Video: Using Reflector to Light Photo Shoot

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Learn about tungsten lighting for a model, substituting the fill light with a reflector with expert photography tips from a professional photographer in this free online photography instructional video clip.

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We're moving on to another segment. We've already discussed our key lighting and our fill lighting, but suppose we only have two lights and we want to use this fill light for some other placement here around our model. So, what I'm going to show you now is we can kill this fill light. Get rid of it here. We'll achieve exactly the same effect that we did with that fill light, but this time we're going to use reflectors. Now we go back to our original key light on Nicole. We've got that little triangle happening under the eye. Now what we're going to do this time and get the same effect is we're going to bring in the reflector here and move it in nice and close and you can see what's happening here. We haven't lost that shadow completely, but we've definitely softened it. Okay, we've moved in a little bit closer. What you're looking at now is Nicole without any reflector light, without any fill light. See what happens as I start to bring in, it becomes really noticeable as we bring it in the side. You can see how it's softening all the shadows in here. We still have that little triangle of light here. We've got our beautiful lighting on this side and all of a sudden it's becoming a lot more like a really attractive portrait. Not quite the fashion shot that we're going for in the next episode, but definitely a lot nicer. This is another thing that you can do. I promise you can save a little bit of money. This is just white card. You can get it at any art store and it has exactly the same effect. Now, what you can do is you can take a light stand, bring it in closer and clamp it to the light stand so you don't really need somebody off to the side holding it, but this will do the same thing as a silver reflector and it will do the same thing as your fill light. Now, we've freed up one light to use elsewhere on our subject.

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Using Reflector to Light Photo Shoot

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