Hey, this is Daniel Norton, I'm here in my
studio in New York City with Andres, and
we've got some cool fun lights to work
with today.
I got these nan light tubes,
they're you know, you guys are probably
seen as lots of companies now putting
out these RGBW LEDs, and man they really
allow you to use color in a fun way,
you know, so I thought we'd do something
with that, because I've been seeing a lot of
people using gels like this Rosco kit
here which is super useful, if you do not
have LEDs, or you want to use flash to
kind of create images where they're
crossing colors that are complementary
which then basically neutralizes them
out, you know, because if you take a color,
like we have red and green right, and you
put them together, and you mix them
equally you'll be... you basically get
gray, or nothing - neutral light right?
So what's cool about this right, it might
seem like if Andre is supposed to help to
hold them out, right you can see clearly
like one side of his face is red, the
other side is green, but when we start to
bring the lights more in front of them,
and they blend, you can actually see how
it becomes neutral, that's because again
they're complementary colors, so
basically as they cross, they're going to
be neutral, and what's fun is, because
Andres is not just a flat piece of paper,
he's a 3-dimensional actual person, he's
gonna have you know features, and if we
manipulate the lights, and don't just
hold them perfectly straight right, we
can actually create different color
shadows, different patterns of neutrality
plus color in the different shadows, and
we can change these up to whatever
color we want.
So I just found the closest red
and green, that I thought were kind of
neutral, and it took a minute or so.
It worked pretty well,
and we got that, so we're gonna play
around with these a little bit.
We're gonna create some shots,
and we're gonna play around with colored
shadows, we're gonna play around with
mixing light, and we're gonna see what we get.
Okay so, let's have some fun right,
we've got the the two lights, we went a
red and blue, now and we're gonna just
create a bunch of different types of shots here,
just kind of messing around with it, and
just playing with the color because one
of the great things about these tubes
you know is, that you can just change the
color on the fly, mix it up and change
the saturation, it's so fast, so it's one
of those things where we can really play
with them, and then if we find something
we really like, we can then work that but
I enjoyed just kind of you know
experimenting with these as we go.
So let's kill this again, when you're using
any kind of constant light source, you
want to kill as many of the lights in
the space that aren't being used as
possible, so let's start with yeah, let's
do like a half and half, that's
really nice, so I'm at just using the
meter in the camera.
I'm gonna under expose a tiny bit,
I think I'm at the 125mm, F4.0. 500 ISO,
let's take a shot of that and take a peek.
I'm in Capture One as always.
Oh yeah, that's pretty cool, so you see we
got the the colored stripes on the wall.
We've got the the, you know, one side of
face is blue, the other ones red,
it again blue and red being kind of
opposite ish... right,
so let's see if we can cross the lights.
Maybe do like yeah, they were gonna get
kind of a neutrally shot, so I'm gonna
come in, and not show them to start with,
now the thing is right,
unlike using the perfect gels or
whatever this is,
not gonna be a 100% perfect right, we come in here,
he's a little bit looks like he's a
little bit magenta to me, so if you want
to do something like that, you may have
to do a slight tweak here.
That again, that's one reason why we're
shooting RAW or in Capture One you
know and I can actually make it pretty,
pretty cool like that, and what's cool here is, look at this,
we still have those like weird color
shadows there, so let's actually do that,
but let's like work the lights in and
out of it, so we can actually mess with
those shadows, yeah, cool,
there's also a good exercise right,
we could sell this idea to a gym as a way
to get in good shape yeah, are we just
playing around,
yeah you know, mixing up the colors
creating this weird vibe right, we have
this color going on right, and we and we
have lots of shadows, lots of mood in the
background yeah.
Let's, let's do, yeah there we go,
looking up is good, so let's
try some where we actually move the
lights into the shot, I think that's
really fun as well, they're going to over,
over expose for sure, they do have
writing on them,
but you know, it's out of focus, some of
that worried about it, plus that way we
can then you know sell them, to nanlight.net
you always think like that, oh this is
cool, cool, composition, you know again
playing around with them by the way guys,
there there are adapters oh, that's very
cool there are adapters, that come with
these that allow you to put them on
anything quarter-twenty, that's cool, I'm
just checking my exposure again, yeah,
it's pretty nice, okay, what's cool about
this is - don't fall back... what's cool,
about this is that because I'm shooting
you know, with the mirrorless camera,
I'm able to just kind of watch, so if my
exposure seems like it's getting too out
of whack, I can always make adjustments.
