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- We're shooting a commercial today created by Joel Ackerman of
Ackermania Creative. They create viral-style commercials that are highly
entertaining, but still focus on selling the product. We're shooting our talent in
a mummy-infested cave with a dirty toilet. We're going to shoot at the old L. A.zoo
in Los Angeles. It's a very cool place to shoot. A little bit pricey, but a great
location. We're going to show you how to use two reflectors, and double-bounce the
light to be able to light our talent inside a cave. Here are the obstacles. The
openings of the cave are all in the shade, and we're lighting with reflectors. There
are three openings. The two in the background have reasonable reflector
access from the outside, but the one at the mouth of the cave is in a corner and
it's very dark. Of course, that's the opening where our talent needs to be.
That's the obstacle. We've got to reflect our light around a corner, and light her
inside the cave. We'll be shooting both video and stills in the setup. Let's look
at our camera settings. We're shooting at 200 ISO, and 50th of a second shutter
speed for our video, and wide open at 2.8. I'm on the Tamron 24-70 millimeter lens,
shooting at about 40 millimeters. Here is our image with only the ambient light from
outside. We're bouncing ambient light through the cave windows with a 12 foot by
12 foot silk. It will bounce a nice, soft ambient light into the cave. I've set my
color balance to Tungsten to allow the daylight reflecting into the cave to be
very blue. It's something I do a lot, I know. We'll use a NorthStar light as a
fill light inside the cave. It's not strong enough to bounce with the ambient
light from outside, or I would use it as the key. We will bounce it into a 6 foot
by 6 foot photo flex reflector. That reflector's laying against the side of the
cave wall. Here's our image with just that fill light. We added a 39 by 72 inch
PhotoFlex LitePanel in the background to bounce light through that first opening
onto the back wall. Wiggling the light back there will give us the illusion that
the light's bouncing off from a pool of water. Here's our image with the reflector
on that back wall. For our key light we're going to use a double reflector technique
to get light around the corner, and onto our talent. We'll set a reflector out in
the sun, and use the Hard Side. That will be reflected into a second reflector,
standing in the shade, which will be aimed around the corner and onto the talent.
Here's our image with a bounce light reflected off the second reflector onto
our talent. Let's look at this lighting in a piece of video.
[female screams]
Here's some of the still imagines. Using the double bounce is really not as hard as
it looks. Any small reflector's going to work. I always start with a hard reflector
that bounces into a softer reflector. This will work with light panels or round
reflectors, or a combination thereof. Simple technique, but very effective. Keep
those cameras rolling, and keep on clicking.
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