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Bouncing light onto the subject

Bouncing light onto the subject

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Bouncing light onto the subject

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- Alright, so we showed you what it looks like to have the sun in front of talent, and we used the six by six diffusion to use it as a key, so it's soft as a light. Now in this example we're going to show you what it's like to have the sun behind talent. Now as you can see the sun is really, really popping on his shoulders and the top of his hair. And his face, well, it's not very illuminated. Now I'm looking over here at a monitor so that I can know exactly what the effects is when we bring in all of these different tools, okay? So guys, let's go ahead and bring it down and let's make it softer so the background is not so hot. Look at that, right there, that looks great. Now we have very soft light here on Lucas and we're getting a little bit of light that's wrapping around him. It's hard to believe it does it, but it does it, it works. Now the next thing we're going to see is what it's like to have some fill on his face because we need it. So Tito, let's go ahead and grab some white…

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