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Lighting and shooting in shade

Lighting and shooting in shade

From the course: Video Lighting: Outdoor Techniques

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Lighting and shooting in shade

- All right, I'm in the worst possible lighting you could ever see, but that's okay, we're going to fix this. I want to show you something here. Maybe you don't have your four by four or your six by six or your 24 by 36 diffusion, to put overhead. Well, we can fix this, but hey, shame on you, you got to have this stuff. You're going to make your talent look great, right? That's the key, here. So, what do we have, well we have Mother Nature. We have this giant tree behind us, and we have some really nice patches of shade. Now what you want to do is you want to find where those patches aren't have any holes of light. You want to find a nice, solid piece. And right here Lucas is in a great position. He's got no shade hitting him right now, he's got all shade hitting him right now, he has no sun hitting him. And that's super important, 'cause we don't want to have little blotches of sunlight on him while he's on camera. We want to make him look great. But this looks pretty good, but we…

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