Hi I'm Tamara Lackey for AdoramaTV and this is Mugsy, my new lighting assistant.
We're going to walk you through a new commercial shoot set up I did you, using a
combination of natural light and strobes.
AdoramaTV presents 'The reDefine Show' with Tamara Lackey.
We were shooting for a new commercial campaign for Nikon,
using the D 7200 and their associated kit lens the 18-140 lens, and I
had a situation where we had some natural light coming into the home and
we wanted to photograph a mom and her twin toddlers but we needed to bring in
supplemental light. Check out this lighting diagram.
As you can see I'm shooting directly across from my subjects and they have the natural light coming in
from that window to the left of them and to the right of them I have attached a
Profoto B2 strobe onto a lighting stand with the deep umbrella used as a
light shaper or lighting modifier the reason I chose the deep umbrella is
often more ease its so easy to attach and you get this lovely soft light and
the combination of the two together, the natural light coming in, and the deep
umbrella filling in the spaces really did the job. And another thing I like to
tell people to consider whenever their photographing children with a strobe or
any sort of flash device, is to just go ahead and pop off a few shots that don't
really register, that don't really matter and let the kids get used to the light
so they're not heavily distracted, like for instance this dogs is heavily
distracted . That is a really great technique when working with any sort of
subject that's going to be drawn to the lights and not be able to act naturally
on camera with the addition of the lights. Check out the scene.
Thanks so much for joining me on that commercial walkthrough. That's combination
lighting setup you can do that with any sort of shoot. Portrait, commercial,
editorial, wedding whatever. It's nice because it's simple, it's ready to go. It's
TTL and it works very consistently, nearly every time. Don't forget to join
me here on AdoramaTV, next time. I think Mugsy has the hiccups. Join me next time on
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