Hey y'all! I finally got around to starting my tutorials and this has been a long time coming. My apologies for it taking forever, but please enjoy!
Today I'll be showing my method of how I do day lighting since we all know the lighting in HL can be cheeks sometimes. In order to do this, you must first have the Otis_Inf camera mod that you can find on his patreon. This won't work without it.
Tagging: @amethystandemma & @sage-pages who I know I've tried to explain this rather poorly to in the past LOL.
Step One: Change the weather to clear
Skipping this step could result in clouds blocking proper lighting and the potential of you getting rained on and unable to get the rain spots out of the clothes, ruining your photos. It's a good habit to get in while taking outside shots.
Step Two: Change the time of day
You don't have to adjust it to exactly where I put it, but mess around with it to get your wanted daylight. It depends on your location and where you are standing.
Step Three: Optional (Somewhat) Post processing
You can mess around with the White Balance to make your photos warmer/colder, for daylight shots I prefer warm. Auto Exposure just makes the screen brighter, so if you were in daylight that was not as bright as the photo, you can somewhat fake the amount of brightness that's actually outside. I just have it a smidge up in this photo. And turning off the Vignette just looks better for bright photos.
Step Four: Turn on the Spotlight
Can't have a lighting tutorial without it.
Step Five: Crank up Intensity
Sometimes both don't need to be all the way up, but in this instance and most, they need to be otherwise the light WILL NOT show up. The outside brightness is brighter than the default spotlight setting so you will need to turn it up.
Step Six: Edit your spotlight
Turn off the shadows, as it kind of defeats the purpose of this tutorial & change your channel lighting from channel 0 to channel 1. This allows the lighting to be more direct on your MC's face.
Step Seven: Attach your light to the camera
You can do this by clicking that little camera icon that the arrow is coming from that I totally forgot to circle. Make sure your camera is on when you do this so you don't accidentally control your mc instead of the camera. Then, position the light directly on your MC's face as needed.
If you would like more of these spotlights, simply hit the copy button that's right next to the camera button and also move those to the MC's face as needed.
Before & After:
In different lighting: (With auto exposure off. In this lighting, the surrounding is too dark and with the setting I had it on, the auto exposure will turn the screen white. Though you can adjust it to make it work if needed)
Thank you for reading! Please reblog if you think others would like to see this. Thanks for the support and I love you all so much! <3
