I am Joe McNally now it for at AdoramaTV
I'm in a beautiful square in downtown Guanajuato Mexico
there's a coffee bar we're gonna like the bar from the outside
and back lighted and they're gonna light are subject to the soft of
inside the bar Adorama TV presents photo on the go
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the reason I got at Adorama it's a real store with real people or not death
friends and associates there who have guided me through
all my camera purchases for years hi this is coming out for an hour and a TV
and we're in a beautiful square in downtown Guanajuato Mexico
ever going to do it to light setup and we're gonna backlight
a coffee bar behind me with a light that's out in the street
and then we're going to light our subject in the inside at the bar
with a softbox okay outside
the coffee bar we have been Elinchrom Ranger with one head
we have a half cut CT 0 little bit of a warming gel
and we're gonna fly the light through the doors
at the bar back there because it's getting late afternoon the sun is
disappearing the light is kinda CB
and I wanna spark a little bit of kinda highlights and stuff like that and
one thing I found through lighting on location for years now
is that if you put your light far away from your subject
okay which is kinda contrary to what oftentimes we talk about which
me you know oftentimes were saying push the lighting close get the light source
big make it wrapping and diffuse
in this instance I'm pushing it away because I wanted to come to be a
like the SUN I wanted to be a hard spectral source
from a great distance from a subject tent running at nearly maximum power its
1100 watt second unit
we're probably about eight or nine hundred what seconds right now an hour
inside the coffee bar
and you see behind me he
interior light or my subject like that light out on the street is just for
kinda
splashing kinda backlight its gonna highlight the bar but it doesn't really
light
my subject the subject like is a
39-inch direct deep Octa softbox
its a Elinchrom light shaper it's got a really deep construction
it gives you really nice mood light so this is going to be my life for my
subject
now contrast thing to the light on the street
which is running at nearly full power this light
he's in Beatport in the on crime system if you put your lighting to be poor you
get thirty percent of the power
be entire pack okay or whatever
power level is dialed in you get thirty percent of it so we have to deport
and it's pretty minimal power because obviously that light is traveling great
distance
this light will be right next to my subject am in the interior the bar which
is pretty dark
obviously we've got a light on our subject giving her a nice of light
I the outside light is being taken care
where you know some backlight in you know that we've created with the light
out on the street
we have to close pretty soon because the the hardback lied
looks like sunlight but when I'm seeing outside does not look like sunlight
you know it's kinda looks like a little soupy and it's getting demand dusky
so we're almost at the corners here in turn to play in this game
but it's been a fun thing to to work on
she's late really beautifully and I'm getting some other reproductive
bar stools shapes you know with backlight and it's a two hr
driven win again with the papa was a radio
reaching out into the street and right here in the bar very typical
applications to be that you see location earlier in the day and
obviously it's different when you come back to it but we're doing our best year
we've got the dow the bar backlit pattern looks beautiful
the light inside is working really well and the backlights working really well
so it got some things here that are worthwhile upgrade
continue to you know persevere gorgeous
that's nice pretty so we're wrapping up
and in summation to like picture
one big light out in the street one big light in the sidebar
the light inside the bars running really low power
through beautiful soft box the light out on the street is just blasting like ross
online
and that produces kinda backlit quality
and then the foreground is lit in simple fashion just with a smooth wonderful
softbox been a wonderful model
and
and I'm shooting from the in tiered towards the exterior the bar
and just trying to play with light and ratios so
Joe McNally for at Adorama TV from Guanajuato Mexico
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