Tasha's face
in shade. Now there are no shadows but she's gone very dark, compared to the
background,
but if you increase your exposure a bit and expose for Tasha
rather than the park Tasha will look really really nice, a beautiful flat even
light.
Okay the rest of the picture has gone bright but it's still a look it's quite a kinda
interesting look and it really really separates her from her environment.
There we go, lot's and lot's of things
that you can do with a reflector. So let's have a loot at the purpose built last-elite.
You're being very good at keeping still. Thanks Nat.
Right, so these things, they come in all sorts of colours, shapes and
sizes, you can buy enormous great big things like this which you have to
wrestle with to put away,
you can buy little tiny ones like that which you can hold in your hand,
would you? Thank you.
Right, look at that, cool isn't it.
As you can see this one, we've got a silver side
and if i reflect some light into the camera lens you can see just how powerful that reflects.
I've also got a gold side on this one, some of them you might have
a white reflector one one of them and silver because
the white wont be as harsh wont be as strong as the silver light.
if I just kind of scoop a bit of light onto Tasha with the silver thing
you can see that is actually it's very very very powerful indeed as I just
scoop some light up.
Now something which is you need to
think about is colour physics, the sun. The light is coming from over there
coming this way so you need to scoop it up from this side to push it back into
those shadows.
This isn't obviously going to work if you're on this side
because bit of a no brainer really isn't it. With the silver side we're putting in tonnes
of light that's way too much I could move back quite a long way with this and
still look at that, even from back over here hopefully
not falling back into the river which you would love wouldn't you.
I can still still scoop up light,
look at Tasha's face, by just pushing some light
it makes an enormous difference.
That's it, get in close.
Big difference, now the sun
is going to be going in and out a bit, there's a couple little bits of clouds coming along
so I quickly wanna show you what the gold sides for. This will add colour
to your picture, this is gonna scoop up some gold light
and fill in the shadows with gold. So Tasha now looks like she's been in the
tanning
salon, so we're not only getting rid of the shadows we're
sort of putting a colour onto Nat.
Just flip it over to silver again so quickly, that's a neutral colour
and the gold colour.