I like that, now come right into the lens,
good, yeah, that's nice, good fun, alright
let's do, let's do sides again, and then I
was gonna come in, I'm gonna shoot it
let's say, I'm gonna come and do some
horizontals here, tip them, yeah exactly,
what's cool about this too is that
they're kind of, they're very bright in
the shot, so look, they look almost white,
actually my exposure is a bit hot.
so I'm just gonna drag, I'm gonna go faster
on my shutter, that's probably the
simplest way to do it, and again I'm just
going there, over exposing right, so you
can actually see a little tint here, but
for the most part these lights look
almost white, and we're getting kind of a
fun, oh there you go, that's kind of cool
too, but yeah, do that, but turn them
towards me...
mmm, nope you, some of you think things
are cool and they don't work,
now you're just too dark, but you can't
see, good, that's nice, oh that's cool,
so kind of like it underneath vibe.
Good, good, good,
we drop your chin a bit though,
right there, I think we're gonna
be a little hot, yeah, so do that, but
bring them out this way, yeah,
there we go this is that kind of rough
funky vibe,
yeah it's kind of like not pretty like,
but has a lot of character to it,
it has character.
This is your character, like drop them a
smidge in front of you, good, right there.
What's great about this right is,
a I can literally just direct the light where I
want, that's super nice,
that looks with a smidge dark.
I'm gonna come down on my
shutter again, I'm just keeping track of
my exposure, it's funny how you can
create kind of like very clean light,
even though we're clearly using a red
and the blue light here,
let's do you, let's do that,
when it's kind of coming towards my lens.
Let's actually do that again,
it splits but put it... actually Dave...
come help, oh they're so warm, no they're
actually not, okay, that's cool, I like it
looking right towards me, that's nice,
I'm gonna go a bit wider on my lens, so I
could actually, can you let go of them.
Andreas, will they stay, yeah, yeah, I don't
mind if you, you can, you can pivot up on
my, on my shoulders, if you want bring
them in a bit Dave, towards Andreas,
oh well, yeah, yeah like that's pretty
good, right there, good right, though,
Yeah right there, right there, right there,
this might be a little hot, I'm gonna
bring my shutter speed up a bit right there.
Oops, oh yeah, there we go,
cool, very nice, right, maybe, that looks
pretty good.
Oh yeah, that's pretty nice, thanks Dave.
Qh that's so cool, it really creates this
environment, what's funny to is, like
how dark it falls off behind you, because
the light is so close to him right?
It's just really just bringing the light in,
and it almost like you know, your face,
because of the different color, shape and
the different shadows, and almost
changes your face in every shot, which is really
cool, let's do a profile, good a little
profile, and put the lights behind you,
towards me, yeah, I'm curious, how that's
gonna look, now just bring them slightly
forward, so they go like that right, there,
beautiful, let's see what that looks like.
Oh that's so neat, okay that's pretty
neat, let me do it without getting the
Actually I like to, like the lights in
the shot actually that's it, the chin
down was kind of cool, yeah, and then just
bring your eyes a little bit like right
here, just yeah, right there, perfect,
perfect, perfect, - hold on, focusing good,
good, good, last one, wow, yeah,
that's pretty neat, right, and look at how
interesting the color gets, there so cool
that's pretty nice right, that's your
Star Wars, when they do the next nine
movies, will definitely get you in there.
Okay, cool, thanks, that's awesome,
um I need some light, ah thank you, see this,
you got to bring your lighting
everywhere, just like you know all the
celebrities, I have my own lightning,
so yeah guys, if you see anything from this,
I think the idea here is, just to play
around with color, color is one of those
things, it's, that it's really gonna add
something to your shots, yeah it can be
gimmicky, if you don't, you know,
if you're just kind of using it for random
reasons, but play, see what you like,
then create shots that really work with it,
and if you want a lot more control,
even though these are awesome,
you can look into the jail,
so I'll put a link to those - you
know, in the description, with all the
gear as well.
The gels I talked about at
the beginning, those will give you a more
precise, but I find this to be just
really a fun way to do it, so I'm gonna
put under his stuff in the description.
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