{"id":11290,"date":"2012-07-20T10:46:14","date_gmt":"2012-07-20T14:46:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/?p=11290"},"modified":"2017-08-11T19:10:18","modified_gmt":"2017-08-11T23:10:18","slug":"photography-with-video-light-and-daylight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/photography-with-video-light-and-daylight\/","title":{"rendered":"Photography with video light and daylight"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Photography with video light and daylight<\/h1>\n

With the recent lighting workshop in New York, we again played with the use of video light … and then took it out to the street. The blue-ish tones of the shady side of the building here, contrasted beautifully with the warm glow of the video light.<\/p>\n

As with the article,\u00a0gelling your flash to get a blue background<\/a>, this is something that can work very well when we use light sources with different color balance, thereby attaining those complementary colors.\u00a0The rapid fall-off in light also helped give the photograph a dramatic quality.<\/p>\n

The photo above is a crop of the actual image which is also a pull-back shot then to show where the light was positioned:<\/p>\n


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Turning into another direction, we had the early evening city as a backdrop. Using a long telephoto zoom helped isolate Anelisa against these out-of-focus colors.<\/p>\n

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The technique here was to choose a background which wasn’t much brighter than we’d be able to get from the video-light … and then bring up the exposure on her with the video light. It really is the same technique we use with flash – expose for the background, and then lift the exposure for your subject with flash … or, as in this case, a video light.<\/p>\n

I used Imagenomic Portraiture and Nik Color Efex 4 filters here to retouch the photograph<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Camera settings and photo gear (or equivalents) used during this photo session<\/h2>\n