{"id":2873,"date":"2013-05-30T05:38:07","date_gmt":"2013-05-30T04:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/?p=2873"},"modified":"2013-05-30T20:25:04","modified_gmt":"2013-05-30T19:25:04","slug":"candlelight-from-a-speedlight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/?p=2873","title":{"rendered":"Candlelight From A Speedlite"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Sophie-Final\"<\/a>Candle light is one of the toughest types of light to work with for several reasons. There’s the obvious health and safety issues with naked flames and when your studios ‘made of wood (like mine is) that’s a big concern. That aside, candle light is also incredibly dim which is why film and TV directors fake candle light… and so do I.<\/p>\n

In this video tutorial I’ll show you how to turn a speedlight in to realistic candle light which is safe, predictable and bright enough to keep your ISO at sensible levels.<\/p>\n

I’m using a modified lantern as my virtual light source. If you want to get the same lamp then pop along to your nearest Ikea where you can pick one of\u00a0the Rotera Lanterns up for around \u00a32.00 (see link below) all you need to is leave it exposed to the elements for a few years and it’ll look just like mine \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

[youtube]http:\/\/youtu.be\/Z_7kQorCwkU<\/a>[\/youtube]
\nCan’t view the video? Try this link http:\/\/youtu.be\/Z_7kQorCwkU<\/a><\/p>\n

Equipment used in the video: <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Adobe Photoshop CS6
\nhttp:\/\/www.adorama.com\/searchsite\/default.aspx?searchinfo=photoshop+cs6&category=4294967278+11&KBID=67338<\/a><\/p>\n

Canon 60D
\nhttp:\/\/www.adorama.com\/ICA60D.html?KBID=67338<\/a><\/p>\n

Canon 24-105L f\/4 IS
\nhttp:\/\/www.adorama.com\/CA24105AFU.html?KBID=67338<\/a><\/p>\n

Ikea Lantern
\nhttp:\/\/www.ikea.com\/gb\/en\/catalog\/products\/26472200\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Candle light is one of the toughest types of light to work with for several reasons. There’s the obvious health and safety issues with naked flames and when your studios ‘made of wood (like mine is) that’s a big concern. That aside, candle light is also incredibly dim which is why film and TV directors … Continue reading Candlelight From A Speedlite<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2875,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[76,61,23,79,96,36,34,78,95,24,3],"class_list":["post-2873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-videos","tag-adorama","tag-cs6","tag-featured","tag-flash","tag-ikea","tag-photography","tag-photoshop","tag-speedlight","tag-speedlite","tag-spotlight","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2873","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=2873"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2882,"href":"https:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2873\/revisions\/2882"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}