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Change and replicate natural light

Change and replicate natural light

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Change and replicate natural light

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- I'm from Seattle where we have consistent light year-round. Three months of bright sunshine, and nine months of black/gray. It's a challenge to get the beautiful sunlight streaming through the window in December. But with a little bit of light know how you can create that dazzling sunshine. Put your main light outside the window. Adjust your light, flash, or reflector to fill the subject, and wallah, you have a sunny day. Remember the photographs we took in the last movie of Margo near a sun lit window? Look how they compare to photographs taken of her when using our artificial sunlight setup. Or maybe you want to recreate the natural light of a lamp. Most bulbs are pretty dim in our cameras. You can increase your ISO risking a little bit of noise, or replace the bulbs with brighter ones for the duration of the shoot. I often use Enslave Flash in lamps. I love this equipment. It's a flash with a sensor that is…

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