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Creative lighting

Creative lighting - Photoshop Tutorial

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Creative lighting

- [Host] Now we'll take a look at the forth style of lighting, where underwater macro photography is concerned. And that's creative lighting. Which is a little more advanced, but allows you to achieve some fantastic results. And the advantage here is that you can really focus the viewers attention. - [Man] So, the first thing we're going to talk about is what we call light shaping devices. Now, what these are, are these are actually implements that attach to your strobe, and they're going to modify or change the shape of the light. So, the most common light shaping device that you see is a snoot. And what that's really doing is it's concentrating the beam of light to a smaller circle. And what you do, is you attach the snoot, or any other light shaping device, onto the front of your strobe, and that's going to modify they size and shape of the beam. - [Host] And in this case, are you working with just one strobe? - [Man] In general, when you're snooting, you want to stick to just one…

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