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Mimicing Sunlight
I am curious as to how other shooters try to mimic the sun when using strobes. Sep 27 07 01:26 pm Link nic color effect pro sunlight filter Sep 27 07 02:32 pm Link gels, maybe gold umbrella's and reflectors? Sep 27 07 02:42 pm Link Straight flash. No modifiers. Maybe a gel for evening light. Sep 27 07 02:55 pm Link I just color balance the strobe to be a bit warmer..unless I want the cool effect. I also like to overpower the sun for a cool dark background. In the first example I use diffusers, in the latter I don't. Also may switch from strobe to a reflector. Silver for the latter effect and gold for the former. Sep 27 07 02:59 pm Link To mimic it, you need to understand it. Spend some time watching how sunlight looks, changes, and behaves. It's a lot easier once you have a good base to draw from. Sep 27 07 03:01 pm Link Play around with your camera and flash. Set your camera to Tungsten or a cool temperature. Add an orange or warm gel filter. It can help create the "golden hours" effect of sunsets. Here's one I did:  Sep 27 07 03:02 pm Link sorry, i meant add the orange or warm gel filter to the FLASH, not lens. Sep 27 07 03:03 pm Link http://www.plasticmagonline.com/misc/mva_beach1 that was all faked, the sun was behind them most of the day, Stephen was doing it for a video on lighting outdoors. It was a ringflash on a few, a beautydish on a few and a large octabank on a few as a main Photographer Stephen Eastwood at www.stepheneastwood.com G Sep 27 07 03:12 pm Link pellepiano wrote: Precisely. Standard reflector head aimed directly at the model. It creates a very hard shadow when shot against a white wall or seamless, much like the new black and white Calvin Klein ads featuring actor, Djimon Hansou. Sep 27 07 03:14 pm Link I sometimes shoot a flash head into the gold zebra california Sunbounce reflector. Sep 27 07 03:14 pm Link Thanks so much for sharing! I really appreciate the info. Sep 28 07 12:59 am Link Tony Di Lorenzo wrote: If one is going to use a reflector, don't bounce the light from a high vantage point. Keep it low like the angle of sunrise or sunset. Sep 28 07 01:01 am Link I take a different approach to mimicking sunlight. Since sunlight is usually too contrasty for my taste I like to light my subjects with a softbox in such a way that you are not really aware that it was used. Those that don't know simply see it as soft sunlight! Alexwh Sep 28 07 01:57 am Link A gold octagon or soft box is a good way ,but another way is to shoot raw and bump up your white balance to 5500 or 6000 when your on your computer Rich Sep 28 07 01:58 am Link There is only one way that I've seen to simulate sunlight, and that is a Profoto Hardbox.  Look at the HARD shadow on the wall ... see the shadow of the split in her skirt on her right. There is no other way to do AFIK. There is no fill on this shot. Made indoors.  Hardbox with bounce fill. Made at 8:00pm outdoors. Once again notice hard shadow. If you like it redder than I do, just gel light to taste. Sep 28 07 01:53 pm Link shoot it in raw and warm it up. Sep 28 07 02:09 pm Link |
