Hi this is Vanessa Joy here with Breathe
Your Passion on AdoramaTV and today I'm
going to show you how to create golden
hour when it's cloudy and crappy out.
We're here with Stazia, she's actually
also a photographer and I'm gonna take
her head shot. When it's cloudy out
clients, at least mine, still expect that
light airy warm golden hour feel but as
you know we don't always have that
luxury. So what we're going to do is use
off-camera flash in order to simulate
the Sun. So there are two ways that you
can go about doing this, the first I'm
going to show you involves two lights
but you can do this with just one so
first off to the left, we have
the Profoto B1, it has a half CTO gel on
it. Which just means I'm turning it orange.
Why? Because the Sun is orange.
So I'm gelling that they're so it mimics
the Sun and I'm also putting it in a
position, low and behind my subject just
like if I did have that nice golden hour
glow that's where I would position the
Sun as well. So really all we're doing
with that Profoto light there is
mimicking the Sun. Now I could start here
and just photograph her but I'm going to
want to fill her face as well and make
sure the light is flattering there. There is
two ways I can do this but first we're
going to start off with using a softbox.
So I have a second Profoto B1 light here
and it has a softbox on it has the 3x2
softbox, nice and close to her so we
get a really soft light. The way that I
get the exposure first is I use my live
view and I want to just get the exposure
as if I was going to photograph her
without all these lights. So I'm going to
take a picture of what that looks like,
I'm just going to pop my my transmitter
off here so you can see exactly what I'm
doing without the lights. So big cheese.
Perfect so you'll see there on the
screen what it looks like without any off
camera flash and now I'm going to do is
turn on my TTL. So one of the nice things
about the Profoto lights that I love is the
TTL function which is just letting me
use auto, really to get the
roundabout power that I want coming out
of my lights. So I'm not doing anything else
but putting on my transmitter and firing
again. So looking here, one more test.
Perfect. So now you can see on the screen
I just have light coming in. What I
usually do at this point is I change
from TTL to manual so that now I can
control and tweak my lights how I want
them to be.
I could walk over to my lights to do
that or I can just do that on my
transmitter here. So looking at that
picture I know that I want the backlight
my sun to be a little bit brighter. So
that one's labeled be so I'm just going
to come over here and I'm gonna bump up
the energy. Let's just try it at plus 3
and see what happens there and I think
the light on her is good. I’m going to
move the light a little bit closer to
her though.
her the more soft it's gonna be. So nice
and close their, little intimidating. I do
not do this with my Brides by the way,
next. So let's take this picture one more
time see how we're going. There we go
gorgeous.
Oh and by the way, I've also set my white
balance to 56 Kelvin, 5600 Kelvin and
that's because I want the light on her
light, which is at 5600 Kelvin. So I'm
actually gonna go to 57 so it's ever so
good. So you can see now behind her e’ve got a
little bit more light. You know I'm gonna
have to take a baby step to the left,
yes. Always mess up the right and left
more seen if I can get a little bit more Sun
flare in there, yeah perfect.
That's what I'm looking for a little bit
more so I'm actually going to bump up my
looks more like that light flair that I
closer.
think this will be perfect.
That's it, so that's that nice warm
little sunshine glow right behind her, so
I'm gonna pose you just a little bit, so
what you're gonna do is you can put your
feet together, you can put your thumbs in
your front pocket.
Perfect, you're gonna pretend I'm a
mirror. So you just do what I do. You're
going to bend your left leg,
yep other way, other mirror. Perfect I'm
light it's more flattering that way. You're going
uneven with them. Perfect, you can turn your
that way, really pretty and then just
turn your eyes up towards me. Love it
one too. So perfect. Right here I actually
have my Adorama Flashpoint 5in1 reflector.
I love it
that B1 in the back is the Sun and
if that'd B1 in the back is a sun
some light into it. So we're gonna give
that a try alright. So Rob is going to
is the Adorama 5in1
Flashpoint reflector. My favourite I buy
it multiple times over.
What we're just attempting to do
is pretend that is the sun in the back
Stazia's face. So you're going to basically
to fall and come to her face. Perfect.
So just looking at me.
Awesome kind of like turn down that way.
until this point I've kind of been shooting just
typical headshots but lets do some more
creative ones in there. So love that.
Perfect.
Then take this hand and just kind of
put it like up to your hair here.
There you go. Perfect. You can turn a little
bit towards the reflector. That's really
pretty, good just kind of smiling down
there and then eye up at me. Perfect so we're
really just working with the light and
pretending like it is the Sun and using a
would if it were the Sun. So I hope that
gives you a few tips on how to create
golden hour
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