Megan with Paws and Claws photography, the next topic that I wanna touch on is lighting. If you
are shooting outdoors, you want to remember that the light changes as the time of day changes.
The sun gets higher and lower in the sky, affecting the direction in which shadows fall. If the day
is sunny, many photographers prefer to work in early morning or late afternoon. On over cast
days the lighting is perfect, because the light illuminates all parts of the scene. Because I cannot
control the lighting outside, I used portable flashes that run off of batteries. When the main flash
goes off, it triggers the other flashes to go off as well. For example, this are called SP800, they
ran off of batteries, there’s absolutely no cords or anything like that, so, it gives me tons of
flexibility. I can take them anywhere, and I also, like I was saying, the main flash triggers the
littler flashes to go off, for example. Now, this allows me to shoot in any kind of situations, when
shooting indoors, I used a main light, fill light, and a hair light. But remember, regardless if
shooting indoors or outdoors, you want your main light, or the sun, to be at a 45 degree angle to
the direction of your pet. The fill light is positioned as close to the camera as possible at about
the height of the camera. And the hair light is aimed at the top of your pet’s head, slightly back.
If you set all your lights up, or if you’re outside and the sun is still causing shadows on your pet,
you can use an umbrella such as this one that I have here. You can, the umbrella is very easy to
use, you can attach it to your main light and you can either shoot through the umbrella or have
the light bounce off of your umbrella. The umbrella tends to diffuse light and make things softer
on your subject. You can also use, in situations, if you need more light or less light, you can use
a reflector that I have here. It’s a portable reflector, if you’re outside and you’re still having
trouble, you can use the gold side, the gold side tends to make things a little bit sunnier, so
people like to use this on over cast days, when you want your subject to, the light on your subject
to be a little bit brighter and make things looks sunnier. Or, if it’s too sunny and, you know, and
you just getting way too many shadows, you can definitely use the silver side and the silver side
calms things down a little bit. It gives you a more cooler look, a lot of people like to do this on
very hot sunny days when you’re getting a lot of reflection. For example, by the pool, you would
definitely use the cooler side to cool things down some. Or, if you still having problems or if you
have that perfect scene and you can't get, you know, the sun is right in the, your pet’s eyes, you
can definitely block the sun with this, this is a reflector that actually blocks the light, for an
example it blocks all types of light and it gives you the ability to look right into the camera
whereas before, it’s a little bit brighter on you. So definitely, you know, you can use any type of
those things, they work great.
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