Hey this is Daniel Norton.
I'm here in my studio in New York City
with Ashley, and we decided to try
something fun.
She had a black dress,
and I have a white wall,
and we said that seems boring, so we're
gonna throw some color at it.
So I'm gonna use the idea of kind of one light,
crossing the other light and filling in
to create essentially colored shadows on
the wall. Now when you're doing this kind
of technique, you can take it to all
different kinds of extremes. When I do it
I like generally to have at least
one neutral in there, to keep the balance
to the eye. So I've got a B1X over here
with a color gel. This one is we call it
pink. It's a pink color this is a B1X
over here with a purple.. purpley color,
Right? And this is a B2, that is fitted
with a 10 degree grid. 10 degree grid,
because wherever the neutral light hits,
we're not gonna have any color. I don't
want to get rid of all my color, I just
want to have like a little bit of clean
light on her face. So this is going to be
a hard light, which as we've used
actually in many videos before.
We know that her face takes hard light
really nicely, so you're good for this.
if you had to use like a big soft light, it
probably would get rid of our shadows
too much. So you kind of want to think
about that.
So with this all combined I'm
gonna go back to my camera here, and
yeah
I've got the 85mm on my Canon,
I've got the three light setup, and will
shoot each one individually, first so
first we're gonna do the, I'll turn them
all off first. All right they're off, I'm
going to turn on A, so A is, this guy over
here with the purple, so we can see what
that looks like.
OK, we've got a bit of a purpley shot
there. It's a little on the dark side, but
I think we'll adjust that once we get
them all going, because we're gonna add
extra light to it. So let's turn over a
second on our pink light, right, okay
that's about the same exposure as a
purple one roughly, and with this little
thing here, you know, even just that is
kind of interesting right? Why not? And
then of course our clean light is in the
center. It also creates kind of a
spotlight, a cool look, but you can
already get a feeling how this is gonna
work out right? So now let's bring them
all up.
So they're all on now, and then
again I'm in manual.
What I'm gonna do is
take a shot, I'm gonna make adjustments
to each like to get them where we want,
but you'll see immediately what happens here.
Okay we've got remember everything
looked a little bit dark, that's why I left
it the way it was. We have a nice light
on her face, you know you get a little
color in there, but it's definitely you
know, neutralish right? It is a hard light
like I said, so you're getting some little
highlights, but that's okay.
Oh look at that cool catch-light in her eye.
It's like aliens are coming in,
and then we've got our shadows over here,
so of course wherever more of the white
light is hitting, the shadow is, is less
intense colors. Just like light blue
and then you've got always down to a
darker purple here, and when she moves
her arm around creating different
shadows, will get different shapes so
let's just bang some stuff out see what we got.
Again this is all about playing.. nice... don't
worry about it too much...
you could if you weren't actually shooting
an OnSet video while you were doing this
you could turn the lights off, and just put
the modeling light on,
but what you guys probably
aren't shooting an outside video I'm
assuming. Actually nice, there we go, fun,
simple, and you can do this in any which way.
You could even just have one colored
light coming in, and wherever you
multi-angle to, wherever you don't have
neutral. Is going to be the color right?
So basically over here, we've got
different degrees of the light, and just
to show you that because I always like
to throw in one extra thing I didn't talk about when,
before we started is...
I'm just gonna take the grid off show you the difference
grid... what I just said was 10 degrees, but it's
actually 20, and that eats up some light.
Ooh we got some mail.
So I'm going to turn the light down a stop,
and let's see what... yeah now, we have a big spread
of light.
We only have the colored shadow
where her shadow would be from that key
light. Right?
nice and simple, it's a cool
technique to try.
Really easy, and again these are just
individual hard lights.
They could be anything, I'm using Profoto
B1X's, you could be using speed lights,
even just with constant lights.
if you, if you were in a dark enough space
and to get a cool effect.
So going to put Ashley's information in the
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course and I'll see you next time OnSet.