How to Light Model's Hair for Photo Shoot

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Hi again, Rob Mitchell for Expert Village. We're moving on now. We've freed up one of our lights by using this reflector as a fill in on Nicole. It's softening all the shadows. So, where we're going to put that light now is we're going to add a hair light. This is going to separate the model from your background, particularly if you should have a dark haired girl against a dark background. You really need a hair light. In this case, what it's going to do is it's going to illuminate this side of Nicole's hair. It's going to put a nice shine on there. It's going to come down onto the shoulders too so it does add a little bit of separation. One of the things to remember when you're using a hair light, especially using a tungsten light like this, and you can see just how big this reflector is. If when I turn this light on, if it starts to reflect into the lens of the camera, you're going to get flair and it's not going to look very good. What we have to do is we have to block that flair out or block the light out that's going to bounce back into the lens of the camera. This is very simple, very easy thing to do. I just have a piece of cardboard. You can use black paper or anything like that. I'm just going to tape it right to the light here and just have it off to the side. It's going to block that light from hitting the lens in the camera and creating flair, but it still has all the light coming down on our model. Now, we have our model Nicole here. We have our key light coming in on this side. We have the reflector over on this side and here's what it looks like with the addition of the hair light. See how it's created this beautiful light coming across here. It's added a little light to the shoulders, separating her from the background and it's made a much more flattering picture. Now what we'll do is we'll take a shot of that and see how it looks. That's better.

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