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So now we're going to attempt a shoot

through but we're going to incorporate some flash

and we're going to incorporate the flash into

the foreground.

Often as photographers we only think about flashing

the main subjects of the photograph like the

person that we're photographing or the sculpture that

we're photographing.

We don't often think about flashing other elements

within our frame and we can get some

really unique and interesting visual concepts in our

photos by flashing other elements.

So I'm going to flash the foreground.

If you haven't watched the tutorial yet on

my natural light version of this shot go

watch that first because I'm essentially doing the

exact same natural light shoot through that I

demonstrated except now I'm adding a flash and

I'm adding a flash not to the couple

I'm adding the flash to the foreground so

all these leaves all this foliage I'm just

going to light up with a flash.

So I've just got my pro photo here.

I know that I'm at f16.

I'm at 1 200th of a second but

because my f-stop is really high I'm

probably going to start with my flash and

because we're midday I'm going to probably start

my flash at full power.

I'm going to keep it at full power

we'll try that and see if we have

to adjust.

I'm also going to put a really warm

gel on it this is just a CTO

gel but it's a full stop one is

that what they're called full stops yeah okay

full stop CTO gel really warm.

The reason I chose this really warm color

is because it's fall we've got lots of

yellow warm tones around us not in these

leaves but anywhere else we look we've got

yellow yellow warm tones so I'm just going

to use this this to flash the foreground.

You could do blue you could do purple

you could do I'm not I prefer to

stick to natural colors and that's just personal

preference so I'm going to do this nice

warm orange uh so I'm going to stick

that grid or not the grid the gel

on the flash I'm not going to use

a grid because I'm outdoors I don't have

to worry about this light bouncing off walls

or bouncing off ceilings it's not going to

destroy my ambient exposure right the couple are

way way up there so this is I

don't care if it spreads and I'm not

even going to use a light stand I'm

going to try just putting this flash on

the ground over here to the side and

going to tilt it up a bit and

I'm just pointing it right at these branches

okay exact same lens exact same settings as

my natural light shoot through okay so uh

can you guys take your jackets off again

sorry and get that scarf flowing nicely in

the in the breeze just like you did

last time I'm going to grab my focus

up here and then I'm going to frame

them right there together at the hips perfect

perfect no it's good they're doing good uh

the other thing that I've changed from the

natural light shoot is I've had to change

my camera to mechanical shutter all right when

you're using the flash you can't use electronic

shutter so I've changed to mechanical shutter which

means I can't shoot as rapid fire but

let's look at that and see that looks

really interesting um just check the power okay

so right now my flash is at 8

.7 uh the Profoto has it has a

different way of rating flash power this would

be about half power on a Canon flash

or a Godox or any other model okay

frame right through there okay looking at each

other holding hands a little bit separation perfect

and we're getting that scarf that

looks good there's one other thing I'm going

to try just because when I look at

my frame I see that I've got a

little bit of a blank spot up here

where I'd like some leaves so I'm going

to break this branch off okay

so I'm just putting this branch in here

just to fill the frame a little bit

more with that these really interesting backlit uh

leaves um just so that I'm it's very

intentional that I've filled the frame with as

much of these as possible in terms of

where I placed the flash it's it's almost

just trial and error I didn't want it

coming directly from my camera uh because I

feel like that would be a bit too

blinding and and a bit too obvious I

want the light coming off my camera so

I just tried it off to the side

here I really like it I'm just going

to keep it there I could have done

it from the other side I also could

have done it from the back if I'd

done it from the back it might have

been a bit tricky to frame the picture

with the flash removed and I might have

had a bit of a flare so I

just stuck it on the side and that

seemed to work really well so that is

a shoot through using a flash to light

the foreground