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Applying concepts: Scenario three

Applying concepts: Scenario three

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Applying concepts: Scenario three

For our second shoot, we've just moved over a little bit from the scene featuring the industrial tubing to kind of an urban outdoor setting that we've created, and what I have in mind for this is to put some dramatic lights into the room behind the model and then also then light her with a normal exposure and try to emulate a street light coming down from overhead. So the objective is again to get a normal exposure on the model, create some drama in the background and then ideally create kind of a little bit of an accent light with this overhead street lamp. So here we go. Okay, Savannah, you can just hang out on that mark. I'm just going to take an exposure to see what the overall lighting looks like. The light on you is perfect, but we've got a big hotspot on the left-hand side of the frame. So, Lauren, I still want to shoot at f/8, because she is going to be moving through that frame so I need the depth of field. So when I had the flash 11 feet from the model, I got this pretty…

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