light is the essential aspect of photography
let's talk a little bit about it in a studio it's real easy for us to create
light
we have soft light here someplace diffused
and reflected now over here we have hard like
hard way to specular in small these different types have light
look different and we use them for different subjects
you don't need this expensive typeof equipment to produce this kind of like
when you're shooting at your house
let's talk about how we can accomplish that will show you some examples as well
soon as you can see
in this typical setting in a basement
or have a nice pool table we have a young woman is
playing pool getting a pictures a little difficult as you can see from our
image we have some issues with the light
in the foreground there's a harsh shadow behind her
the whites not very flattering let's look at a way to improve that like
I'm gonna take this flash I'm going to rotate the head
and bounced into the ceiling let's see what that gives us
I think you can see this a lot better picture
now there's nothing that we can do beyond just improving the picture
and flattering are subject we can also remove the flash from our camera
with an extension cable and point the flush to the wall
give us a whole different look let's do that
here's our cable can remove the flash from the camera
we'll put it on the cable
and then place the cable on the camera will point her flash
at the wall and the ceiling now
one thing that happened in this picture it's a little darker right because we
have diffused or light on the wall in the ceiling
we don't have as much like hitting the subject one way we can compensate for
that
is to raise the the power flash order opener aperture
let's opener aperture see we come up with
their ago that's a lot better shot it helps eliminate the room
it doesn't give us that dark cave look that you can get with a direct flash
or sometimes bounce flash from the ceiling as well were outdoors in this
Park in very hard life ball son
we're going to take a portrait of t-ara behind me and so let's
have see how that looks just using hard light without any modifications
my camera is set to aperture value
2.0 I've selected that aperture the shutter speed to correspond with that is
2002 the second and soon I'm gonna take some pictures and let's see how those
look room
free there you got it nice boats good perfect those are some pretty hard
like pictures that ratio between highlight and
shadow is really rough let's add some diffusion and see if we can turn this
hard light source
into a soft light source Wesley field is hold that the fuser up there
move in place good looks nice
we def use that light significantly let's take that picture
good
I like that attitude another thing that we've done
is we've been very mindful a bar background
we chose a darker background because we don't want
that to be distracting to our subject so the contrast between
the face or subject and the darker background helps her stand out as a
focal point
you can see that defusing the light has created a much softer
kinder gentler light for subject
and they'll usually like your picture a lot better now when you're shooting
outdoors
you don't always have the luxury of being able to shoot in direct sunlight
quite often you might be shooting in shade a way to deal with shade
is to use reflectors for example this is a disc reflector
and it has a silver side that's very efficient and reflecting light
and whiteside it's not quite as efficient
but usually gentler when it reflects the light
now let's look at these two examples how we took
shadowed light and reflected light back
into our subject so as we're taking this picture
tiara we have this strong shadow white that's on her
the Suns behind her back an illuminating the scene
and you can see that we have a pretty seriously
underexposed skin tone and order to bring that skin tone up to more pleasing
level
we bring in a reflector reflect the light on her face
and get a much nicer looking picture this is a good way to use reflectors
we've talked a lot about like hard light soft light
different qualities and the way we can use it hopefully they've been Inc
useful and construct you on how to use light
beneficially for your subject