This is Vanessa Joy
Breathe Your Passion here
on AdoramaTV, and I'm gonna
show you how to make heinous
looking light... look alright.
You ever walk into a venue..
and it looks amazing,
but then you take a picture and
it looks like this!
So here's the thing...
sometimes you work with clients,
and they think this picture spot is gorgeous
because of all the chandeliers, and this
and that and the other thing.
Then you go to take a picture, and it's absolutely
horrible... well I could look at this
picture here, and then attempt to just
fix it with white balance, but it's just
gonna look like this, and that still
doesn't look good, and then I've got a
lot of post work to do, I don't want to do that.
I want to get it as right IN
camera as I possibly can.
So what I'm gonna look for is just finding the
biggest solid surface that I can, and in
my case this is a pale yellow wall.
I'd love a white wall but... pale yellow will do.
So we're gonna point it at them - light
travels in straight lines so back to
geometry class kids, you're gonna have to
think about the angle that the light is
hitting that wall.
It's going to bounce off at an equal angle
if you play pool..kind of the same thing.
I don't have a modifier in this case, so I'm
just firing this light on this wall and that entire
wall and that becomes my light source.
First shot doesn't look so great...
why does it look yellow even though my white
balance really isn't all that off?
Because my light is reflecting off the
yellow wall.
So therefore everything's a
little bit yellow, I have to adjust for
that. So adjusting for it works okay, and
now we're just gonna tweak our settings.
Adjusting the white balance, adjusting
the exposure to try to make it look good
when I'm doing this I'm getting my
exposure just like I normally would, as
if I didn't have a flash, and then I'm
turning on my Profoto B1 and setting it
to TTL, so it does a little work for me.
I don't have to guess, I'm just gonna let
it do the work for me.
Mow we're okay we got it around where
want it to be as far as color goes,
but I see some ugly shadows on the wall.
Can't really do too much about that,
unless you have another light, or maybe
you're reflecting a light.
So I decided to just move them over a
little bit, so that the angle of the light isn't so bad,
because I don't have another light here
in the situation, I'm using a reflector to
bounce light back at them.
So my shadows
aren't as harsh, and it just looks a
little bit more flattering on their face.
So I'm gonna scoot them over a little
bit... yeah... scoot them over a little bit...
that really helps!
I'm gonna scoot them
over a little bit, and get them in a
better spot where the shadow isn't gonna
show up on the wall, not just because of
where the light is, but
because I also move over...
so I'm just not seeing as much of the
shadow on the wall.
It looks okay...
try to get a little bit better...a cleaner
background, making sure there's nothing
behind their heads, and then zooming in there
really allows me to just crop out
the shadow.
Now I've got some nice portraits of them
in an area that would
have been extremely ugly
had it just been the light that I was
working with.
So you see how their skin tones are nice
and soft, they're natural, that's what
their skin actually looks like as
opposed to if I didn't have this off
camera flash.
Would have looked something
like this, not only are their skin tones
off in color, and again I could try with
the white balance, but it's not gonna do
what it needs to do.
the background is brighter than they are,
so it would have had to wash out the
background more... the
attention of viewer would not have gone
to their faces.
All around better photo...
when I have the light off camera
bouncing off the environment around me,
so it's nice and big and soft and lovely.
That's how you walk into a place with a
really strange light, and take control.
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