From the course: Advanced Photography: Flash
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Falloff, part 2
- In the last movie, we looked at an illustration of light falloff and it was very obvious that light falls off very, very quickly after it leaves a light source. What's not so obvious sometimes is what that means about where you need to position lights to get the affect that you want. We're going to look at an example of that right now. I have Andrew sitting here. I want to take a portrait of him. Just a simple one-light portrait. I've got a light over here with a big soft box on it so I'm going to be casting some of his face into hard shadow. Andrew's got this great bone structure that's going to look cool with some hard shadows on him. So I have here a light meter. We're not going to go into this in detail right now because we got a whole movie on how to use it, but I just want to - What the light meter does is tell me what aperture I need to use on my camera. It measures the brightness. I just want to make sure that the light is doing what I think it is. It is. So I set my camera…
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