Hey this is Daniel Norton,
I'm here in my studio in New York City
with Farah,
and we're making some portraits.
So as you know I'm in a daylight studio but
we're one of these days where it's
bright and sunny... but it's also got
passing clouds, so we started shooting at
first and the light was kind of coming up and
down, and while you can put your camera
in aperture priority which we'll do in a
second, so you can just keep shooting,
basically we're getting some very slow
shutter speeds, and then some very fast
ones, and you know... which is kind of a pain.
So I decided to use some lighting
as always.
Now what I was doing...
is I have these V-flats here,
these are from V flat world.
Seth got these in the studio and
I'm getting to use them first haha.
So I unpacked them, and they're basically
like portable V-flat's.
So you've seen me using V flats a bunch of
times before.
I had this one, it's all white on this side
and is black on the other, but I took the second
one I have, and put it on the bottom, you
actually see I have a fold down here,
because what was happening was, lights
coming to the studio through the
windows of the studio.
It's bouncing off the bottom
of the V Flat, it was giving a little
bit of kind of that underneath light,
which I didn't really care for, because
of the angle of it.
So by putting black down here,
I'm actually kind of creating
kind of a negative fill, but more like
just blocking the fill it's not really
negative fill so anyways but what I am
gonna do for consistency's sake, is I am
gonna use a flash as always.
Now you've seen me bounce a flash on a
V flat before..
and usually I put it like right here, but
if I put the flash right here, it's only
gonna cover a small section of the V flat.. right?
It's not going to give the
full wide that we want, so what I'm doing
is I actually have it out here.
This is a Profoto B1X, I got it pointed at the
background and not sure if you can see
as it is so bright in here, but turn the
modeling light on and
one thing we can definitely see, is that
it's hitting her too though, which we
don't want, because then we're gonna have
bright light hitting her before it gets
to the V flat. So I'm gonna use a flag
which I have conveniently right here, and
I'm basically just gonna flag it off.
So what I want to do is hit the maximum
amount of background, and without hitting
Farah, so we do that, now we're good,
and of course again we want consistency
so I've added a second flash over here.
That's just lighting the wall up keeping it
white for the shots.
So simple is that right, and then what
we're gonna do is a
couple of things.
So I'm gonna start off kind of show you how.
Here I'm gonna have the flash off, and
I'm gonna just put my camera in aperture
priority. Someone switch to aperture priority.
Now a lot of times you guys
will see me, I will set the camera at
like eight or have sixteen or something
to get rid of all the daylight but
because I want to use some of the
daylight, I'm gonna shoot around f/4.
That's gonna give me a nice nice depth
of field. So we can see her whole body,
but not so you know, not so close.
Now so it's a quick shot, and that's what
we get and it looks pretty nice, right.
We're at at... four and we're 400 ISO
though and actually we are just at Auto so
I don't know the shutter speed was, I have to
look back at it.
Let's say it's a 80th, which isn't super slow,
but again if this is right now, that Suns out.
As the Sun starts to drop, it will change.
So let's just.. you know feel like this, so you can
see the natural light shots which are
really nice, yeah, good catch-light in
your eye, nice and pretty, you know she's
not moving around too much, so we should
be good and that's fine right that makes
a decent shot, but, we're gonna add the
flash now.
The trick here, they gave the flashes.
We want the flash shot to look
exactly like the non flash shot, if that
makes any sense, because what we want is
the flash, and I'm actually gonna raise
my shutter speed here for a second.
I'm going to go to manual and I'm gonna
raise my shutter to 250, the reason why
I'm doing that is, because I want to get
the flash, the flash exposure to look
the same as the non flash.
So the only way I can do that is by
eliminating the natural light as much as
possible. Okay?
It definitely looks different but
exposure wise it looks a little bit less
warm actually..
well we can see exposure
wise it's roughly the same.
Now, I'm gonna go back, I'm gonna lock
this in manual and I'm gonna go back to
aperture priority, so what's gonna happen
is, my shutter is gonna keep going up and down
to compensate for the daylight, but the
flash will freeze any action, and also
give me consistency.
So the combined look
should be, and once we do this we're
gonna look, cause we're gonna when
you're combining lights, you just want to make
sure, exposure wise looks pretty good.
Let's take a second for that image to
come in.
Let's see, okay, exposure wise we look
pretty good.
I think we're smidge on the bright side,
but if you've watched any video we ever
do I always like to be able to be on the
bright side.
So as long as we're not
blown out, let me just grab my exposure
slider, yeah, like that's probably about
where we want to be.
So I'm gonna actually give myself a little
exposure compensation.
So I'm doing myself a regular exposure
compensation down half a
stop, there we go, and we can see that again.
If you look at the video and
the light's coming up and down, and we
can do playful stuff you get some good
poses here, good, good, nice, like that, do
move the arm across.
Yeah, yeah, pretty, you know, getting some
nice shots here.
Good, yes, just like that.
Good you can see the sun's going down,
and we should be, I see how even though
the sun's going down, right, the shots
staying the same.
Now we are getting a slower shutter, so if we
start to.. she's moving around too much.
I have to be a little wary, because even
with the you know, with the flash, we're
gonna get pop and blur if we...
So that's cute if you just turn more, face
onto me...
there we go, there we go, so we can see
actually, that we'll get like again, a pop
and blur, if you move it too fast.
You want to be a little wary of it, me I can
see my shutter speed changing, I'm at a 40th
right now, that's a little slow, but again
she's not moving really around.
Turn this way, losing the, okay you can
look like here, when you're good, good,
pretty nice, like that and even when the
Sun comes up, my shutter speed will just
increase. Now if you are in a
tremendously bright space, and you shutter
speed might go over 250, then you got
to make sure you put your camera in
high-speed sync, where your flashe is rather.
We have that ability to do that,
but now I'm ok I did a
test and it's 250.
It's not gonna be a problem.
I am at around 1/100th of a second right
now, and you can see we did a lot there.
Let's do one where you're not making a
funny face.
I always end up on..
it's a funny face.
So I did a lot to kind of show you guys.
I was hoping the Sun would come down
and it did, I asked it..
I was like Sun ... come down.... and it did!
So just to show you as we're going
up, and these shutter speeds are changing
and shifting but her exposure looks
exactly the same, and we've got the nice
consistency of the flash.
That's really what we're going for here,
kind of a complex setup, to make a
simple shot right?
Sometimes that's what we have to do.
So what you want to do when you're in
a situation like this.
Natural light can be great, emulating
natural light is even better,
because then you have the control,
and really, I probably could do this at
night, even it would be the same you
know, if I was doing that I might back this up
a little bit more.
More coverage... I'd have to be here to
test it, but essentially it's the same thing
right?
now the sun's coming through the window,
it's bouncing off though the V flat.
It's coming back, the flash is in the same
position it's bouncing off the V flats
coming back. It's basically emulating
what's already there.
So I'm gonna put
Farah's information in the description.
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next time OnSet.