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I continue on wearing part two of the
cracking code
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to lighting.
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And so let's take a look at what I
would call a general rule to help you
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understand where to put your modifier,
where to start.
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So what I do for an overhead light,
this is an overhead concept, like I
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have an overhead with me right now, a
beauty dish, or whatever you want,
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and I take the diameter of the
modifier, so it'll say it's a two foot
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modifier, 24 inch modifier.
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Then it becomes two feet.
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From the white diffusion, to my nose,
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that's a great starting 0.
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And i'll show you images here, in a
minute, of what that looks like.
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Now, if I take a five footer, five foot
octo
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angle, five feet, that gives me the
exact same quality of light as a two
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foot or two feet.
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I'll show you that in a minute.
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A seven foot or seven feet gives me the
same quality, only obviously it's going
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to spread more.
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If I take a sudden photo and bring it
in, and at five feet is going to be softer.
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Then a two foot or at two feet, if I
bring a seven footer in at two feet,
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which I don't think I could do, that
that's pretty ultrasoft and I've done
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not an overhead, seven foot, but I've
done it a few times
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by experimenting, doing some really fun
stuff.
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But that's a good starting 0, and it's
a rule of thumb.
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And I always hate to
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go by rule Rules, because you want to
break the Rules to fit your goal.
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In result, you don't want to be locked
into something.
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So let's take a look at a visual effect
of how that works.
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But I just explained to you.
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Now
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we're going to talk about the invers
square law.
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I've already actually recorded it.
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It's going to be a part of this
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master class.
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And
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the inverse square law, like we said
before, you actually,
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no matter whether or not you know the
law, it applies.
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Every time you set up a light and you
throw light, the invers square law
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happens just like gravity.
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I've kind of understood that, and i'll
explain this simply here.
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And I've done this demo many times
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before.
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I really sat down and said, let me
break down the inverse square level.
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Now it makes a lot more sense to me,
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and so it's kind of fun.
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But
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let me give you this little
presentation here.
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And this was run into my other craft.
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And so I apologize if you've already
watched that you can skip past this.
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But basically, I have a small modifier
in front of my subject.
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And I go and I create what I think is
beautiful light on my subject.
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And I say and say, I have a white
background, that white background is
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going to be a dark gray or a darker
gray value.
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If
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I always get an example, if I shoot my
subject and I'm doing it for a client,
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and it's going to be goggles,
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we're going to do more of the headshot
with goggles, maybe even waste up.
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But still, the goggles are the most
important thing.
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Or the cap
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speed o,
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a small modifier close, works perfect.
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It drops down in value.
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It gets darker, down toward her waist,
down to her
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legs.
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And if I backed up, her legs be pretty,
almost black, dark,
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very dark.
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No light hitting it.
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And so let's Sam.
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I feel like I'm a rock star.
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And the next week, the client comes to
me and says, we want to do another shoot.
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This time we're doing swimming suits.
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So I go away.
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I got really good results in the last
shoot.
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I put my beauty dish up 24 inches from
the subject.
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I set it up, and the art director says,
no, no, the suit's tooth.
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And so I go and I say, I go, ok, i'll
back my light up.
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So I back my light up.
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Guess what happens to the overall
quality of light
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it gets harsher.
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So the architecture goes, that doesn't
look like the last shoot we did.
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I know.
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So how do I know where to determine to
put a light source that gives me the
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same quality light as a 22 inch, beauty
dish or 24 inch b?
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Do you set 24 inches,
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but spread more light?
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Well, very simple.
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I can't show you a minute visually how
it happens.
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I take a five foot or five feet,
because I know that's my rule of thumb
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right now.
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But how do they determine that?
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Well, i'll show you in a minute.
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But
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let's say, now I'm shooting.
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The next week, the client comes to me
and says, we're shooting
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shoes, Nike shoes.
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And I set my five footer up.
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And thardrey looks at me and says,
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not much light still on his shoes.
