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Controlling the source lighting

Controlling the source lighting

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Controlling the source lighting

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- So whenever we are shooting with a moving light source, AKA the sun, it moves. All right? And so you kind of got to keep up with it. So, what has happened is even though we originally sat Valencia in the shade and we didn't have any problems with speckled light on her face. If we look now, we can see that the sun has moved and, the shadows, there are now areas of hotspot on her face. So on a cloudy day, this wouldn't be a problem at all, because the sun is diffused from the clouds. So if you don't have shade, or you only have partial shade, but you still need to get rid of hot spots, you step into the sun here. What you can do, is you can use the internal baffle, of a reflector, as, a cloud. Okay? So that's going to give you really, really nice light, and it's going to soften your light source, so that you don't have problems with hotspots. So that's what I'm going to put on the second, stand over here. And then I'm just going to go ahead and move this, over Valencia, so that we…

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