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I'm going to demonstrate another backflash shot here

and we're outside, the sun has gone down,

we're approaching dusk light and this is usually

a really good time to start using backflash.

It almost can act a little bit like

the setting sun, so low in the sky,

give her a couple night because we've got

flat light, give her a couple of nice

little sort of 3D pop from the background.

So the sky isn't quite dark enough for

me to backflash them on yet and there's

not a lot of color in it either

tonight.

I was hoping for a good sunset but

it's not great.

So what I'm going to do is I'm

going to pick a dark part of the

landscape on which to to backflash them.

The obvious land feature to feature here is

the three sisters over here.

So I'm going to use a big lens,

I'm going to fill the frame with the

three sisters, 85 lens and I'm going to

have the in the foreground and I'm going

to give them a pop with the backflash.

So let's give this a try.

So I'm just going to use a naked

flash because I know the flash is going

behind the couple, I'm outside, it doesn't have

a lot of things that it's going to

bounce off, it's not going to destroy my

ambient exposure so I don't need a grid.

Plus I know that I want that flash

to wrap around as much as possible and

I've put a I've put a subtle warming

gel on it just because we're getting a

nice sort of approaching blue hour here and

this is going to contrast, this warm light

is going to contrast really nicely with the

cool sky.

Okay so I'm going to stick this behind

you, you guys are going to be right

around here and I'll get you to start

off in penguin pose.

Yeah penguin, yeah and I'm going to start

like a ram there.

So just pointing the flash behind the couple,

I don't want my camera to see it,

that's really the only thing and I want

it far enough back that I know this

spread of light is going to come out

and wrap around them.

If I have it too close, it doesn't

want to give it enough time for the

cone of, not time, but distance for the

cone of light to spread out.

Time would not make any difference because it's

the speed of light.

Okay we'll go a little bit further back

and we'll try with that and then I'll

adjust as necessary.

Okay so I'm going to try and centre

them right under the middle sister there and

I'm at 1 200th of a second, I'm

at 7.1 for my shutter speed and

I'm just going to test the flash.

Turning my transmitter on might help, again just

testing my settings here.

I'm actually finding the flash too warm, I

think it might be bouncing off her red

jacket and that's what's giving it that, it's

looking way warmer than it normally does so

I'm going to take the the grid off,

or not the grid, the warming gel.

Okay one more test of the flash here

before we do the real shot.

Okay now we're getting somewhere.

Okay it looks like it's wrapping around them

both really nicely.

I'm just going to back it up a

tad, it's just missing a little piece of

Jenny's head right here.

Okay I think we're ready to rock now.

Okay so I'm going to get my camera

fairly low, not that low, right about there.

Okay so together at the hips there guys

and looking at each other and hands up

on each other's backs there.

There we go and almost touching foreheads.

Jenny you can go on your tiptoes a

bit.

There we go and almost touching foreheads.

Perfect.

Okay I'm just going to check those.

Those are great.

I'm going to try one more lighting setup.

The light's still going to be coming from

behind them but I'm going to have them

at slightly different angles.

I'll show you exactly what I'm going to

do.

Lani's going to be one of my light

stands.

So come on over here.

Okay let's get you guys holding hands right

now but holding hands and like this sort

of up on your tiptoes just like that.

Okay and oh yeah that's cute.

Okay okay so you're gonna well actually just

hold both of them.

No gels.

No gels.

Just take the lights down with you.

Yeah.

Okay so Lani's going to hold one flash

here and this one's going to hit Jesse

and then one flash here.

So you can see they're sort of pointed

towards each other at a little bit of

an angle so their directions hit the faces.

So it's not quite a backlight.

I'm not quite going for the rim light

here.

I'm going for a hard light on the

short side of their face.

Right and hopefully both flashes will be hid

behind their profiles.

Yeah well that's the tricky part.

That's always the tricky part and I think

let's actually um let's get your hands.

I want to get your hands in it

so maybe maybe like hold them like this

like with your fingers.

Yeah and then go in close.

Yes there we go.

Nice.

So I'm about three meters behind and I'm

going to duck down so that Erica can't

see me.

Test shot.

Um can you turn down can you just

turn them both down to about what are

they at now?

Nine.

Like seven each?

Yeah.

I want to let a little bit more

ambient in.

I'm finding I want to see the facial

expressions a little bit more in this one

and go a little less drastic.

Yeah hang on one's not firing.

Air's turned off.

There you go.

Okay they're both on now.

Okay good.

Okay now I want you guys really close.

So hands up high on each other's back

sort of like like this.

Jenny let's get your arms on top.

No other way actually.

Yeah you're right.

Yeah uh but looking at each other I

want a little bit of negative space in

between there and just slightly lean over my

camera.

I think you had to do it for

landing this morning.

Yeah.

Let me test the light here.

Is which way is the wind blowing?

Is it blowing your hair that way?

Oh okay that's okay as long as it's

not blowing it in front of your profile.

Okay almost touching noses guys.

And turn a little bit counterclockwise for me

just so I can make sure I see

Jesse's nose.

And Jenny can you hold your head up

normal?

Yeah that just like that.

Lani I can see the flash.

Which way?

There we go.

Okay I'm happy with that.

Wow.

So you can see when the when the

wind blows it just gives you like this

this mane of hair.

Wow.

It's awesome.

I've never seen a photo like that.

Okay so pass me the camera.

You take a flash here.

What I'm going to do is something very

similar to what Erica just did and this

this is often what happens with us is

we kind of piggyback off each other's idea

and we see something and then we kind

of work it and do another spin on

it.

But it's going to be the exact same

technique except now instead of filling the frame

with their profiles up close I'm going to

back them up and have them go really

small and try to bring some movement into

the darkness beneath the three sisters.

Okay settings are going to stay almost exactly

the same.

Erica and Jesse and Jenny head on back

there.

They're going to go back to that ridge

and Erica's basically going to have them frolic

back and forth holding hands with separation and

she's going to try to light them from

behind so I can hopefully have a rimlet

running silhouette beneath the three sisters.

Same lens 85 millimeter f8 1 1 60th

iso 800.

Keep going.

One of the one of the sweet things

about these pro photo transmitters is literally they'll

they'll fire wirelessly for blocks.

We don't have to worry like we used

to with our Canon triggers.

A little bit more.

Okay right there.

Right there.

And then the tricky part is going to

be for Erica to hide the flash behind

them to rim light them without me catching

the big flare.

So in a lot of them I'm seeing

Erica's flare.

I got a couple where I can't so

I'm going to zoom in on those.

I got to zoom way in and check

and see how the light is.

Oh that's cool.

Okay that flare is awesome.

Okay let's try it again Erica.

I could see the flash on this side

so just stay a little bit back.

Just you have to be a little bit

further that way with the flash.

No no.

Erica it was perfect but I could see

the flash.

So let's do it again.

Zooming in.

So make sure we got oh focus is

off.

One more.

Last one.

Somehow I missed the focus on that one.

Okay.

Oh yeah.

Okay.

We got it.