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Lighting

Lighting - GoPro HERO Tutorial

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Lighting

We're working with outdoor available lighting, so it's a bit difficult to get perfect lighting on your subject, things are going to change, but that's okay, that's sort of the style of what we're working with. And that reality feel is very acceptable with the Go Pro, now what we're going to do here is position the light so it's at your back. That means it's going to be hitting your subject's face, so lights coming from over there. We've got it positioned, remember you can use something like a sun path calculator or an app, if you're not sure where the lights going to be when you're location scouting. But this works pretty well. We also have a reflector here, and this particular reflector is going to give you both silver and gold. The silver is going to allow you to balance the light onto your subject and it will go ahead and just brighten them up. The gold side is going to actually warm things a little bit when we point it at our subject, and that's going to allow us to balance the…

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