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Whether you're new to lighting or have been doing it for 20+ years, everyone started in the same place and everyone has made a lot of mistakes. So if you're just starting out and you're doing any of the things that I'm going to talk about, I'm not mentioning these things to make you feel bad and I made all of these mistakes and sometimes I still make them.
1. Raccoon eyes
One of the most common mistakes you can make is placing your light too high. As a result, you won't see any illumination on the tops of your subject's eyelids and if you are very high up, you won't see any illumination on their eyes. Lowering the light slightly will really bring your images to life, but make sure you don't go so low that the light hits the underside of your subject's nose.
2. Grab the lights
Once you've dimmed your light enough to see the lighting on the tops of your subject's eyelids, you also want to make sure you see some captivating lights in their eyes. Simply put, captured flights are reflections of your light. If you don't see them, just dim the light slightly until they appear, as almost any image can benefit from a little glow.
3. No filler
Often people take a single flash and set it aside, which creates a lot of shadows that turn jet black and there is absolutely no detail. So what you want to do is use what's called fill to fill in the shadows.
4. Use of continuous green tinted lights
Beginners always like to use continuous lights because they are often quite affordable. But continuous lighting kits often found online use either compact fluorescent bulbs or inexpensive LED bulbs, like the bulbs you would use in your home. The problem is that these bulbs can have a green or magenta bias, which will cause your skin to appear wrong in color.
5. You are too flat
Normally the first light used is a camera-mounted flash. You can point it directly at your subject, but if you do, you'll get very, very ugly light. That's why it's much more common for people to bounce it off a white ceiling. The only problem with this type of lighting is that often the light doesn't really have a direction or shape and you just do the job. If you can move the flash a few feet to the left or right of your camera, either using wireless technology or a stiff cable, before bouncing it, you will significantly improve your results.
6. You have to bounce off something
I see this one every time I go to a graduation. Someone in a giant room or outside has their flash point bounced towards a distant black ceiling or towards the sky. To bounce light, you need to have a nearby surface that reflects the light.
7. Too close to a white background
Most photographers shot against a lit white background and most beginners had a problem where their images looked really blurry because the background was too bright. If this happens, you should reduce the brightness of your background lights so that the background is only slightly brighter than your subjects.
8. No separation
Once the person lights their subject, the background of the saved photo may be the same color or brightness as their hair or clothing, and what happens is the subject blends into the background. 'background. So there are several ways to solve this problem. You can move the subject closer to the background, which will make the background brighter. You can move the subject away from the background, which will make the background darker.
9. Red wall
A common problem that everyone encounters when shooting on location is color cast from objects or walls, called color contamination. You want to make sure that where you position your subject is not adjacent to, say, an orange accent wall, because your shadows might be orange. And you also want to make sure that if you're trying to get a white background, there's not a brown ground in front of it that would throw the yellow light back into the photo. This is part of the reason you'll often see a white background swept under and in front of the subject.
10. Subtly
Good lighting is largely about subtlety. You don't have to show off your work with the force of a hammer all the time.
Chapters
00:00 Presentation
00:57 Raccoon eyes
00:29 Catching the lights
01:56 No filling
02:36 Using continuous green-tinted lights
03:20 You are too flat
03:59 You have to bounce off something
04:40 Too close to a white background
05:13 Red wall
07:00 No separation
08:07 Subtly
08:44 Conclusion
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