Reducing Shadows with a Light Kit
Lesson 16 from: SLR Lounge Live Q and A and Image CritiquePye Jirsa
Reducing Shadows with a Light Kit
Lesson 16 from: SLR Lounge Live Q and A and Image CritiquePye Jirsa
Lessons
Class Introduction
03:03 2Highlight Alert, White Balance, and Bracketing
10:25 3RAW vs JPG and Mirror Lockup Function
08:05 4Which is Better: sRGB vs Adobe 1998?
04:56 5White Balance and Color Correction in Camera
04:49 6What is the Difference Between Full Frame and Crop Frame?
07:16 7How Do You Choose The Right Lens?
06:18 8Pye's Favorite Custom Functions
01:25Different Quality Lenses
09:42 10Lighting 101: How Do You Find the Light?
08:29 11Creating Flat Light
06:24 12How Do You Shape the Light?
02:26 13How and When to Use Your Hot Shoe Flash
13:47 14Flash Modifiers: Grids, Snoots, and Fresnel
06:48 15Is There a Best Time to Shoot with Natural Light?
05:18 16Reducing Shadows with a Light Kit
02:58 17Metering with Mixed Light
15:55 18Getting the Best Focus
08:32 19Why and When to Use Gels
07:54 20LEDs vs Strobes
14:49 21Overpowering Sun with Flash
04:42 22Shoot Through Umbrella vs Softbox
02:17 23Adjusting Flash After Setting Up Ambient
04:15 24Image Critique Part 1
29:52 25Image Critique Part 2
21:14 26Setting Up Lighting for a Reception
17:10 27Posing Tips for both Males and Females
13:38 28Special Effects & Mood Boards
05:56 29Working on Your Composition
06:19Lesson Info
Reducing Shadows with a Light Kit
This is a very common question when you're starting Teoh use on camera flash or its setting up some lighting, whether it's a little bit off camera to and Victoria says, I have a hard time controlling shadows when I set up my like it. Is there a specific way they should be set up to reduce shadows? So, like when you're trying to get it on a white background and you just see the shadows behind there? So usually, um, let's do this, Let's go. I'm gonna say this when you put up a light. The only thing that's confusing about a flash side getting enough of stand. Um, most people think of this differently than they do that, and that's where the problems come in. And we're trying to show everybody throughout the entire course is that you're not supposed to think of these as two separate things. They're one in the same thing. This just pulses. So the light that we see coming out of this guy, we just see for a split second that light that we see coming out of that guy. It's constant, okay, but it...
's the same exact thing. So when people have a hard time controlling their highlights and their shadows. It's usually because they're not thinking about it in the same way that they would a regular life. Think about this light is the exact same is this light. And so if you place it somewhere, think about is the constant light. If I put this right here, what shadows with this Creating my scene. I just just envisioned the light in your head. Envision that? It's constantly turned on. Where's the light gonna go? What objects will be creating shadows off of it. Okay. And you notice that as we start pulsing, you can see those shadows hitting the wall, right? Okay. So most the time when people say I have a hard time controlling my shadows and my highlights is because they're not thinking of it as a constant light, their thing game is like this pulse thing. And like so all we have to do to control that is adjust the position. Let's say that I don't want to hit these tripods. Okay? The first thing I'm gonna dio is I'm gonna say, Well, I need to bring this over here and let's see if if I'm shooting on this side. And now my shadows air dropping to the left side. Then they're not gonna be my friend. What if they still are? Then we say, Okay, we need a little bit of more light control, right? If this lightest spilling everywhere, the first thing I'm gonna do is go to a zoom. If zooming in my flash to 100 million, it doesn't work. It doesn't funnel enough. I'm gonna go to a grid, and eventually we stop hitting the tripods. Right? So it just comes down to essentially controlling that light, understanding what you're trying to do with it.
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