All language subtitles for Look No.7 - Sunkissed - Reflections Academy

And for the end, my favorite cheat setup,

the sun-kissed look.

And that sun-kissed look we can get

even on the most overcast days.

What's the catch?

Well, if you put the flash outside and

pop it through the window to the inside

of the room, it's sunny again.

I mean, that's exactly how they make movies

and TV commercials.

They would just bring strong lights and point

them from the outside so that they could

control the amount of sun and the duration

of it.

You know, when you get these beautiful rays

of light, but then they disappear only after

a few minutes.

Well, not anymore, because now you can create

your own with flash.

The curtains and window lines, those little lines

on the windows, will actually make the light

a bit more natural, and it will look

like there was a real sun out there.

Or if you're just shooting some details or

stationary, you don't even need to take the

flash out to make it look good.

Just in any case, don't get the flash

too strong, as it may take over the

rest of the ambient light, and then it

will just be too obviously lit with the

flash.

Instead, as with most other setups, first expose

for the room light, and then add flash

on top.

This will make it look like naturally sunny,

and the colors and shapes will pop beautifully.

For this technique, I usually set the flash

in manual mode, so that I can have

complete control and assure consistency for all my

shots.

On my Profoto A10, this means the flash

is around 60 or 70% of the

power, but naturally this depends on many factors,

so I would advise you again to start

with lower flash power, and then raise it

until you see what looks like sun in

the photo.

For this kind of a look, I may

even open the aperture wide again, like in

the bounce flash technique, to 2.8 or

something like that, to mimic this natural light,

and I would keep my shutter around one

hundredth of a second.

ISO, of course, depends on the amount of

the available light, but if you just keep

it simple, and set the exposure for the

room, like you normally would for shooting in

natural light, and then keep the shutter speed

below 200, ideally around 100, and then add

the flash through the window in manual mode,

you will get probably 9 out of 10.

In 9 out of 10 cases, you will

get it right from the beginning.

And for even more sunny look, straight out

of the camera, I would sometimes shift my

white balance to a warmer setting, to over

6,000 kelvins, to get that warm morning

sun effect.

I know that you can always do this

in post, but personally, I like to see

the result as close to the final as

possible in the camera.

And that's the very last of my 7

looks with the flash.

I know not everyone is going to use

every one of these looks at each wedding

they shoot, but that's why there are 7

of them, so that you can pick the

one you like mostly, and utilize it when

you need them in your work.

But even more importantly, I hope, if not

after the first watch, then maybe after the

second, you will gain enough knowledge through this

course, to be able to think about creating

your own looks, and building your own ideas

on how to use flash creatively.

There are a few more words I would

like to share with you after all these

lessons, so I invite you to check out

the outro lesson before we can officially say

it's a wrap.