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What can be better than a golden hour for a photographer? Oh well, if only the sunrise/sunset time were to happen every hour, that would have been great, right?! In this episode amazing Vanessa Joy (via her awesome show “Breathe Your Passion” highlighted by AdoramaTV) will teach you how to make golden hour happen any time you want!
Vanessa at the set: “We’re here with Stazia, she’s actually also a photographer and I’m gonna take her head shot. When it’s cloudy out clients, at least mine, still expect that light airy warm golden hour feel but as you know we don’t always have that luxury. So what we’re going to do is use off-camera flash in order to simulate the Sun.”
“So there are two ways that you can go about doing this, the first I’m going to show you involves two lights but you can do this with just one so first off to the left, we have the Profoto B1, it has a half CTO gel on it. Which just means I’m turning it orange. Why? Because the Sun is orange. So I’m gelling that they’re so it mimics the Sun and I’m also putting it in a position, low and behind my subject just like if I did have that nice golden hour glow that’s where I would position the Sun as well. So really all we’re doing with that Profoto light there is mimicking the Sun.”
“I’m going to want to fill her face as well and make sure the light is flattering there. There is two ways I can do this but first we’re going to start off with using a softbox. So I have a second Profoto B1 light here and it has a softbox on it has the 3×2 softbox, nice and close to her so we get a really soft light. “
“The way that I get the exposure first is I use my live view and I want to just get the exposure as if I was going to photograph her without all these lights. “
“…now I’m going to do is turn on my TTL. So one of the nice things about the Profoto lights that I love is the TTL function which is just letting me use auto, really to get the roundabout power that I want coming out of my lights. So I’m not doing anything else but putting on my transmitter and firing again. “
“I just have light coming in. What I usually do at this point is I change from TTL to manual so that now I can control and tweak my lights how I want them to be. I could walk over to my lights to do that or I can just do that on my transmitter here. So looking at that picture I know that I want the backlight my sun to be a little bit brighter. I’m going to move the light a little bit closer to her though, the more soft it’s gonna be. “
“I’ve also set my white balance to 5600 Kelvin and that’s because I I have the same balance on the light, which is at 5600 Kelvin.”
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