Hey this is Daniel Norton, I'm here in my
studio in York City with Erica, and today
we're gonna do something... we have this
red dress and a red background, and we're
gonna play around a lot with color.
So I wanted to...
a lot of times when you want
to get a really super saturated paper
background color, what you do is - you
throw a gel on your lights.
That is light in the background,
so if I'm... if I want a red background,
and I want it exposed properly,
but I also want high saturation,
I'll put a red gel on my light... so that's
fun and whatever, but I wanted to kind of
mix it, mix it up with a little bit of
style here today, so what we're gonna do
is - I have actually in my Profoto 3 foot octa
here a red gel, so this is gonna light..
but if you notice the position of it ..
I'm not just lighting the background with
her so close so I'm gonna light Erica as
well, and we'll kind of work... I'll show
you where we're going to get with that...
so we'll start off like this again, I
have that in there, it is in ... I've got a
Profoto A1 on top of my camera...
but it is it's just being used as a remote
right now, and what I'm going to do is,
the Octagon that you see right there
with the red gel on it... is in my B group,
so I'm just gonna put it in TTL, I'm
gonna frame up a shot.. good,
and we'll see what we get, okay!
It's red thought that
might happen right...
it's a little on the darker side than I would..
I want, so I'm going to take my controller,
and I'm going to give it some juice.
I'll say two stops... see, good, okay
that's better...
good, still not there all right because
that's interesting right... it has a
certain feel to it, but if I was gonna do
that.. I could just do that in post.
I'm gonna shoot it clean, and then like put a
red thing on in post.
What I want to do now is...
I want to mix around with it a
little bit, so we see that wherever the
light is hitting her right... is red... and
we're gonna use that to our advantage by
taking our second light source, which is
in our A group.
So I returned the one off
for a second... in our A light group
we've got this guy over here,
and what I'm gonna do is
this is fitted with a five degree grid,
so I'm gonna throw a modeling light, and
I'm gonna basically just light up her
face... more or less... this is a five degree
grid, so it's pretty tight and it's hard
light cause it's small... so you can
see it's throwing shadows, the light of
her face... nicely, going to do that, and now
again I'm still in TTL, but I only have
the A group going now... so we're gonna
come in, I'm just gonna see what it looks
like after I come close to her face.
So I know you had a better exposure...
good, there we go, that's a smidge hot
so I'm gonna take that, I'm gonna dial it
down again...
I'm still in TTL so I'm just
giving it a TTL exposure check... and there
we go, okay, that looks like where I
wanted to be.
The reason... normally I would
have left it in the first position, but I
know I'm adding more light, so basically
I wanted to have it be a little bit
darker that I normally would.
So now I'm gonna turn on both lights
I switch to manual... and let's see...
we can, okay now we can see we're
getting clean light on her face...
where it falls in the shadow we're
getting red, but more importantly more
interesting if you look at like her arms
and such, they've got this cool red cast
on her.
So I'm gonna shoot this actually...
fairly full length.. if not quite full
length, full length-ish, it looks like...
yeah it's gotta create a fun look... I mean
granted because of the nature of the
light should get her to work her chin up mostly...
Good, good, good....
I'm shooting around f/8 guys, because I'm
in a day light studio and I'm
eliminating the lighting here... so check
so we've have plenty of
sharpness going down the dress...
again if you were shooting a catalogue for this
particular gown..
this is not probably the
shot you want to do, but if you're
shooting more of an editorial shot...
something with fun... you could do this and
in fact if you had to actually adjust this
a tiny bit... if you had let's say
different color dresses, you could you
know use different gels, and different
backgrounds for each one, because you're
gonna get a clean light on the face from this.
I backed it up as smidge, so I am just
going to turn it up like 1/10th...
I going to need a little more coverage to
give her a little more
space... good, good, good.
Yeah it's nice, that looks really nice,
Perfecto... I'm going to turn one more
tenth, you know, we'll dial in one
tenth at a time, that's what's nice about
these lights.. you know, control, good.
I left the modelling light on cuz I forgot,
but it's not affecting the shot guys, so
don't worry about that.
Yeah... now we have some...
Oh yeah... that's pretty cool...
I like that there's some nice fun shots right?
Try one where you're just like almost,
almost straight on, but
just turn like that... that will look cool...
like that, yeah, there we go...
beautiful, that looks fantastic, super
interesting, super different, right...
Doesn't take much uh... to create
something that's a little bit more
interesting to play around with...
again I always say this...
from talking about shooting clothing
especially, think about the clothes, think
about how you want to accent it.. make it
interesting...
So this is red... we want to
focus on the red part of it, so we did that.
Now it also has a lot of lace and
stuff, because of how we lit it we're not
showing that off, so you know that
you're making that choice.
So would, our choice was to go with the
color versus the texture, and you can get
in any case... right?
Maybe we'll do texture next time... right?
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