So let's now talk about highlights. Now highlights is basically the bright spots in your image. Now of course highlights, they come from intense light, you can't get highlights with a really soft, weak light, you're going to need something strong. So in order to get these highlights, you're going to need to use you know, either Hard Light like you know, something that kind of works like a flashlight, you can have like water or really shiny reflective objects in your shot in order to bring out these highlights. So anyway, highlights they come from hard light, you know, you can get highlights from your soft light source, but most likely, it's not really a soft light source like that. Try using the sunlight and trying to get these you know really reflective highlights on your face, you're not really going to get that unless you have modified your your, you know your window or you had like a stencil or something to give you you know, some highlights in certain spots.

So the reason for this is because when you have a very big light source, you're getting lit up from all angles. And the highlights come from a very specific spot. So if you want to get some good highlights from, you know, soft light sources, these light sources are not going to be too soft, because if it's too soft, you're going to get something that you would probably get from like the sun or something like that. So typically what is done is that you would either use a hard light to get very specific highlights, but you're going to also have to control for the shadows. Or you can get your shot, get the highlights that you need, and then bring these highlights out in post. But these highlights have to be there in the first place.

So of course, you're going to need to shoot with soft light, but make sure the slight isn't too soft because you're going to take away from the highlights. That's why usually in a studio setup, you would have all types of lights because you're going to need to control for certain things. So if I want us to bring up some highlights I can point some hard lights and try to control for the shadows using the fill lights. And I would use the soft lights to give me overall diffusion. There's just so much there. So I wouldn't worry too much about the highlights, I'll try to make sure that they're there.

But they're not, you know, overbearing because if you got overblown shots that you're gonna have some real problems in post. So if you have like the bass there, you have these little shiny spots and you have, you know, the highlights you want, they don't need to be as intense because the intensity can be brought up, you know, in whatever program you're using, after the fact. So if you're going to be working with video, maybe something like premiere, or if you're going to be working on a photo that maybe something like Photoshop, then you can bring up like the highlight slider and you can really mess with it as you please but make sure that you get the highlights without destroying your image. And the way you do this is by keeping the highlights there but not you know, overbearing because the detail nice Nice to be there.

I know I just went on and on about this, but um, yeah, that just about covers it. So let's move on to the next lesson.