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Better than, say, 2424
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inches, 24 beauty dish.
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But
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so what's my option?
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Well, it's a seven foot or seven feet.
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So now watch this.
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I'm going to hit the silver button
right here and just show you that if I
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take my 24 inch beauty dish.
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Take my five footer.
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I usually have an assistant do this,
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and I back the light up so that when
you come toward
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the
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subject,
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I start to see the edges of the five
foot right down around the edges of the
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24 inch.
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Take my 24 inch beauty dish out, and I
snap a picture.
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It gives me the exact same quality,
because it's the same broadness of light
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to the subject.
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It's just a bigger modifier backed up.
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So once I understand that rule,
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then I can go and
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get a lighting that I like.
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Then I have to solve a problem, which
means spread more light on a subject,
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but I don't want to
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harshen or soften the light up any more
than what I have.
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My look.
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By moving the modifier, I don't have a
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modify bigger than seven feet.
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But I can put 27 footers up to make
roughly it's not fourteen, because it's
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going to be elongated.
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But 27 foots side by side will give me
fourteen across, which is really soft.
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If I backed it up, say, 1415
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plus feet back, then it'll give me the
same look as a 17 foot, seven feet, 15
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foot, or five feet, 124 inch at two
feet.
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So
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by visually seeing it, I know where to
put that light.
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And so it's actually kind of a fun.
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Now, if I take my five foot and put it
at 24 inches, it's going to be really
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soft to the subject, softer than
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my 24 inch, or two foot or two feet.
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So
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I might put my five foot at five feet,
and I take a picture, and I go, hmm,
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I want a little softer.
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The first thing I would do, probably
put a little filcard underneath, and
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that might soften enough.
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As I say.
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I go, I still want a little softer.
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I might bring that in, let's bring it
in about 24 feet.
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That's going to be a little softer.
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So I have people email me all the time
and say, I have a 28 inch beauty dish, and
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it fits my proprietary, whatever strobe
I'm using.
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I bought it from them, and I want to be
just like you, Joel,
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and I saw you hitted a twenty fourage
beauty dish at 24 inches.
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What do I do?
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I say, well, potake that 28 inch beauty
dish and back it up to 28 inches from
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your subject.
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It'll be the exact same quality on the
subject.
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It will happen to spread just a little
bit more.
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That's it just a tadmore.
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The quality light, though, will be the
same
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now.
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So, but let me show you, because if
this didn't quite line up when I did
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this, originally there's these
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what's the term when I'm doing my
PowerPoint,
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these animations,
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there's like forty animations to make
this thing happen.
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And it got kind of tweaked.
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And so
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it was supposed to happen each time I
moved this, but here's how I can pull
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it out.
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So if I take out, let's say, I'm using
my small modifier, I take it out.
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And
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that just messed up that we did not
want to do that.
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I can't back it up.
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Now.
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Well, all right, folks,
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that
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just totally screwed up.
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Now, probably why it screwed up is
because I went in there, and I used
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parts and pieces to go and build
something mouse out, and it screwed up.
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But the point I'm going to do in my
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inverse square law, I'm kind of
covering myself here, I'm going to show
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you that all
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that darkening and lighting the
background by moving your modifier.
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But it was applying it's simply here
with that last illustration.
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And I know that for years, but I just
didn't know it well enough to where I
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understood the invers square law.
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So let's look at some images.
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And I run these images
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in my other craft, but I'm going to
show you here.
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So a three foot modifier at three feet,
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gorgeous
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light on the subject.
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If I go to the
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five foot, five feet, the background
gets a little lighter.
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If I go to a seven foot or seven feet,
the background gets pure white, or
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close enough to peer white, to where I
can pull that off as being peer white.
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Especially in Photoshop, I can just
lightn it up.
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So all three side by side
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now.
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And I've explained this because I do
this a lot live.
