A Photography Lighting Tutorial

Video Transcript

"Hi, I'm Rebecca Guenther with m5a1photography.com and I'm here to give you a photography lighting tutorial. When it comes to photography lighting, there's obviously lots of different kinds of light you can use. You can use daylight for which you'll probably only need a bounce to reflex the light back to you. There's whatever ambient light happens to be for which you only need to be mindful of the shadows that it might cause or the color shift between two different kinds of ambient light and strobes. Now, strobes are probably what you're going to want to use in most cases if you can get your hands on them because they are the easiest to control how much light, how bright the light, where the light is you know etcetera, etcetera and you can put them wherever you want to create whatever kind of look you want. So, what you're going to do once you have your hand on a couple of strobes is you're generally going to want to have a two to three light setup. You're going to have a main light which you probably want to have soft some sort of soft box on it to defuse the light so there aren't any harsh shadows. You're going to have a fill light to fill the other side of whatever your subject is and then possibly if you're photographing a person or if you just want the feel of a back light, you want a hair light or something like that. It doesn't need to be particularly bright or maybe you have a light on the background. So you're going to have your strobe and you put in an umbrella in there to have it bounce back or a soft box on the front of it so that it shoots through and spreads it out or if it's a hair light, you'll have strip or if it's just the background light, you'll just shine this on the background and that's just a quick tutorial on photography lighting."