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A portrait of Amy, one of our models at the recent workshop in Brighton, UK.\u00a0 Here we used a single video<\/strong><\/a> light on her.<\/p>\n I love the dramatic quality the light imparts, and how you can flag the light with the barn-doors to create a specific fall-off to the light in the background.\u00a0 The strong vignetting helps in giving it that dramatic look.<\/p>\n In figuring out the direction of light, and how to place the video lighting, I am largely guided by way the shadow of the subject’s nose is falling across her face.\u00a0 I then direct the model and the person who holds the light, to move slightly if needed.\u00a0 I usually don’t want the nose to cast a shadow across the cheek that blends into the other shadow areas.<\/p>\n As you can see from the shadow of her nose, the video light was to the camera left.\u00a0 In looking at this photo now in editing it, I think it might have been improved if the video light had moved slightly more to the camera’s point of view, so that the shadow of her nose is even less obvious.\u00a0 Then the way the left side of her face is shaded would’ve been\u00a0less steep\u00a0as well.<\/p>\n It’s in this analysis afterward of a photograph\u00a0that we learn how to improve the lighting and composition and posing for the next time!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A portrait of Amy, one of our models at the recent workshop in Brighton, UK.\u00a0 Here we used a single video light on her. I love the dramatic quality the light imparts, and how you can flag the light with the barn-doors to create a specific fall-off to the light in the background.\u00a0 The strong Read more inside…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30469,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[22,24,1,44],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[1552,1140,5637,3560,1141,2821],"class_list":{"0":"post-1318","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lighting","8":"category-models","9":"category-uncategorized","10":"category-video-light","11":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1318"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1318"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40545,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1318\/revisions\/40545"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1318"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=1318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}