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Hi again, Rob Mitchell for expert village. We're moving on now. We have our key light
set up. We have our reflector here for fill. We just did the hair light on Nicole creating
a beautiful lighting on her shoulders as well as in her hair. We're introducing a third
light this time and we're going to do a background light. Obviously this one will go behind the
model. We want to make sure that you can't see the light. We'll put it down low behind
Nicole and we'll shine it up on the background and see what effect that gives us. Okay now,
we've placed the light exactly behind Nicole, right in the center and we're shining it against
the background. Let me turn it on here and you can see the effect that we're getting.
There we are. Now you see this round hot spot that the light creates. I like to place that
just over her shoulder so it comes across the shoulders. See what happens. We can bring
it right up here and it doesn't really look too attractive so I lower it just so that
we get a nice highlight, a nice arc right over the shoulders. You can see what's happening
now, we've added a hair light, a fill reflector, the key light, and a background light. Here's
another little trick that you can try. We're taking our background light and we're turning
it off the background and we're pointing right towards Nicole. You can see how it's highlighting
just a little bit of light here creating just a little more depth, a little bit more definition.
One final little trick when you're using a background light, you may want to throw some
color in there. Maybe we're just a little bit tired of that white light. I just got
a simple blue gel that I'm going to put in the background here. We'll tape it to the
light, just tape it right across the light here and you can see how things have changed
once again. We've added a little bit more drama. One could use red lights if we're using
Christmas cards, any different color lights you can, just make sure that it doesn't conflict
with what your model is wearing.