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I did not have a black floor, because
there is that light, especially on the
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big seven photo.
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And a five foot it's bouncing up on the
floor, so it's filling in a little bit underneath
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the arms and the chin and all that.
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And so if I was to do this again, I
would put a black,
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big sweep or something down, or cloth
to block that light from coming up.
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But you can see the different values of
the background by changing the
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light
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distance.
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And so once again, i'll explain that
more in the inverse square law.
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It'd be really interesting
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if you stick with me on that.
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So here
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is the full length of that so shoes
appear black.
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Now we start to get a little detail in
the shoes.
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But if we took a seven foot, or at
seven feet, but you have all the detail
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in the shoes you want.
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And the background is almost pure
white, pretty close to be, right?
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She's about four to five feet from the
background.
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If that background was a little bit
closer, it would be even whiter.
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But
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I was shooting at ad campaign for
pistachio, and the art director, crater
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vector, whatever, came in and said he
had little sketches.
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He said, here's, we've got six
different people.
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We had a photograph.
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And the first question I ask is, do you
want the subject lit head to toe?
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Yes,
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ok.
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Turn to my assistant, seven foot, seven
feet.
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That's how simple it is.
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If the architecture said, I would like
to have a lot of it lit here, maybe
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taper down to kind of go to darker the
feet,
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five foot or five feet.
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If the archar said, I want the glow of
the face going to darkness,
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33 feet, three feet,
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two feet, two foot, to be in on.
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What modif our head of time
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it's really fun once you understand
this?
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So here's all three side by side.
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So see the value of the background
changing again that was the inverse
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square law.
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So let's talk about something that I
get emails all the time.
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And I sometimes forget to say this.
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And that is when I take an overhead
light and I snap a picture,
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once I get my exposure correct.
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So I may have to jest that a little bit
and get my exposure correct.
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The first thing I looked at is the
length of the shadow from the nose to
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the lip.
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So
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nobody taught me this,
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and there's a lot of things I think
that we eventually, universally will
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say that looks better than that.
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Some people may say, disagree with you,
but you don't want the shadow generally
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of the nose to hit the lip.
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So it's going to fall short of
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above the lip and closer to the nose
generally.
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And then how sharp that is depends on
how close your light is, or how big
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your modifier is.
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to get a longer shadow.
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So you say,
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it's
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filled in too much.
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I want a lummer shadow.
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You just raise your light up,
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and then you go snap a few pictures
until you get the shadow.
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I just Crick if you say, oh, too much
shadow.
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Lower your light.
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Now there's a point with your lower
light.
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And this is important to understand
folks, because I had to solve this
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problem.
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I had my say, 24th, beauty dish, and I
bring it down, bring it down, bring
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down.
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And I'm like, oh, this like depends on
the model, but she was like, really
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deep eye sockets, and it's still
beautiful.
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But I was looking at her going, wow,
wyat.
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And I had a filc, it still wasn't
working right.
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So I was like, I can't get the light
any lower.
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My camera lens now is starting to show
up in my frame.
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And I had my 24 years beauty dishonor,
and I was like, oh, man, what do I do?
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Five foot, five feet.
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So I took a five or five feet, and it
was just behind my head,
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and I could get lower.
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And then I lowered it, even though the
camera is in front.
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I lowered until the light came around
and filled in.
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And I could do a seven foot or seven
feet, with which it would be a lot
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further back behind me, depending on
what lens I was using.
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So I can solve that by lowering my
light, or raising my light to get the
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shadows on the subject.
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So look at your shadows and
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you'll find out whether or not you need
to go up or down,
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all right?
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So here we have Jennifer,
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and I want to show you, look at the
shadow underneath her chip.
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that's pretty distinct, pretty sharp.
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And the reason why is I have a five
foot octo.
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Actually it's a zeppelin, so I
misprinted that, or miss did that, but
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it's the same size, five foot, modified,
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and it's about twelve feet back.
