In this video I take the inside-outside
to make a stylized portrait shoot.
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great but sometimes
Now location shoots are
a great model and a great location.
You need some styling
and the theme is really simple.
We're going to bring the indoors outdoors
so let's get a light set, let's get a model in,
in let's get shooting
and the theme is really simple.
I've got Chloe and she's sat in a red
so let's get a light set, let's get a model in,
let's get shooting.
So to help me out
today I have a great model
I've got Chloe and she's sat in a red
chair in the middle of a field.
Already that's kind of getting stylized
but we're going to add to this
as we go through.
First thing I want to do is work out the
exposure, now I'm going to use a bit of flash
but also going to add some ambient in
here as well,
so let's start with the ambient exposure.
I want to go for a nice
shallower depth of field
so I'll go with
an F 2.8 aperture
and I've got ISO 200 the native ISO
for my camera,
I'm thinking about a 1/4000 of a second shutter speed,
let's see how this looks.
Okay Chloe I'm going to take one shot
and that looks pretty good.
I'm happy with that.
It's a little bit underexposed
which is exactly what I want
because now I can add to the exposure
with a bit of flash,
I'm using high-speed sync flash.
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Here's how it looks with the flash
So that's my basic shot
and already this is looking pretty good
but we can add to that.
So with the basic exposure sorted
I can now add in some extra props
and the first one I'm going to add in
just a bit of a rug,
so we've got a random rug
that I think will tie in nicely
with the rest of the props.
Let's see how that looks,
here we go Chloe.
So now we've added an extra element
we've added a table
with some books and some flowers
and of course a lamp,
not that it works out here
but that's not the point,
it's all part of styling remember,
so let's see how this looks.
So the last prop we're going to add in
is just a teacup and saucer
and the reason we're
going to do that
is well it gives something for Chloe
to interact with,
to work with but also it just looks good
in the whole theme
that we've set up here.
So let's see how this looks
That's the basic idea set out.
We've got a few other props we can play with
as well but what we're going to do now
is take a few shots
and when we've done that
we'll take these pictures into Photoshop
and do a little bit of editing so,
let's get the pictures first.
Chloe did a fantastic job modeling
on a really windy day
but that wasn't the only weather problem we had,
the Sun was constantly going in and out.
So I'd positioned Chloe,
so when the Sun was out,
it was on her back
and added to the picture
rather than being in her face
which would have caused problems
with squinting and exposure issues.
Well that was a great fun shoot
and we've got some fantastic pictures
at the end of it,
but in an ideal world
maybe you do things differently
so perhaps I would put a light behind Chloe
rather than relying on the Sun?
Perhaps I'd wait until the end of the day
for that low warm sunshine
but of course it's not always an ideal world,
so for this shot I'm going to use one of the ones
where the Sun was back-lighting Chloe.
I'll add my own warmth in post-processing.
Now I could do that in either Lightroom,
Adobe Camera Raw, but I'm going to use Photoshop.
Let's have a look.
So here's the shot I want to edit
and let's begin by adding
some warmth to the picture.
Now I want to do this non-destructively
as far as I can,
so I'm going to choose Layer,
New Adjustment Layer
and then across and down
to color balance. I'll click OK
and here I can choose a warmer tone
by changing the tone of the mid-tones.
So I could do shadows and highlights
but it's mid-tones I'm interested in.
I'll take the cyan red towards red
and then the yellow blue,
I'm going to take towards yellow
and that should add a nice warmth
to the shot.
Now these are not exact numbers
because it doesn't matter how many times
you do this, you're going to find
that you want to have a slightly different setting,
it's going to vary from person to person,
picture to picture but I think that looks about right.
I'll just close this down
and you'll see on my layers,
there's a little sort of scales here
and this is an adjustment layer
so if any point in the future
I want to change this?
I simply double click on the Scales
and it pops right back open exactly where it was before.
So that's my warmer tone added,
the next thing is I want
a sort of sunshine look
as if the Sun was just out of shot up here
and beaming through,
so to do that I'm going to make a new layer,
I'll go to the Layer on the menu
just down to New and across to Layer,
click OK and there is a blank
empty layer onto which I can add my sunburst.
So that calls for a paintbrush.
I'll get the brush tool
and I'm going to make sure that my foreground color
is a nice sort of warm tone,
something like this looks absolutely perfect,
a sort of yellowy, orange,
so I need a big paintbrush
and I do mean big,
so I'm going to use the square brackets,
the right one will make my brush nice and big
and I'm going to keep going
and keep going
and yeah that's getting pretty huge,
that will do, that's enormous
so I'm going to click once,
up here in the sky
and that's going to paint that orangey,
yellow color into the sky.
Now when you look at that,
I kind of know what you're thinking,
you're thinking that doesn't look like Sun
at all it just looks like a big orange blob in the sky.
Well one of the advantages
of doing things in layers
is you can then adjust how the layers
interact so in this case,
I can change the layer blending mode
which is currently set to normal, the default setting.
I'm going to click on the word Normal
drop it down and find the word Screen
and that should blend that in really nicely.
Now there are various blending modes
they all give a different look,
so maybe you want to do something
and more like Hardlight
or maybe you want to do something
more like Overlay.
They're all going to look slightly different
and of course you can
always soften the effect
by changing the Opacity so you don't
have to have it quite as strong as you see there
but I think it was pretty good close to 100%
So that looks pretty good to me,
I'm almost happy with this.
There's one last thing I want to do
and that's just tweak the contrast,
so I'm going to go back to Layer,
down to New Adjustment Layer
and I'm just going to use Levels,
click OK and really I just want to make sure
the blacks have a nice deep black
to them we can maybe just bring the highlights up
just a little tiny bit
but other than that it's just a very,
very minor change
just to tweak my contrast
and there you go!
There is my final picture completed.
Well that was great fun to do
and bringing the indoors outdoors
really made a different look to the pictures.
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I'm Gavin Hoey,
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