It's Vanessa Joy here with AdoramaTV,
and I'm gonna show you how to get those
epic rain shots.
Do you hear my stomach?
I'm hungry... feed me!
Can I have some nuts please?
Woooah... who's going to clean that up..
So here's a trick to the rain shot!
One! It's definitely easier if it's
darker outside...
it was about two o'clock
in the afternoon, so it wasn't that dark
for us...
so I'll tell you how I did this...
but in general, you want to be in the
dark, and it's raining, and it's much
easier that way, but if you're not in the
dark and it's raining, and you need to take a
nighttime shot, in the middle of the day
like I did here, look for a dark
background.
I put on a nice long lens on my Canon
135... 2.0...
so that the background
will come closer to my subjects, and it
was just engulf the whole background.
So the rain really shows up on the dark background.
I went as high as I could on
my shutter speed, 8,000 shutter speed to
really tried to get the ambient light as
dark as I could, even with that I needed
it to be darker still, so my ISO was
really low, and my f-stop was really high.
I put the light directly behind them,
trying to point it a little bit more
towards the groom than the bride
because the bride's dress will easily blow out,
especially if she's wearing a veil.
So try to point the light more towards the
groom, don't put a modifier on it.
Don't put a grid on it you want this light to
spread as much as possible, while still
hiding behind the couple, because I was
shooting during the day, and trying to
make it look like it was night.
I needed all the power out of my Profoto
B1 that I could get.
Alright this is what we've got, it's not so
bad, there is a little bit of her dress blown
out here.
We couldn't fix it in post, honestly I would
have liked to have seen that in camera,
and done something about it, but it was
freezing and raining, and they were out
there without an umbrella for me..
so we're just trying to get this shot as
fast as humanly possible.
You could also show the light if you want
to get a little bit of flare like I did with
these last two images.
A little bit of a personal preference, but if
you're gonna do that, the higher aperture,
it gets more of a starburst out of it,
so it looks fu.
I also turned on my B10 with the OCF
beauty dish to try to get a little bit
of light on their faces, and didn't love
the way this turned out, and they were
getting a little bit antsy and
absolutely freezing, since this wasn't
actually rain it was sleet...
So my final shot or it's that nice silhouette
of the two of them high lighting
all of the rain, and this is straight out
of camera. The fun part is when I went to
go look at this in post later, I realized...
hey, I could take this photo and brighten
it up about three stops in post, and get
a completely different look.
Which was interesting mind you,
though this is not
the cleanest thing to do, you need to get
this right in camera.
Can I pull this up and make it not a
silhouette? Sure...
but it's gonna degrade
the quality of the image.
You're gonna see tons of noise, and all of
the shadows, and you just don't want that...
it might look great on Instagram guys, but the
second you print it, your clients gonna
want to know why her gorgeous 24 by 36
canvas looks like a muddy piece of crap.
I did take some pictures of them walking
away, just because you know - we only have
them out there for a second.
So any little extra thing... it's great, and I can
probably bring these, and turn these into
black and white, and they'll pass as fine...
but try to get your main shot right in
camera, and then anything extra, it's just
a little bit of sweetness on the top..
You have have to toss it up....
it's violent I don't like it....it's in my hair...
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