There you go, what did he say?
Is it is it shareable?
He said I'm hungry..
I would mirror that sentiment.
In this video I want to show you how to really
bring out those hair lights, and the
importance of framing your subjects,
let's dive in.
My name is Pye and I'm one
of the founders of Lynn and Joseph
photography, and SLRlounge.com.
We're teaming up with Adorama to bring you a
new series of photography tutorials called
Master Your Craft,
right here on Adorama TV,
So let's dive in.
What's up guys my name is Pye,
helping me out today, I have Maury and
Courtney in our background right here,
we're gonna link them up,
so you guys can follow them as well,
and right now what we're gonna do
is just briefly talk about kind of
subject positioning in reference to hair lights.
We're shooting midday, unfortunately in
the wintertime, midday in California, we
still have a good directional light, so
it's like noon right now, but at least we
have some direction to the Sun,
and oftentimes when we're trying to utilize
a backlight, we don't frame the subject
over a background, or we can really see it.
I'm gonna show you what I mean,
and I'm not saying that you guys would do
this, but oftentimes I'll see images
where we kind of take a shot of our
subjects, I'm just gonna do this for
example where they're sort of framed
against a darker background,
I'm sorry against a lighter background, so when
they're framed against a lighter
background with a bright exposure, the
hair light that's on them it just
completely disappears.
So to emphasize our hair lights, what I
really want to do is get them into a place
where my camera angle shoots them
against a darker background,
and we have that right here
in these hedges.
So I'm gonna show you
the difference between those two, with
just making some simple adjustments.
First I'm gonna have Maury, you're gonna
do that stack post so just scoot
Courtney in just a little bit more
towards the hedge, and then I want you to
stack right behind, and then hold your
hand right there, perfect, and then
Courtney I'm gonna have you look down
towards this side while Maury's kind of
looking towards you.
There it is, so now that we have them kind
of set up, I'm gonna go ahead and just get my
exposure real quick, and we're gonna
shoot this at f/14, 1/2,000th and ISO100 just
so I have a little bit of depth in my
shot, so I do want to see a little bit of
separation between the back,
and what I'm gonna do now is, shoot them
right against that hedge, this isn't
gonna be the final image, but it is to
show you just how big of a difference,
so look at the hair light, you can even see
in the back of my camera, look at this,
now we can't see the hair light over
this versus this second shot, it's just
so emphasized, so that's really the main
gist of this.
I'm gonna go ahead and shoot another
couple images, but just make sure that
when you are placing your subjects,
and getting your camera angle,
if you really want that hair light to pop,
place them against a darker background.
Now check it out, and get a couple of other
shots here, alright guys, so I love where
you're kind of looking towards each
other, just like that, down towards his
side, beautiful, just like that, and we're
gonna kind of fill out the frame with
this entire hedge, I'm gonna see if I can
step in....
from this angle, as long as I keep them
kind of against the city, we can still
see the hair light, beautiful guys, from
right there Maury, whisper something soft
and sweet into her ear,
you know sometimes my guys just say like
really weird creepy things with that, so
I appreciate that Maury, that's super cute
I love that I'm gonna work to this angle
and get a little close up, now Courtney
bring the chin down, and eyes right at me.
Chin down more, there.
Now Maury stay on her,
right there, now smile,
look back towards him,
and laugh, kind of down toward his shoulder,
there you go, what did he say,
is it is it shareable...
What he said I'm hungry...
I would mirror that sentiment, perfect
guys, that's fantastic.
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