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What I'm going to do here is a

shoot through with off-camera flash combined with

a silhouette up on the sky.

So what drew me in here of course

was trying to find a vantage point where

I could shoot up into the into the

bright sky and silhouette my couple but also

fill the frame with lots of cool branches.

So I started by just doing a straightforward

silhouette on the sky framed within these branches

and now just to try I'm going to

add because there's no light obviously on these

branches right now I'm going to add a

light source, flash the foreground and maybe that's

going to be a cool interesting effect.

So I'm going to put a transmitter on

my camera okay I'm going to keep it

turned off right now just to make sure

my ambience where I want it and I've

got my flash and I'm also putting a

really warm gel on there okay because I

think it might look cool with some warmth

in these branches.

So again now I just have to make

sure that I'm within 1 200th of a

second which I am and I don't want

these branches to be overly sharp so if

I can figure out how to shoot at

a lower f-stop.

So what I'm going to do that's about

as dark as I can go there.

So I'm at ISO 100 1 200th of

a second and f16 so the couple is

silhouetted and just go back into that forehead

to forehead pose for me guys a little

bit of separation though okay I'm going to

focus on the couple recompose find that little

window okay so now what I'm going to

do is I'm going to turn my transmitter

on I'm going to position my flash and

turn it on I'm just going to start

around mid power and see what happens.

I don't know where I want the light

I could have the light coming from above

from the side or beneath we'll see what

happens if I just put it down here

I've got this the flash head zoomed all

the way out because I want to try

to light as many of these branches as

I can and I'm shooting at about 18

millimeter focal length right now.

Okay so let's see what happens now do

a test shot I'm at f16 so I'm

not too stressed about getting the focus perfect

okay I'm just going to eyeball this okay

almost nothing I got to turn that flash

all the way up 4a

so I'm going to crank it all the

way up full power now and if that

doesn't work we'll try repositioning it okay

we're getting there I don't love these leaves

let me get these ones out of there

and I don't love the angle of the

light I think I would rather have it

coming maybe from above there

we go perfect perfect all right I've got

gels all over the place hang tight there

guys I've actually got two gels stacked in

there so I'm just gonna that's why this

fell apart I'm going to drop it down

to one so it won't be quite as

warm and what I'll do is just try

to find the angle of light that I

like so let's just try no

I don't like that you know what um

do I have a light stand no do

I have an Erica Erica I need you

to hold the flash for me I'm not

loving the angle of light when it was

coming from down it was just flat and

boring I wanted to be backlighting these branches

ideally so I actually want it over there

kind of aimed in towards my lens can

you just if you just had the light

coming in from over here um backlighting these

all of these branches here okay and I

need all the power we can get so

we got to get it nice and close

uh don't mind how it's kind of in

the frame can you hide it behind like

the branches a bit no I need more

now it's getting blocked okay that's pretty good

okay that's that's good right there all right

now we're going to fix the composition there

it is all right guys side profiles looking

good I still have some shots here okay

just hold that yeah maybe try to bring

it um I see a little bit more

light Erica and I'm gonna go a little

bit darker on the ambient so I'm gonna

go up to f20 and I'm looking at

I really like the separation between um between

Jenny's hair behind it's giving good shape to

that these side profiles can you reach that

okay here we go guys here we go

really making sure I've got separation all around

their heads their silhouettes from the branches all

right okay good all right so it's kind

of hard to see guys but just you

know what I was trying to do there

wow there's a bunch of things there so

you just uh yeah so I had um

right away though I'll let you I'll just

I'll just be completely honest and let you

know that as soon as I started using

the flash and looking at the the results

I realized you know what I actually preferred

the silhouette um and that's something that you

know we're constantly struggling with is knowing when

to give up on something and or how

long or how hard to work and sometimes

it's worth it right sometimes it's worth not

settling and trying to perfect it but other

times it's not um often Erica's my she's

my uh safety check for that she'll often

come in and she'll look at the camera

she'll be like no this is not worth

it let's go do something better um and

that's like you know there's no formula there

it's just it's a feeling I guess it's

just take the take the time to just

ask yourself like is this worth it in

some cases it is and if that's the

case like like perfect it and make it

as good as you can or move on

to something that's going to be um that's

going to be better honestly I would have

just settled I would have just gone back

and made sure I got a great silhouette

there and then move on