this week we're shooting lemonade in the park
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and but anyway here in Phoenix Arizona you know it's February it's really nice
and sunny and so I was thinking about some delicious eliminate
and I thought you know i i love to set up this really cool stock photo into in
the studio but guess what
that every has a studio and I thought well let's just shoot this outside me we
can use this for like a church newsletter or a community event
something that says hey here comes our picnic we can shoot it now in to
publicize all the stuff so I did was
we just found this part here that's got a really cool scene and we got just said
well Walmart kind of a I'm tablecloth there in through that down over this
little
I piece of stone to try to make it look like annual picnic table
filled up that picture there was some lemonade slice up some lemons
because everything said and when I'm using for the background is this
these plants here that are nice in green and have some color and the problem with
this
is because those are green it's absorbing a lot of light so even though
the pitcher
and the background have the same amount of light that is showing up about a stop
less than the pitcher and so I took some pictures the background was just her
dark and nasty we wanted to have some color so what I'm doing here is I'm
using this is a California Sun Bounce
and this is a many what it allows me to do is to
throw some shade over the pitcher and
we still need to my specular highlights we see some nice things in this
pitcher's night reflections
but it puts a bow to stop less light and so now the background and the pitcher
gonna have the same amount light
and so that would really help us out sometimes you might throw some light
on this with the flash player in this case something absent taking light away
and using the small reflector allows me to still have some nice specular
highlights
I want two things I wanna play around with now is I'm I wanna have it be a
little bit more specular someone it through a little bit like
into that picture some Mexican use this Allgeier here is a Micro Mini
in El asking about some gold at light into that and then I can look and see
which have those
shots look best how to do this I can do this by myself I need some help sell
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some shade on to the pitcher here
and one thing I forgot to mention is ensuring the really long lens this is a
seventy two hundred millimeter lens
and the reason for that is I want that background to appear closer
to the pitcher and Simon ese a long lens that gives us compression
and also it narrows the end the love you so don't see all the park so
I was using a a wide angle lens would see too much detail so this is going to
really help asap so
mass gonna throw this appears gonna shade that I make
down your way low here I'm shooting in manual mode
and metering up the table here and I'm shooting in about
2010 the second f2.8 I wanna really shallow depth-of-field
so that I can really let that background fallout
awesome I really like that now one of the things I want to do here though
is I don't I'm not sure the suspect in a nutshell I'm gonna
add a little bit of a reflection using this this is the Micro Mini
gonna give us some warming towns on a good catch the light and put that on
there
the actual area gonna put that on there
lemon up there trying to get just a little bit more punch and in this
ana's okay here we go I like that all right we got some fun pictures over
eliminating those are gonna be perfect for just like a community newsletter
something like that now
if you're shooting for stock photography though this is not going to be good
enough one of the things that we noticed years this overhang has all kinds in
like little
holes in stuff and so is giving us a really weird and reflection a specular
highlights on the pitcher in those would need to be fixed so for shooting this
for professional photo shoot we need to do some more things to really control
the specular highlights but in this photo shoot just wanna have some fun
and get some really cool eliminate shots to send out to neighbors in those
texting so this is going to work great
and the other thing we could have done she could have if we had
maybe every month flasher speed like could have thrown some white
onto those flower art to those plans back to brighten up
but I like softening the light here and dropping like here instead a break-in at
so much simpler you at ABM engineering batteries and all that kinda stuff
that's a lot less expensive and so that worked
just fine well for more information about shooting all kinds of different
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