Using Reflector in Photography

Video Transcript

" Hi! I'm Joey Gunz. You can check me out on line at www.joeygunz.com. Now I am happy to be at Expert Village to bring to you part 13 of our 16 part series about improving your photography. Now knowledge is free. You just have to know where to look to find the information but today right here at Expert Village, we are going to talk to you about a simple way that you can modify or bounce light onto your subject. It is pretty relatively inexpensive compared to some of the other studio equipment you might want to invest in. The object that I am talking about is called a reflector or bounce. Now these things come in 2 types. If you look here on the front of this reflector, you've got a removable reflector that is attached to the front of this mono light. This will actually reflect light and narrow it down into a semi-focusable kind of a beam but it pretty much just mounts on to the front of that light and it pretty much angles and projects that light into a particular direction. You've got this reflector service on the inside hence the name reflector. This other reflector that I am holding is a multi-functional reflector. One side has got kind of a metallic foil looking kind of cover and on the back side its got a black. This black is used to flag or absorb light and this metallic side is used to reflect light. How might we use this thing you ask. Let's say for example you are on set and you've got a key light or a main light and you need some film. Let's give you an example of how that would look by killing 1, 2 this fill light over here. Now we've my handy dandy reflector, I can take this reflector and put it outside of camera range, maybe and if you look right on the side of my face on my shirt, you will see how that light is reflecting back up 1, 2 me, your subject. That's my second close up; it's in the contract but you see how that light is reflecting and filling so you can actually use a reflector and a light stand or something to kind of mold and shape that light to create shadows and highlights which leads to color, leads to depth, leads to saturation, all those things to help make a great image. Well, that’s part 13 of our 16 part series. The reflector. Let’s go ahead and bring that light back up. And, I’m Joey Gunz signing off to you. Be sure and check me out online at www.joeygunz.com. For Expert Village, wishing you ado. See you next time."