Here's What YOU Need to Know about Lighting Your Photos!

Описание: Want to understand light and photography? This short video will give you a quick and simple explanations about how light and photography are married. Good lighting is key in any great photograph.

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Video Transcript:
Here's What YOU Need to Know about Lighting Your Photos!

Hi! I don't know a lot of things but I know light! Hi I'm Tim Roller with Tim Roller Photography. Thank you so much for tuning in to my YouTube channel. Today we're gonna talk about the most
important thing in photography and that is light! The rule is the bigger the light, the closer the light, the softer the light. The smaller the light, the further light away from you, the harder the light.
Well, what does that mean? If you think about if I turn this light bulb on right now, it would blind me and blind everybody in this room, that's why we have lampshades. So it dulls down the light and diffuses it so it will go throughout the room and you can actually see something and you're not just blinded by some crappy light bulb hanging like this or sitting like this.

So we have all kinds of things that we can use to turn this hard light into a big, soft light. If you look behind me right here, this big octa. That's a great, that's a light that goes through two diffusers and turns a little bitty light bulb into a great big light. And we put that great big light really really close to the to our model or our subject and that big light makes it very soft. If you're up to 20 years old soft lights, hard lights, you know your skin's going to be pretty perfect but if the second you have any kind of wrinkles at all, the older you get, you want to make sure you get soft light because this light will wrap around you. It won't show your wrinkles as much. Hard light is gonna show your wrinkles. You're gonna squint, you're gonna, it's just gonna be bad so stay out of hard, small light, always remember that!

This is a diffuser, this is my official Joe McNally anybody wants to know who the greatest photographer in
the world? His name is Joe McNally, you can buy these, don't buy a Joe McNally one, sorry Joe. This one was really expensive. You can get it for 10 bucks, 15 bucks from B&H photo. You go out and you hold this between the sun and your subject or the sun and yourself and you're gonna hold up the your phone you're gonna take a selfie you're gonna have beautiful light because the sun is gonna hit this and illuminate this whole thing and all of a sudden the sun as big as a pinhead became this big light and it's gonna be beautiful, it's gonna be just beautiful. You can see right there see how I pull it away a little bit it gets bigger and softer you go outside like right now if I go outside I know it's cloudy. What happened? The clouds are diffusing the sun so we have one of the biggest softbox in the world which is literally the sky covered with clouds, so you have this wonderful diffusion. Then when you get outside, if the sun is coming down, it's nice and diffuse if you just kick a little light you just get one of these guys put it under their chin the light will bounce up and hit their chin it'll be a little softer and then yeah and then you got
this big soft light coming on. If you got this, if you have the sun a good thing to do is put the sun behind them get them in shade and then just bounce a little bit of light into their face the sun's gonna come out hit go in their face it's gonna look beautiful. So there's all kinds of stuff you can do and you don't
have to spend a lot of money. I'm gonna take a picture, okay ready? But what, what did I do? I threw a very very small light at my subject and that is not a good thing to do. It's not good to throw this little
bitty light to someone so let's think about what is the biggest source of light in the whole room? I don't know, how about the ceiling? So if I point this up like this, I put this little flag right there, and I take a picture, the entire ceiling just became a light source. I'd bounce the light off the ceiling and it
came down and it just kind of flowed down. If I bounce a light of a white wall, I'm gonna take this light I'm gonna put it like that I'm going to bounce it up against this wall I would take a picture of my imaginary subject the light bounced off that wall and lit them. That wall became my light source.

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