From the course: Learning to Shoot with Strobes
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Bouncing the light with a reflector or a bounce card
From the course: Learning to Shoot with Strobes
Bouncing the light with a reflector or a bounce card
- Often when you start out working with strobes, you may only have a single strobe to work with and no additional modifiers. Here, I'm going to show you how you can use a single strobe light and a reflector or some foam core to fill in some shadows. Now I've already taken a picture of Stacey with this single light, without a modifier. And as you can see, there's a lot of nice light on the right side of her face but I have a lot of shadow on the left side. And I'm going to use a piece of foam core, which you can get at any art supply store, to use as a bit of a reflector to see if I can bring the light up on left side of her face. So I'm going to just take a shot here. And it's helped a little bit. But Ian, you can actually step in closer and hold it a little bit more vertical. And let's take a look and see if we can get rid of some of those shadows. So as you can see, that made a huge difference. And this is a very…
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