Male Portraits: Killing the Ambient Light with Gels and Hi-Sync

We came to the location with my friend. Found a good spot and start to test light. I took Profoto B1 with OCF Beauty Dish. I know that Profoto has HSS. So you can shoot with open aperture and low shutter speed. And you can make dark background very easy using only shutter speed. First I asked my friend go on spot and test light. I like how I can create dark background. We shoot it at 4pm, sun was really bright, but using hi-sync you can make night very easy.



Then I decided to try my color gel filter.  From the left side I get blue colours from the ProfotoB1 + color gel, from the right side - yellow colour from the sun. It looks awesome! Then we started to create magic!



I love what we get, open aperture, blurred background, a mix of blue and yellow colours.



Then we changed location. I added second Profoto B1 and wanted to mix 2 lights and sun.


This is how I put the light, so now I can shoot from 2 sides and using light with a blue filter as main and as rim light.


Front side



Also, you can create some panoramic shots with your model



Back side



This article and all the images were originally published on www.dmitrybocharov.com  and shared with his permission

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