{"id":57957,"date":"2014-02-05T20:43:20","date_gmt":"2014-02-05T20:43:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/howcast.com\/videos\/516155-quick-easy-event-lighting-photography-tutorial\/"},"modified":"2014-02-05T20:43:20","modified_gmt":"2014-02-05T20:43:20","slug":"516155-quick-easy-event-lighting-photography-tutorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/howcast.com\/videos\/516155-quick-easy-event-lighting-photography-tutorial\/","title":{"rendered":"Quick &#038; Easy Event Lighting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Quick &amp; Easy Event Lighting | Photography Tutorial\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XQ0AmTOPelI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3>Transcript<\/h3>\n<p>When shading an event, it\u2019s really important that we do light the people we\u2019re photographing correctly. While most cameras these days come with a flash, you\u2019ve got to keep in mind that the in-built flash on your camera has a range of maybe four to five feet. It\u2019s not really going to power the lighting for your subjects correctly. Using a speed light, or an external flash, which we can clip on to our camera, allows us to get a lot easier lighting of our image. <\/p>\n<p> It\u2019s important, though, not to fire the flash directly at the subject, you\u2019re going to get very, very, harsh light and it\u2019s going to contrast horribly, very bright subject, very dark background. I like to do two things, take my ISL up to about 800 for the purposes of the photograph, and I want to redirect my flash. If I have an assistant shooting with me, I\u2019ll use something like a reflector. These are very, very simple, and allow me to direct the flash directly on to my subject for a softer light. Quite often though, I\u2019m not going to have an assistant with me when photographing an event. <\/p>\n<p> You can direct that flash off the ceiling, you can direct that flash off another wall,or you can even direct it off your own shirt, assuming you\u2019re wearing a white shirt, not a clack one. Like I said, it is very important that you don\u2019t direct the light directly at the subject, especially with something like a wedding where the bride\u2019s wearing white. Most wedding dresses have a lot of detail, and firing the flash directly on to a wedding dress is going to blow it out and lose all the detail. With very, very, very simple technique, and redirecting your light, you\u2019re sure to get fantastic light at the next event you photograph.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Transcript When shading an event, it\u2019s really important that we do light the people we\u2019re photographing correctly. While most cameras these days come with a flash, you\u2019ve got to keep in mind that the in-built flash on your camera has a range of maybe four to five feet. It\u2019s not really going to power the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1367,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"mai_trending":0,"mai_views":0,"mai_views_updated":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30,63],"tags":[],"class_list":{"2":"type-post","7":"category-12-arts","8":"category-1478-how-to-take-better-photos","9":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/howcast.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/howcast.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/howcast.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/howcast.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/howcast.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/howcast.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57957\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/howcast.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/howcast.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/howcast.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/howcast.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}