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Lighting from above

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Lighting from above

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- [Instructor] In this movie, we're going to talk about how to position your lights on the y-axis, that is, vertically, in order to light the scene from above, which is essential if you want to get natural-looking shadows, because after all, we're used to seeing shadows underneath our foreground subjects, not directly behind or above them. And so, we're going to start off with that simplified scene, with the soft corals lit by our strobes, and everything in the background lit by ambient sunlight. And now we're going to introduce our camera, but this time we're looking at a rear view, and we're shooting the image horizontally. So we have a landscape orientation, which is why I decided to go ahead and throw these labels in once again, so you can see that our strobes are up there at the top, we have fibre optic cables that are connecting our onboard flash, so that the camera can tell the strobes when to fire, and then on either side of what I've drawn, is a translucent housing. We have…

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