I just been down here making a video about instant meters and things and just sort
of had this idea i just shot a quick picture of the awesome Praew's who's being
on my model for this little video and just so actually there's some really
cool little bit of light going on all around here
look at these beach huts you see all these highlights and shadows look just
here right I'm going to highlight now see how bright the side of my face is
gone
look at all this we got all these shapes and all these lines as soon as I step
over here I mean different light that is all real powerful stuff for a photographer
so I thought let's just take three quick shots of Praew's once we got somebody here
because I'm usually working on my own
let's take a few pictures let's just have a look how could we use these
different types of light interesting isn't it
here's a brilliant little place Praew's supermodel Praew's which you find gritty
yes in there we didn't rehearse that or anything viewers she had no idea i'm
gonna turn this down there anything right
obviously we rehearsed it but that this is a really cool little place why is it
an interesting place
look we got this these nice little shapes this beach hutty shapes going off back over
in this direction here now they're going to make a sort of contrast to Praew's
face but what about these light i was talking about we got strong light here
and that's coming down to this like to grab when it's bouncing up here i'm
going to shoot from that corner
Praew'scan you just turn your face that way please that's it and go back it like we
rehearsed remember
yeah there we go so what's happening here i need to make sure my light my
in block it look that way that make is the light is coming here is bouncing off here we're
getting a very soft highlight on this side of Praew's face compared to this
side over here
ok that's what i want to use so what's the shot gonna be I'm gonna use my 18-55
200 millimeters sorry 18-55 200 iso here we go let's have a little look so we can
do cause the light under herereally quite nice
I want to pre expose for Praew's face not for the background I don't care if it
blows away a little bit
that's cool so Praew's lean your head back against there we go
your chin down a bit there bit more your eyes off of me
and here we have it I kind of like there we go do one more put your chin down more and
eyes up at me if you got big eyes and it's like utilizing the major grin try
not to grin
here we go on me miserable instead there we go
but you see this light is really quite nice it's very subtle very soft very
sort of normal portrayed like turn your head towards me a little more that's it
a real kind of angled look that is cool
let's just take it from this angle here just that's better
notice I'm almost cropping the top of Praew's hair
I just think it's look kind of nice i'm not too worried that i'm cropping a bit
there we go see this one little soft light scenario let's go find another
let's see if we can find some highlights and more highlights to use in our
composition come and see what we got I think it's out this side this is a
brilliant little spot out here this is kind of like where we first started
chatting because what's interesting is we've got shade here we've got Praew's can
stand in the shadow and it's still really nice light but it's also a little
bit of overspill of light coming through with these highlights are look there's
all these highlights going on all the way down through here in between these
beach huts we gotta be careful with the exposure because we want to expose for
Praew's not for the highlight areas that going on over there but i still think
it's some really nice little bit of light going on let me see if I can bring
this one out in the video for you in my little fuji here let's see what we got
let's see if I can get that video rolling rock and roll here we go
so look you can kind of see Praew's and you can see the blue lights but that
she's kind of quite dark as the cameras getting used to it is darkening more now
if we go darker sorry darker we're getting more detail in the sky but we're
obviously losing Praew
so we need this to be a little bit hi key don't mind if those highlights blow away
a little tiny bit because you know it's gonna look really cool and look at the
light on Praew's face I might lose my focus now as i zoom in but you see
that's really really lovely light going on there
it's a nice soft one so let's have a go let's just shoot this notice i have to
play with my exposure you have to do this you've got to work with your
exposure going to do whatever it takes to make it work so let's have a look
Praew's ca you just you kind of did a really cool moody just kind of looking at the
ground thing a little minute ago you know you giggling and dear right let's
see what we can do
that's really cool and just kind of looking straight down i'm going to let
this blow out quite a lot in the background because i want the picture to
be of Praew's turn your chin to a tiniest bit that's it
yeah that's it just keeps staring down your doing that stare down at the ground
thing that's really cool i'll call you blinking one more like that and just
keep your head where it is but turn your eyes straight to me that there's really
shifty get really angry but that's cool just ten just turned your face to me again
just there we go
you get the idea guys the light here is absolutely beautiful but i think one of
the best bits is actually in here we've got some stunning little pools a bright
light going on in there gonna have to move the camera to show you what it is
so bear with me while I wobble around here we go right sort of us we don't
have a camera operator today so I'm gonna probably wobbling cameras around
this little place in here is absolutely brilliant but there is a slight problem
in the just before we started filming I was fooling around these pools of life
with brown we got some really really beautiful shots and we can't replicate
them because in the time it's taken to reset the camera to make sure I could do
it
The Sun has moved a tiny bit in the sky this is how important light is i'm going
to show you what i mean but first let's just have a go because there's still some cool
shots
let me just see what we can come up with here now it's again it's about playing
with exposure
let's get that video camera rolling and see if i can show you right here we go
video rolling now browse got great big eyes and its really nice instead of
focusing on them but look you see how like Praew's exposed in the background
isn't we're using these highlights if we make this darker you see what happens
we're starting to see detail in the background but it's a really boring
picture probably going to silhouette so it's about managing these things it's
also about let's just move around a bit and see where these little bits of light
look the nicest where do we need to be
see now that's quite a nice little composition and now it's out of focus is
because I can't focus the video while I'm moving but that's quite nice isn't
it
let's just take a picture and then i'm going to show you the difference during
the one which i'm about to take and when I took when we were testing it between
moving the camera because he's completely different it's a lesson in
light
ok here we go Praew's do your stuff
there we go just kind of that's really nice just looking into the cameras will
take that exposure down a bit so we've got you in there this is a really tight
shot this is allowing all those highlights around proud to just burn out
now I know this many will say that older burn highlight that's bad technique is
it if it looks nice
is it great I don't mind burnout highlights and some look natural but
that's really cool what I'm trying to do is work with this little bit of texture
here we've got some timber here in a bit of texture so here we go just get higher
arm thing that exposure down and any bit down a bit more here we go
nice that's really nice Praew's just kind of staring straight up into the lens that's
that's cool
we've got some nice little highlights on the back of Browns face but if we just
have a quick look at what are just taken and the light here and then if we
compare it to the shot i took earlier has that what a difference a you
wouldn't think it that was caused because the Sun was up here it hasn't
quite gone so far over the little pools of light you see what fun they are light
is the photographer's friend
don't be afraid to try things try stuff out dual sorts of stuff there we go
thanks mate you want to go out with you mate don't you
yes right cheers guys take care
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