Hey, this is Daniel Norton.
I'm here in my studio in New York City
with Erika and Marisa.
So today I want to try something
really fun and like high key that has a really
bright background, but turns out I only
had my 2 x B1X's with me charged up
and ready to go, and to get a nice even
white background, you really need to use
two lights, generally, right?
We want to get a good spread across it,
so what I've done instead is, I have one
B1X back there.
It's bouncing off the white wall
and the studio's spreading out, and then
I put a Scrim Jim between the light and
my subjects, that means this is becoming
their background, and also basically like
a free hair light, like it's gonna rip across and
really kind of give them a light from
the back.
to light the front of them
because I want a big nice even source,
but I want a little bit of punch.
I've got this Westcott seven-foot umbrella it
is silver on the inside, so it's
specular but it's 7 feet, so it's soft right?
So we get that good mix, and
because it's so far away, and because
all of the light wrapping around it, any kind
of fill, basically light's just bouncing
around the studio as it feels so nice
and simple. Got my camera here, I'll show
you what we got. So I'll do one light at
a time, just kind of show you guys what's
going on here. Let's see, so I'm going to
just fire the background light, so not going to have
to waste any good expressions yet...
Alright so.. we're gonna just try the
background, and we could see that even
with just that light firing there's
actually light wrapping around, and they
did need to save a good expression,
because see that's pretty bad. Yeah, it's
very terrible, so, but really I mean even
this alone is not terrible, right?
Some reflectors out here, and that could
actually work for you, but I like to
clean it up. So I'm gonna add my key-light,
which is my umbrella.
I'm gonna turn off the background light
for a second, just to show what this one
looks like by itself. Come through a
little bit, there we go. Alright, good, and
we can see there that we have a drab, a
plain background, because the
background light's not firing.
Right so, and so you don't even look
happy... they're just like...
oh what's this?
So then, all right here we go now we've got all
the lights. They're gonna miraculously
look good like professional models maybe.
Not yeah, now we have nice and bright now
this here. I'm keeping really close to
the edge, I've probably really this is
the shot that you had to do for examine...
Okay, let's look at Marissa's face, nice
zoom in there. Look at how perfect Erica
face is. So I'm just gonna say I don't
want to choose one or the other here.. but
we're gonna look at this, and you can see
basically that we've got. We're way over
the side here, we got lots of lots of
white going on, but I just want to be
particular. You can see the highlights
coming here. You can see how it's
wrapping around very nicely, the light on
them, on the shoulders and stuff. You just
want to be super careful, because you can
see where the hair is breaking up here,
we're gonna start to get some breakup,
but that's totally acceptable for me for
this. So let's shoot a few. So we want to
be like friends, not like that show.
Although that was a pretty good show, but
yeah they're kind of friendly, they're
working it good. Yeah you know having fun,
loose you know, remember when you're
shooting multiple people, who you're
gonna want to shoot a lot, because each
person's doing their own thing, you know,
so you want to kind of play it, because
we got two personalities here, right?
This isn't like a fixed shot but let's do
some fixed ones. So go ahead and do
something with maybe with your arms
folded... lower, yeah, yeah, like here we go
classic, girl team, they're friendly, they
don't actually hate each other.
There's no rivalries here on AdoramaTV,
and again..
I'm keeping it really close to the edge,
just shooting a variety, having fun kind
of like.. yeah.
Exactly yeah.. just like that
bring your shoulder, bring your right
shoulder towards me. Nope your right
shoulder, there you go,
there you go. Your other right, good...
that's pretty, so right at me, good, we're
happy, we're good.
If you're happy in you know
good good good...
Bring your arms up and
Marissa... I'm chopping you off.
Good there we go, yeah, yeah.
Not there, but somewhere you know
above your waist level.
There we go, there we go..
fun, fun, fun, fun, fun, and we're gonna hit
the lights set here.
They're beeping when they're ready.
So I can kind of work with it, we're just
gonna shoot a bunch of fun ones, good
we actually got to where they were
actually doing the same thing. It's
amazing, we can't imagine that they did
that.
Ok... too.. kind of just like pretty,
looking at the camera.
There we go one more last one really nice, good, good.
What's nice about this light is that
it's very flattering, everywhere, right so
even if they're being goofballs, it's
nice, and even if there's no weird shadows
going on, which you get with hard light
right? So this soft light is giving us
that really overall kind of flattering lighting.
What can I say? It really gives
us a lot of options, and they can move
around. This is great, if you want your
subjects to move, this is really good for
kids. Not so much for animals because you
can't get them up in the air like that,
unless you wanna hold them. But for kids
it's great, because they can really be
goofballs, and they can look you know
wherever they want, and the light is nice
and even. No matter where they're looking,
so nice and clean. Nice and simple so
keep in mind, if you only have two lights,
this is a great way to get a background.
You know that's really easy, you can
basically put the light behind a silk.
The silk becomes your background, you're
good to go if you want to light
background, and if you only had one light
like I showed you at the beginning.
You could with some reflectors.. to still make
that work. Oh they're probably gonna get
a little bit of more below it from the
back. So for control you really want to
so, let me know how you guys use umbrellas.
Do you like giant umbrellas?
I feel like these are really popular, but I'm not
sure. I think this first time I've used
one in the video, so they're really
popular, let me know if you guys are
using these giant umbrellas.
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models and these two as well...
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