Sunlight and diffusers

It’s been a while since my latest update, so here is a quick one.

At the moment I’m spending some time in Calgary, with my good friend Tyler Stalman (http://www.stalman.ca) and last week we had some fun shooting during the brightest hours of the day.  I must admit I’ve never been a big fan of shooting in those conditions.  But now I realized that’s because I never did it properly.

When using no light shaper, you’ll end up with blown out highlights and harsh shadows all over the place. Using a reflector ended up getting the light a bit better, but most of the times it still was too harsh and it looked unnatural.  Plus that it’s hard for the models to keep their eyes look normally when you’re blinding them ;-)

But this time we’ve been using a big diffuser to block and diffuse the hard sunlight, and the results are really good. Makes me wonder why I haven’t been using this more often, even after having used this technique a couple of times before. Guess I got sucked into using strobes a bit too much maybe haha.

Hanging out in the park.

So now I’ve decided to buy three 2m * 1.20m diffusers for my upcoming trip to Iceland, this is going to be fun!

ciao,

Ivar – http://www.iamivar.nl

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