In this video I create a rainy window
portrait in a small home studio
hello I'm Gavin Hoey and you're watching
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photographers! And today you join me
inside my small home studio which is
lucky because outside it's cold wet and
rainy except we are actually going to make it rain in
the studio, and I'm going to create a
rainy window portrait, after this I need
a few bits of kit. It all starts with
flash and I've got my Streaklight 360 on
a glow softbox up there, but also need a
small speedlight as well! And that's just
the lights, that's all we're going to use. The window
well no actual windows involved in fact
it's this - this is a sheet of three millimeter
perspex and that is going to
become our window, once we set everything
up. So! Well let's get a model in, let's
get shooting. Today I've been joined in
the studio by Beth, who's gonna be the
model for this shoot. Now she's already
positioned behind our window, but for the
light, well I've got a large softbox and
a Streaklight 360, so just a single light
source. I want to try and create the look
and feel of an overcast cloudy day, so a
big soft box is the way to go, and also
an elevated light source, because of
course the lights going to come down from above.
Now we got Beth in front of a black
background. I want it to be dark in the
background because if she was inside it
would be darker inside than outside. That
kind of works. I've metered this out at f/11.
Let's just take a picture with the
single light and see how it looks.
Beth are you ready? And get here we go.
And that's great, we get a nice well exposed
shot behind a rather tacky looking piece
of plastic, but it works. So to create
the rain, I'm going to use a water spray
and just going to spray the glass in
front of Beth. You ready? Here we go. Now
how much of this you put on is entirely
up to you, because it's going to change
the look and the feel. I think I want
quite a wet day - we're in the UK her
we are used to a bit of rain, so let's get
quite a bit of water on there.
Now you can add as much water as you
like to this, it's going to affect the the
look and feel of the shot, so maybe add a
little to begin with, and then build it
up as you go through. Ok, let's take a
test shot see how this looks.
Here we go! And it's lovely, it doesn't
affect the exposure at all. Of course it
does affect the look and feel of the
picture and f/11 - that means I've
got enough deputy of field to get the
water drops and Beth's face in focus, at
the same time, if you want to do a
variation of this you could just change
the depth of field, reduce the flash
power, go for a shallower depth of field
and maybe just have the water drops in
focus or just the models face in focus.
Now I talked about depth of field in
another video but for now I want
everything in focus, but I also want a
bit of detail in the background! To light
the background, I'm going to use a second
light, so your little speed light, so this is
just a Flashpoint Zoom Lithium Li-on speed
light, just pop this around the back.
I want to be careful that it doesn't
actually hit the back of Beth I'm going
to aim this at the background like that.
Let's take a shot like that, see how that
goes
Here we go, now that looks really good, but
maybe it's not bright enough!
Well I can actually change the power of
the speed light remotely, using the remote
control and get a bit brighter here we go!
I think maybe that's just a little bit
too bright, so I think in the end I'm
going to go somewhere in the middle. That
just helps to separate that out from the
background and give this a bit more
depth to the image.
Ok so that's the basic step. Lets take some pictures.
Brilliant, ok there we go, so we got some
nice little shots there. We had some nice
little things set up, some props for Beth
to interact with that worked really well.
But I reckon there is another shot, if, we just
rotate everything 90 degrees. Now that's just
going to take a moment. Hang on their.. Beth if you
would step out for me.
For the second set up what I've done is
I've literally just taking the entire
set turned it 90 degrees, but you will
notice one thing has changed. It's the
background. I've swapped from the black
background to the gray background. Now
the only reason I've done that, is
because I'm working in a small home
studio, and space is at a premium, and I
don't have any room to get a second
flash in there and separate out the
light. So to make sure that the
background doesn't go pure heavy black I've
gone for a grey rather than black.
That's the only difference, however in
moving things around I've lost a bit of
water, so we'll just add a bit more water
onto the background. There we go
I'm going to shoot this in a different
direction. So where before I was shooting
this way I'm going to turn myself 90
degrees as well, so I'm going to shoot from
the side, and have a sort of glancing
shot down through the side here. Now in
order to get this to work, I want a
shallower depth of field, because shooting
at this angle is really going to lend
itself to a shallow depth of field. We'll
have some in focus and out-of-focus
areas, that means I need to re-meter
this light to f/2.8, which is as wide open
as this lens will go. Let's just check the
meter reading for that, here we go,
and that is f/2.2 so it almost there.
we just need to pop it up slightly f/2.8
Ok, so correct exposure. Beth are you ready? Let's
take a few shots like this. So Beth I'd like you to
look out the window, that's it.
Brilliant! Ok, so there we go, we've
got some great photos there, This was a
really simple but so effective technique.
Now to make this really work as a
window, we got a little bit of photoshop
work to do, and I'm going to do that
right now. There's really only one thing missing from
my fake window, and that's the outside
world, because when it didn't exist it
was a fake window in a small home studio!
That's what I'm going to add in
Photoshop - the outside world, and to do it
you can use the most any image.
Let me show you what I mean, so this is
the picture I want to add in my
reflection of the outside world, and this
is the outside world, I want to add it.
Now, it doesn't have to be this image but
this is a previous AdoramaTV, where I did
a 15 minute photo challenge.. in this
location. I kind of thought it'd be good to
use it again now! The first thing I'm
going to do - is just go to select, and all
and then go over to edit and copy, so
this gets copied into the computer
memory, go back to the main image and
choose edit again and this time paste.
Now when I paste it it's going to fit
perfectly, because they were taken with
the same camera. But it doesn't really
allow me to see through it because I
need to change the layer blending mode.
So over here on the right-hand side
where it says normal, I drop that down.
I'm going to find screen, and screen is
going to be the blending mode that's
going to make the magic happen. Now this
stage it still doesn't look quite right.
So let's come over to the opacity and
on the opacity going to drop it down
probably two roundabout 30 to
40%... something like that.
Now at this point, you could stop here
because in a way it does kind of look a
bit like a reflection, but for me just a
bit too sharp, a bit too defined and my
reflection needs to be a lot blurrier, and this
is why you can use almost any image
whatsoever.
Let's have a look.. so I'm going to come
back to my menu at the top and choose
filter and then I'm going to come down
to blur and Gaussian blur.
I'm going to blur this a lot, and I do
mean a lot, the more I blur it the less
distinct it becomes, I don't see that
line here for example, I could keep it in,
there is no reason why not, but i think I just
want to sort of a generic blurry mess, so
probably something at around about s
the 80's I think ... 70 to 80...
that looks fine. I'll click ok, and that
gives me that lovely misty blur that's a
reflection. But it's not a reflection, I
could even perhaps just drop the opacity
ever so slightly lower, just to bring
that down, so it doesn't affect but it's
not overly clear what it does. So that's
without, and that's with. Then you can
see how that just makes it feel a lot
more like a real window, because that's
how real glass windows work, and there you
go! There's my final rainy day picture
completed. I'm really pleased with how
that came out, and it was incredibly
simple to do. What we needed was a bit of
water and a sheet of perspex. Now if you want to see
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I'm Gavin Hoey, thanks for watching.
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