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hi this is Joe McNally AdoramaTV
and in this particular deconstructing episode I'm gonna talk to you about
using
accent lights to bring your viewers attention to a reason the photo
that you want them to look at we're lucky enough on a recent visit
to Qatar to photographed with us
really great guy and also happens to be one of the leading high jumpers in the
world he won the bronze medal at the London Games
so he's very athletic very rangy person
okay and he's got these metals so as a portrait what I need to do
editorially is draw your attention not only to him in his face and all that but
also to the editorial significant
why we might be photographing him which of course is his
athletic prowess resulting in this array of metals
so we position them in this picturesque doorway
and we live in with the easy box hatch use of boxer
24-inch hot shoe softbox up over Kammer
and slightly to the right camera so basic position is
the doorway say for instance is here very ornate doorway
my subject is right here very very tall
my cameras right here its is all about symmetry
straight into this whole thing I've gotta see stand here
with the easy box up
and slightly to the right camera as you can see so this is our main light
right here but what about the metals that are all in here
that he is you know kinda cradling you know you have to draw attention to that
so for that I put in a low light with the snoot grid
this newly created goes over my small flash
I'm using SP 910s and I put a little color and that about a half a
kind of CT 0 because the medals
are warm gold bronze at center okay so
I pop a little bit a flash into this area
his body why I want to draw my viewers attention
by lighting or not lighting something you are speaking
to the person you'll never meet who is viewing your photograph you're saying to
them
hey this is a significant accomplishment look down here at this Olympic bronze
medal
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I thought to myself why would I have this
amazingly beautiful ornate door way back in here and have it just be dead
out at the exposure just you know two stops down or so it just kinda
almost greyed out you know because there's no life to it
because there's no light on it so I simply took another flash
and I Joe that warm and I put it here on the floor
now one thing that we do often times I know the Justin clamp
is a very famous for being able to clamp
your lights on two things you know rails post this and that but quick and dirty
we oftentimes
will put are light on the Colts you
and just sit this down on the floor and use it as a poor state
you know DD so once again
in wrapping this up a main light read about here
okay lighting my subjects face but then
the luxury items if you will that really kinda finesse the picture and rounded
out
a small spot on the medals right under here
okay and a light on the floor behind here
both mr. John warm this one's lighting the door
this is light in the medals it's all done TTL thanks very much for stopping
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