Now I've changed my setup quite a bit, I went from three lights to two. And now I'm going to bring these two down to one. So what I have is a key light up here, right on top of the camera, and then I have a fill light here. Now what I'm going to try to do is to remove this fill light here and use bounce light to basically work as the fill light. And this is just to show you that there are alternative ways of lighting your scene. But you do have to have at least one light source in the scene so that you can have something to control.

So if you have one light source, then you can use different objects to illuminate the scene by knowing where to put it and how big this object is supposed to be. Because remember that the size of the light source itself has an effect on how your image looks. So right now I'm going to turn off the scale light. Now as you can tell the shadows are a bit dark under my neck They look a little too dark. So I'm going to need to bring something in so that I can have some fill. And that's why you use a fill light, you use the fill light to basically manage the shadows.

That's how I like to look at it. Now I've got a big board over there, and I'm going to bring it in so that it can work as something to bounce the light offers so that I can have some diffusion or at least better diffusion of still lit up. But I need some light coming in from you know the sides or something to kind of basically control the shadows make them a little softer. Now when I place it right behind me, you can tell that this board is basically lighting me up from behind because the light is bouncing off of this surface here. And since this is a shiny white surface, I'm being lit up from all around it looks as if I'm in some type of dome a light, even though the light sources are just in front and behind me. Now this board here isn't generating light, but it is bouncing light because of the light coming from behind the camera.

Now I'm holding the board here, I will play something behind it so that you can stay upright. But for now I'm just going to hold on to it. And you can I'm pretty sure that you can tell what this surface is doing to to the scene itself, because I won't need to turn on this light. If I have something like this sitting next to me. Whoa, that was a lot. Anyway, I've successfully put this board up.

And that's just about it for this one. So let's move to the next lesson.