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Photo Deconstruction: Using a V-Flat to create Graphic Shadows

Today I want to share how I use a V-flat as a gobo to create interesting and graphic shadows on the background. If you know my work you know that I love graphic elements -- graphic makeup, graphic clothing, graphic backgrounds, clean bold and graphic is part of my style. Since there are many different ways to achieve this, I want to show you how you can use lighting to make an interesting and graphic element to your background. The background in the image shown in the video is white on one side and black on the other. Perhaps this could be achieved in Photoshop but I want to show you how you can achieve it mostly just through lighting and then you can make some tweaks in your post-processing. Lighting: The main light on our subject is an extra large white umbrella with diffusion which fundamentally is a large soft light source which is going to give even illumination across my subject, but that's not going to affect the background. The actual background I've chosen here is Savage Universal Fashion Grey background. It's not very light or very dark, which means I can actually push and pull the tones. I can make it white by lighting it or I can make it black by pulling the light away. This is where the creativity in the shot comes into action. My second light is hidden behind the V-flat, to the far left. I'm using barn doors with a hard light source, and how I create that sharp line of light on the background is by using that V-flat as a Gobo. Gobo stands for “go between”. By closing part of that V-flat, it’s casting a shadow onto the background. Camera Settings: I was using a Canon 24-105mm on a Canon 5D Mark IV. The reason I was using this lens is because I achieved some shots that were wider, full length shots, and others I cropped in for beauty shots. With this lens, I can change my focal length really easily in order to achieve many crops without wasting a lot of time changing my gear. I use barn doors because I was trying to cast the shadow using the leaves of the barn doors but unfortunately it wasn't crisp enough so I had to bring in the V-flat. The closer it is back to the light the more diffused that shadow would be. Post Processing: I was shooting tethered and the image wasn’t black and white to begin with, since this image is all about shape, it's all about graphic elements, I felt color wasn’t adding anything to the image. As I was shooting tethered, I used a pretty strong black and white contrast effect. Analyzing this image, I'd be fine with it as is, but there's a few distractions I wanted to clean up. There's a few veins in the forehead and maybe a couple of wrinkles in the neck that could be removed, using Photoshop. Before retouching, I pulled back on a bit of the contrast so that I wouldn’t get blown out skin and lose textures, however after I was done cleaning things up, I realized that adding that contrast back in helped the image pop a bit more. You could achieve this in post, you could go ahead and cut out the subject and do the black and white effect but it was actually quite easy to do it with my lighting. When you are thinking about how you can work with graphic shapes, you can do so with your clothing, with your makeup etc like you see here, but you can also do so with your set design and your background. 👇💬 So have you tried this technique before? Using gobos and other hard light modifiers to create graphic elements? If so, drop a comment and let me know! 📸 Gear: ✅ Canon 5D iv: https://prf.hn/l/EJDBPoe/ ✅ Canon 24-105mm 4.0: https://prf.hn/l/deZLnJq/ ✅ Profoto D2: (discontinued, linking to new D3): https://prf.hn/l/K9ENnmk/ ✅ Profoto Barn Doors: https://prf.hn/l/PlpEE4P/ ✅ Profoto XL White Umbrella Deep + Diffusion: https://prf.hn/l/W4xmYOj/ ✅ V-flat world V-flat: https://prf.hn/l/EJnOwJ0/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 👉 Check out this tutorial on using a v-flats to create 3 different beauty images:    • How to Create 3 Different Beauty Lighting ...   👉 Also check out this blog post that uses graphic elements to create bold imagery! https://learn.lindsayadlerphotography... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 🔥 Want to learn these types of techniques and more? Check out my class Master Studio Lighting: https://lindsayadler.photo/masterstud.... ---- Portfolio: http://lindsayadlerphotography.com Instagram:   / lindsayadler_photo   Facebook:   / lindsayadlerphotography   Twitter:   / lindsayadler   Education: http://learn.lindsayadlerphotography.com Some of the links in this description contain affiliate links to partners.