From the course: Photography Foundations: Macro and Close-Up
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Continuous lighting to add fill to a macro shot - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photography Foundations: Macro and Close-Up
Continuous lighting to add fill to a macro shot
Macro lighting is a little bit different from lighting at normal scale, because when you're dealing with such small subjects, it's really easy to flood the area with light. That said, macro subjects often need a little lighting boost to bring out details around edges, to show more texture, to reveal more contour. And, that's true with lighting in the real world. It's just you got to be careful about how much light you throw into a scene. That's why, very often, just natural light and a reflector is a really good way to go, because it's a a light easy to control (amount of light). That said, I'm ready to try something else with this image. I've done a couple of things here. I pulled that leaf out of the way that was bothering me. Did the same thing you saw in last movie. I just pulled it back, and twist tied it around. I've bolted my flower down a little bit more sturdy, because I kept bumping it, and it was moving around. As I look at the image -- let me just shoot one real quick…
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Working with direct light6m 13s
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Macro and the angle of light2m 24s
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Augmenting direct light with reflectors6m 42s
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Continuous lighting to add fill to a macro shot5m 55s
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Lighting your macro scene with continuous light4m 50s
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Lighting the macro scene with strobes4m 59s
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Setting up a macro-specific flash unit3m 21s
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Shooting with the Canon Macro Twin Lite7m 56s
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Shooting macro in a light tent3m 31s
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Shooting macro on a light table7m 8s
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