Okay, so now that we had our one light in there, we're just gonna add another on in there. And this is mostly to to really make him stand out from the background and just add another element of interest in there. So, we have this light over on the left side of him and that's really just hitting his face right now. We're trying to keep it off of his shoulders, 'cause we really want a dark shadow right down this middle. Again, we're still in the same theme of being very dramatic in these shots. And then we're adding another light on the other side, where we can just hit the backside of his head. So we can show that a little bit more. And get it out of the shadow. Illuminate the subject a little bit better. We switched up our modifiers before we had a big, big really focused umbrella that was kind of hard. And we switched it over to a beauty box. Which is just basically a portable beauty dish. Beauty dish is kind of a soft, hard light. And it's kind of almost directional as well too. We'r...

e gonna use these two lights and see what we can get out of it. Yeah, so, yeah keep that same pose we had from the first light. Look back just a little bit more. Perfect, yeah. Just keep back. Try to replicate the same shot. (camera clicking) So I'm gonna lay back down on the ground to get a much lower angle, try to get sky. And just him in there. We're gonna shoot this same shot. Yep, I like that arm out there so really separates from your body, good. Pull your hand just a little bit back, though. In towards your, towards your leg. There you go, right there. A little separation is always good when you're working with arms around body. Especially in a very dramatic situation. Because otherwise you could end up losing limbs, a lot of the times. So, a little separation is very great. Okay, great. Couple more of these. One second. Pull your left shoulder a little bit more towards me. Fantastic. (camera clicking) Good. Pull our hand out just a little bit more on your right. On your right side, grip the ball with your left. Yep, good. (camera clicking) Perfect, one more. (camera clicking) All right, so now we have, we have a lot more light, we have a separation light on the right side. I think I want a little bit more, more shadow on his backside. Right now we have a shadow, oh thank you. We have a shadow right here if you can look off again. We have a shadow here. His shirt's a little bit more lit 'cause obviously he's facing towards the light. So we're gonna have Ken scoot this over to your, yep. Perfect right there. We're just really aiming for this side. And this one is obviously just aiming right here. We have a diffusion on this front side for his face to make it a little bit softer. And then the back side is going to be a little bit harder because it doesn't have one. So I'm at the same settings, 2500th of a second. 3.2 and ISO 50. So I'm gonna lay back down, shoot the same shot. (camera clicking) Great. (camera clicking) Good, one more. Breathe. (camera clicking) Great, let me see here. I really like what's going on right now. It's really lighting his face fully. But we can even move the light a little bit more that way and get a little bit more shadow on this side of his face as well. So, we're gonna have Caleb move it a few inches over, just to get a little bit more. This nose is gonna create a shadow right here. It's gonna kinda create this sort of a shadow and define his face a little bit more as opposed to just throwing all the light directly on it. He's not moving from his position, but we're changing up the mood of the photo. I'm gonna lay right back down where I was. My settings are still exactly the same as they were before. 2500th of a second, 3.2 and 50 ISO. And I'm still using a 24 to 70 millimeter lens. (camera clicking) (camera clicking) (camera clicking) Great, one more. (camera clicking) Perfect, yeah. Little progression there. We might not be able to go back to the first one. But this is the last shot here. So basically just added that edge lighting right there. This is the harder light. So you can see on the face, when we go back a few, and then you can see that's the fuller light I believe. So there's more of a shine when you get to the harder one. It's a little bit more like a hard white light on it. And you see a lot more shadow, you don't see the side light on that one.

buy this class

$00

Buy Class

Sale Ends Soon!

starting under

$13/month*

Unlock this classplus 2000+ more >

79.7K Students

99% Recommend this Class

00 Student Work

0 Video lessons in HD
00h 00m of class content
Exclusive bonus content
Lifetime access, anywhere, anytime
Streaming access on desktop and mobile browsers
Download and offline access with class purchase
Offline sync with our iPhone & iPad apps
100% satisfaction guarantee

Dustin Snipes

Dustin Snipes is a Los Angeles, California-based portrait and sports photographer.He works frequently with major national and international publications and brands including Red Bull, Nike, Coca-Cola, Wilson Tennis, Marriott, Spyder, Reebok, KFC, ESPN The Magazine, New York Times Magazine, Los Angeles Magazine, Men's Fitness, Shape, Sports Illustrated and Time.

SEE INSTRUCTOR'S CLASSES

topics covered in this class

Adventure & Sports Lighting Digital Photography Digital Photography Digital Photography

Ratings and Reviews

awynterphotos

Loved all the ideas and why he's positioned his athletes the way he did, and positioned the lighting. I met Dustin a few years ago at and NPAC conference. It's nice to see him doing these teaching videos. His work is very inspiring to me.

a Creativelive Student

Less talk and all action.. This is the best no mumbo jumbo talks and straight to practical work..

Alexandra Schaede

I really enjoyed the multiple exposure video, the pity is that they are no videos to talk about the post processing of this image.

2,000+ classes ranging from fundamentals to advanced techniques.

Cross Light Outdoor Portrait

Cross Light Outdoor Portrait

Lesson Info

4. Cross Light Outdoor Portrait

Lessons

One Light Outdoor Portrait

Focus Umbrella Outdoor Portrait

Outdoor Athlete Hero Image