#direct light

[foxyou-too]

A Space for Being by Google

[victoriashifke]

Vroom vroom

[davidmccandless]

“As if you were on fire from within. The moon lives in the lining of your skin.” ― Pablo Neruda

[thericene]

1 hour material study. I have so many rocks and crystals (and that copper ball) and I decided that a good way to practice shading, colouring, and making realistic materials would be to draw some of them. The clear crystal is definitely the one I like best.

Daily painting 580

[the-candie]

Edwardian Woman with Orange Fruit

A portrait of a young salmon-haired Edwardian woman with an orange fruit on the top of her head, styled like Brooke DiDonato. The image features direct light to her face, with light orange and light amber tones, pop inspiration, naturalistic charm, and eccentric detail placements.

[defensefilms]

A Guide To Shooting In Natural Light

A Guide On Using The Sun As A Light Source:

The first and most important thing, is that you must always be aware of your own postition in relation to the sun, because it's the only thing you can actually control.

You won't ever be able to control how hot the sun is, or when it goes behind clouds but you'll always be able to control you're own positioning.

To understand the reason for this, you must understand the difference between diffused and direct light.

Meet Chantel. She's our model photographed below, and she was kind enough to pose for us.

Observe in the image below how the direct sunlight completely covers Chantel and she is completely exposed with realy only the shadow under her neck and the shadows of the soccer net falling over her.

Now in the image below, with Chantel photographed in a medium close-up, we no longer have the sun light falling over her face and covering her completely, and more darkness and shadow completely covering the right side of her face.

Her hair and her positioning provide some diffusion in this case and because the sun is to her left, light is almost completely blocked off.

Now observe in the picture below is very different because her face is exposed with no shadow falling over it.

In this case, we used a reflector to fill out all the shadows that would otherwise be present on her face, and because I used the gold side of the reflector, you can see the kind of golden glow brought on by the reflector reflecting the sunlight.

By utilizing a reflector we are taking more control of what we are looking at and the lighting situation that we are in as well as using our positiong relative to the sun.

This is a thoery that get way more in-depth the deeper in to photography you go, more especially in studio lighting situations, but even in you favorite television shows, an intense amount of thought and gear is needed to capture what you may percieve as an ordinary scene outdoors.

This video above is from Crimson Engine and he's one of the best youtubers I've watched as it pertains to all things film and video.

Because he is working in video and not stills, and becasue he is primarily shooting actors, Crimson Engine utilizes c-stands, flags, reflectors, large diffusion filters and other equipment that is quite heavy but sometimes completely necessary.

Another really informative piece of video about this top is from In Depth Cine, and he has a guide on lighting scenes without lights at all, and to do this he advises bouncing reflectors.

So in a situation where you cannot control your lighting, say like a sporting event, your best hack is to always understand where you are in relation to where the sun is.

Understanding this well enough will allow you to get good well exposed photographs even though your are in the outdoor with no equipment.

Just a hack I wanted to share.

[dariaburkut]

Adjustment layers in Photoshop

I have been working in Photoshop for many years. However, it was only this week when I found out one tremendous tool to work with paintings, illustration and any images. It's adjustment layers.

To use the adjustment layers, we need to press the half black half white circle icon at the bottom of the layer's window. Choose which adjustment you want to add and make changes. Once the layer was created, it influences everything below it. Here are some advantages that I found in the approach:

We can change the values of the layer when we want or just change the opacity of the adjustment layer.

These layers include a mask, and it is the most useful thing: everything we paint white will have 100% opacity and everything we paint black - 0% opacity.  

I found this method extremely powerful for image-making: to create a nice contrast between the light and the shadow, to simplify values when I need to, to preserve image from being grey.

[beyondsomewhere]

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