Hi this is Vanessa Joy with Breathe Your
Passion on AdoramaTV.
Today we are
going to talk about how to create sun
flare when there is none.
So the tools that we are going to use to
create sun flare are the Profoto B2. I
have the Half CTO Gel on here, if you're
not too familiar with why we're doing
this check out one of my older videos
about creating golden hour when there
isn't golden hour but we're
going to have a little bit
more of a practical use for it today.
So Profoto B2 Half CTO Gel on here, I've got
my Profoto transmitter. We're using the
Canon 1D X and the
50 mm f/1.2 Canon lens and my
goal here is just to pretend that this
light is the sun. We're going to
position it behind our couple that we
have back here,
Abigail and Andy, so that it just looks
like a little bit of warmth, a little bit
of glow coming in in an area as you can
tell which has very flat light. There's
not much going on here. There is a nice
wall back behind you guys,
it's white and it's reflecting but it's
still not very dynamic and if you're a
photographer that shows work that has
that nice light, airy, warm glow,
sometimes you need to make it for yourself.
So let's give it a try.
I've sent my
assistant back behind the couple,
not directly behind them, a little
bit off because just like if I was
shooting into the sun, I want the light
coming in to flare into my camera so
she's a little bit behind them, a little
bit off and she's going to point the
light directly at the couple, directly
at the back of their heads.
Now, for you guys what I'll have you do,
I'm going to have you Abigail
turn your back in
towards him this way.
So spin all the way around.
So your back is in towards him.
Keep going, keep spinning.
You're like Cinderella.
So what you'll do Andy is
bear hug around her
shoulders, perfect!
Bring your hands more towards
her front arm here.
When we are posing we want to pay
special attention to hands.
So I love the hand placement here,
she's holding on to him
it's making them feel nice and warm
and connected.
Let's get our exposure.
So I'm going to
create my exposure exactly like I would
if there was no Profoto light.
So using Live View is my
little trick on how I do it.
My settings are right now.
Let's go to 50 on my ISO,
3.2 on my aperture and 200
on my shutter and let's just see how
that looks.
It's a little bit dark
so I'm going to go down to f/2.5.
That's definitely better.
So now I'm just
going to turn on my Profoto
transmitter here, set it to TTL which is
basically just Auto for the light and
it's going to pump out the right amount
of power that it thinks it needs for
this shot.
So a little bit lower.
When I have my assistant holding a light
I want it to be low because at
golden hour the sun is low
and we're mimicking that.
You can go to almost waist level.
I want it coming through these trees
right here because it'll create a nice
warm glow behind the palm trees as well.
So get your heads nice and close
together and kind of tilt down, look down.
I don't want my assistant in the shot.
I'm just playing a little bit to see if I
can get some of that flare in there.
Point it towards them a little bit more
this way, there we go.
I'm going to switch over
to manual now that I have a fairly
decent exposure and then I'm going to
bump up my power.
Let's try bumping it up
just two stops here and see what happens.
So same exact thing guys.
I'm going to have you take a little step
that way, tilt it towards them a little more.
What we have here just some
nice, light and airy
golden glow looks as if I had the sun
right behind them.
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