{"id":2755,"date":"2013-04-29T05:55:09","date_gmt":"2013-04-29T04:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/?p=2755"},"modified":"2013-04-29T07:04:57","modified_gmt":"2013-04-29T06:04:57","slug":"backlit-portrait-with-just-one-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/?p=2755","title":{"rendered":"Backlit portrait with just one light"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Final-Christina.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2760\" alt=\"Final-Christina\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Final-Christina-300x184.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"184\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Final-Christina-300x184.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Final-Christina-640x394.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Final-Christina-625x384.jpg 625w, https:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Final-Christina-180x110.jpg 180w, https:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Final-Christina-350x215.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Final-Christina.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>I\u2019m a huge fan of using speedlights, or flash guns as I grew up calling them and I know a lot of photographers own at least one. For me the humble speedlight is a powerful tool capable of producing amazing portraits.<\/p>\n<p>In this video I\u00a0try to break the laws of physics by using one speedlight to light both the back and front of a model with just one light. The secret is reflecting the light off of a silver reflector which in effect makes one light become two.<\/p>\n<p>As a final touch I\u2019ll create a sparkling background by adding a little bit of flour into the air behind my model Kristina but in front of the flash.<br \/>\n[youtube]<a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/p3xCN7geBI0\">http:\/\/youtu.be\/p3xCN7geBI0<\/a>[\/youtube]<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Equipment used in the video:\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Adobe Photoshop CS6<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.adorama.com\/searchsite\/default.aspx?searchinfo=photoshop+cs6&amp;category=4294967278+11&amp;KBID=67338\">http:\/\/www.adorama.com\/searchsite\/default.aspx?searchinfo=photoshop+cs6&amp;category=4294967278+11&amp;KBID=67338<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Canon 60D<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.adorama.com\/ICA60D.html?KBID=67338\">http:\/\/www.adorama.com\/ICA60D.html?KBID=67338<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Canon 24-105L f\/4 IS<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.adorama.com\/CA24105AFU.html?KBID=67338\">http:\/\/www.adorama.com\/CA24105AFU.html?KBID=67338<\/a><\/p>\n<p>5 in 1 reflector<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.adorama.com\/WE5I1R20.html?KBID=67338\">http:\/\/www.adorama.com\/WE5I1R20.html?KBID=67338<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m a huge fan of using speedlights, or flash guns as I grew up calling them and I know a lot of photographers own at least one. For me the humble speedlight is a powerful tool capable of producing amazing portraits. In this video I\u00a0try to break the laws of physics by using one speedlight &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/?p=2755\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Backlit portrait with just one light<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2760,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[70,61,23,79,36,34,37,78,24,83],"class_list":["post-2755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-videos","tag-canon","tag-cs6","tag-featured","tag-flash","tag-photography","tag-photoshop","tag-portrait","tag-speedlight","tag-spotlight","tag-strobe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2755"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2766,"href":"https:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2755\/revisions\/2766"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}