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And I'm standing in front of it, and
it's going just above my head, down to
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the subject.
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She's on a white suite.
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And bam, look at the shadow under her
chin.
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Now that's still a pretty big modifier.
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I'd get it sharper.
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If I had a two foot modifier
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at twelve feet would be really sharp.
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A bare head at two feet, an eight inch
modifier would be really sharp.
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But that, to me, was a really good.
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And I was explaining this to a
workshop, how I can get that shadow of
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exactly the value of want.
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That light's now spreading lots of
light.
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I did.
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I did a couple where she was full
linked, too, so she's lit head to toe.
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It's a really easy scenario, straight
over the camera.
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look at her skin.
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Looks incredible.
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And I don't think I did hardly any
retouching on this.
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It's just super
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it's for beauty fashion or
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high key fashion, whatever.
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It's really simple lighting to do.
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So here's
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Bryce with a 22 inch, beauty dish at 22
inches.
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And
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so just gorgeous light on her.
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I was in a wedge wall, and that's
hitting a little bit of light on the
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sides.
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There
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here's a five foot at two feet.
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So I'm taking a five footer and going
closer, closer, closer, closer.
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I got it.
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Maybe it was two and a half feet, I
don't know, but
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it was as close as I could get it.
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And then I could shoot underneath.
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And actually the modifier's touching my
camera, and coming around is kind of up
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underneath it, a little bit there.
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But look how soft that light is on her.
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Beautiful.
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It's easy.
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Of course, you have to have a five foot
modifier, but you can do this with an
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umbrella too,
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especially
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with a diffusion on the front.
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So the revelation is how
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broad your light is to your subject is
in the shadows.
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So if you look at an image
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and you say, Joel here's an image, what
you think, and I look at, I go, really
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sharp shadows.
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That means someone has a modifier.
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I don't know the exact size, because it
depends.
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Now I may say, if, say, it's lip head
to toe, evenly, I go, that's a
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probably a 24 inch beauty dish at ten
feet.
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I get bitshaggy pretty close
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because it's so far back, I know,
spread a lot.
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So you can look at the shadows and tell
you roughly,
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kind of what
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modifier in kind of what distance, by
how it spread.
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So
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look at the shadows.
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The shadow tells you, it's like the
tail of the tape, tape is in the shadows.
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And that reveals something
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about your modifier in the distance
that it is.
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So here is an eight inch standard hood
on what comes with your camera,
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or.
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So you're strobe,
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and it's about fifteen feet away.
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So
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I do a simulated strobe about 25 feet
away.
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It's a little closer, which is going to
be a little softer.
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But I got a big piece of foam core on
that side.
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I think I showed this to you guys on
the intro, just talking about this
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image.
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So, bouncing light back into it, which
softens it down.
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Remember, there's my second number
rule, as you could soften the light by
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bouncing more light into it.
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So here's a seven footer at about four
feet from the subject.
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I guess, a white wall so, because it's
such a big modifier and so close, it's ultra.
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I could make a lot of money with this
light.
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It makes a model look so incredible.
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Now that white also bounces back in.
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So that's an ultrasoft
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scenario there.
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So,
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incredible.
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Here's an eight inch standard hood at
28 feet.
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That's about where I try to simulate
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the
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sun.
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Look at the house.
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Sharp the shadow is.
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That tells me how far it is.
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And because it spreads so much light, I
know it's a small modifier way back.
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So
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all right, let's do this.
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We're going to take another break,
because I don't want to wear you guys
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out.
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You can take a break.
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And I'm going to go, and we're going to
talk about crosslight, the Rembrandt
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lighting, which is,
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I did a whole session, call it the most
beautiful light on the planet.
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It is absolutely incredible.
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You have to know this to make a living
at photography.
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you probably have seen a lot of
pictures with this.
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So you're like, how do they do that?
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Well,
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I'm going to show you.
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So let's take a break.
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