Matching Light and Shooting Backgrounds

Well, so far 2017 has been a whirlwind of awesome, and I hope that it's bee the same for you! I wanted to take sec to talk to you guys about the latest set of tutorials we released and give you a quick thought on how to use them. Last year we launched a video called "Intro to Lighting Modifiers for Composite Photography" and that was intended to give you a starting point to choose how to simulate different types of light, or just know what the heck different modifiers do! If you haven't seen that one yet give it a quick watch before you continue with this blog:

My goal with this video is to help you either pick the correct modifier for a composite or help you decide with one to buy/use on your next shoot! There is also some helpful tips on how to set the modifiers up!

So now that you know what they do it's time to start working on a composite! We just recently released a video explaining how to shoot a background for a composite, it will help you get some of the basic practices down to make sure your composites go together seamlessly. Check that one out and then keep reading for our latest video:

Next episode of tutorials on composite photography teaching you guys how to shoot backgrounds on location! Quick side note, I mis-spoke when talking about bracketing (it was cold ha), in order to bracket a full stop from 10 sec it would need to be a 20 sec exposure.

Got it? Good! Now, for our most recent video we are heading into the studio to show you how we shot the model for the background! I'll be launching a more in depth Photoshop tutorial in the next couple of weeks showing you how I pieced together the final composite for this one. While you're waiting for that go out and shoot some composites, but first, check out our latest video below:

Episode 2 of our series on shooting a composite with match lighting. Start with this video on shooting the background if you haven't watched it yet: https://youtu.be/m6EAA57TsyU Episode 3 will talk about putting the pieces together in Photoshop and I will launch that in the next couple of weeks!

Would love to hear any feedback from you guys and I am working on better sound and color for you all in the next set of tutorials! Also, we'll be launching another video on how to light a subject, and place them into backgrounds that you don't have the measurements, for coming really soon! Go make stuff, and be awesome!