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In this episode, another prolific photographer from the AdoramaTV team, and also one of the founders of Lynn and Joseph photography, and SLRlounge.com – Pye will explain how to shoot portraits in the harsh midday light.
Pye explains “I have Maury and Courtney in our background right here. We’re shooting midday, unfortunately in the wintertime, midday in California, we still have a good directional light, so it’s like noon right now, but at least we have some direction to the Sun, and oftentimes when we’re trying to utilize a backlight, we don’t frame the subject over a background, or we can really see it. Oftentimes I’ll see images where we kind of take a shot of our subjects, where they’re sort of framed against a lighter background with a bright exposure, the hair light that’s on them it just completely disappears.”
“So to emphasize our hair lights, what I really want to do is get them into a place where my camera angle shoots them against a darker background, and we have that right here in these hedges. So I’m gonna show you the difference between those two, with just making some simple adjustments. We’re gonna shoot this at f/14, 1/2,000th and ISO100 just so I have a little bit of depth in my shot, so I do want to see a little bit of separation between the back, and what I’m gonna do now is, shoot them right against that hedge. This isn’t gonna be the final image, but it is to show you just how big of a difference, so look at the hair light, – now we can’t see the hair light over this versus this second shot, it’s just so emphasized, so that’s really the main gist of this.”
“When you are placing your subjects, and getting your camera angle, if you really want that hair light to pop, place them against a darker background. “
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