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foreign Studio full of expensive camera
equipment but I'm relying on two old
pieces of Black Card stuck together with
Gaff tape and held in place by a-clamps
but that's going to be perfect hello I'm
Gavin hoey and you're watching adoramatv
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photographers and in this video I'm
going to show you how to turn this into
a beautiful Rim lit portrait that uses
just one single Flash
it's so simple I'm actually going to
show you how not to do it first of all
and at the end I'll show you the post
processing so I can turn it into a split
toned Rim lit portrait all that's coming
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adoramatv I'm going to take this apart
and let's get a model in let's get a
light set let's get shooting
a bit more Gaff tape required I think
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so to help me out today I've got the
amazing Katie Katie's going to be the
model for this photo session and let's
start with perhaps the easiest and most
obvious way to make a rim lit shot but
spoiler alert this isn't going to be the
best way so around the back of Katie
I've got a black background that's going
to make life a lot easier to make the
background go black I've got a flash to
like Katie this is the flashpoint evolve
200 Pro it's going to push light in this
direction it's going to wrap around
Katie and travel over to my lens it
should give us the perfect Rim light in
theory let me show you why it doesn't
quite work that way okay Katie here we
go quick little test photo
and what we end up with is Rim light but
also I can see Katie where does that
light come from
the answer to that is well pretty much
everywhere so light has come out that
flash it's hit the wall behind the
camera it's bounced off the wall and lit
the front of Katie so the solution for
this is actually really simple just make
that flash produce less light it was on
one half power I've turned it down to
one Thirty second power let's take
another test photo here we go
and now I have much less light on Katie
no more light on the front of her but
that Rim lighting effect is really not
looking particularly effective
now you'll notice I've changed the light
from the small source of light we had
before to something a lot bigger in the
way of a soft box and although it's not
going to give me the rim light this is
going to do something that I couldn't
get with the previous light it's going
to get more wrap around lighting it's
still going to give me a nice profile
picture have a little look at this okay
Katie just take a little test photo here
we go
and that makes a nice little silhouette
picture but when you go in close you
notice it's not actually a silhouette
we've got a little bit of light on
Katie's cheeks and that is really
important
I can even make the effect more dramatic
by asking Katie to do something kind of
small but with a big difference to the
look so Katie can you step right back
against the softbox for me so by placing
Katie right up against the softbox I
don't have to change my exposure I'm
still at 130 second power but the
difference in light is it wraps so much
more around Katie than it did before I
like this this is exactly what I want to
have but without the white background
that's the next step
so what I've done is I've made my own
black background that I have stuck to
the front of the softbox and it really
is DIY this is just two pieces of Black
Card stuck together that means my
softbox is now just an edge light it's
being blocked in the center but light
from around the edges is going to pass
around and give us the rim lit look that
I'm after all I need is Katie to come
close to the background and I mean
really close he's gonna have to actually
go on to it I'm going to guess an
exposure there's no way I can really
meet her for this I'm going to guess
maybe 1 8 power for my flash
and that gives me a great rimlet look
beautiful absolutely fantastic
I can make this even more dramatic and
Edge lit by asking Katie to actually
step towards me so a few steps away from
that background and I take the same shot
again
now the rimlet look is much thinner than
it was before so we have different looks
that we can apply simply by asking Katie
to step closer or further away from the
background and as you can see the
difference in distance not a lot the
difference in effect huge
effectively that's the basic lighting
done although I've got a couple of ideas
on how we can modify it and make it look
a bit different with gels with maybe a
bit of smoke maybe some crops but for
now let's take a few photos like this so
Katie if you want to go right back
against the background and if you're
ready let's take a few photos like this
here we go
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to add a little bit of color to the
scene I'm going to put a blue gel over
my light
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and of course everything looks better
with a little bit of smoke let's add
some to the scene
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come on
I love the fact that this is just a
single flash doing this entire rimlet
look the blue gel I think looks
brilliant but perhaps more so on the
front of Katie ideally I would have
liked a different color on the back of
Katie but one flash one color that's how
it works unless you have a bit of help
from Photoshop and that's what we're
going to do so here in Photoshop I'm
going to go to layer new adjustment
layer and Hue saturation you can choose
a name the default name is absolutely
fine so we'll go with that Hue that's
the one I'm interested in as I move the
Hue Snyder around I can choose well any
color I would like but to make it really
simple I'm just going to push it either
all the way to the left or the right
same effect doesn't matter which way you
go it's the exact opposite color to
where you started so we did have a bit
of a blue color now I have a bit of a
red color
along the way you get this adjustment
layer and most importantly layer mask
which is white in color that's important
because I need to set my foreground
color which is down here to Black the
opposite I do that by clicking on the
little bendy arrow and now my foreground
color is black and if I get a paintbrush
that's what I'm going to paint on the
layer mask now I've got a big paintbrush
but most importantly a very very soft
paint brush because this will help to
blend the two colors together all I have
to do is just click and we'll paint
where I paint black effectively erases
the effect of the adjustment layer which
was to change the color of the image it
stops it doing that and you see the
original color coming back through so
now we have blue on the front of KT and
red on the back the nice thing about
this technique is if I swap the color
back to white as my foreground color I
can paint some of the original or some
of the new color in depending on how you
want to blend them together and then
there you go there is my finished
pitcher which is both a split tone and a
rim light one light photo
the lighting setup may be simple but it
is perfect for a small home studio
because it doesn't take up much space
but do expect a little bit of trial and
error around finding the right size of
black for your particular size of
softbox and it doesn't have to be a
rectangular softbox you can do this with
an octagonal one as well whatever you
use make sure that that black is right
against the surface of the softbox if
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Gavin hoey thanks for watching