Music Video in Japan of the artist Edwin Rivera | Shot and directed by Rodrigo Leyva

Here's a music video that I shot and directed in Japan on October 2012, it was an amazing experience and I hope you guys like it!

Cheers,
Rodrigo Leyva
www.valeystudio.com
www.rodrigoleyva.com

Wedding Session | Shooting with hard sunlight | Lighting control

Last week I had the pleasure of working with a great couple in Rosarito, Mexico at Calafia Hotel.

The session was at 1pm, bright and sunny day, the sun was hitting really hard but it was the only available time to shoot the wedding session.

I'm sure photographer's have had that problem before when you have to shoot in the middle of the day when the sun is at it's worse for pictures. So what I recommend to do is to look for the shadows and spots of light. Play with the shadows, if you have speedlights with radio slaves you could also use them at it's max power to compensate the ambient light but this will depend on what you want on the background.

In this case I ended up using the sun as my main source of light, posing towards the light and playing with the shadows, when your models start closing your eyes because of the sun just make them close their eyes all the way and ask them to relax their eyebrows right before the shot. I did use speedlights to capture the ocean on the background on some shots.

Take advantage of the hard light because hard shadows come along with it, I love playing with shadows because you can create high impact pictures. In the following link you will find the gallery of the pictures I was able to capture, good luck guys!

CLICK HERE for full Gallery of wedding session

Photography: Rodrigo Leyva | Valey Studio

www.valeystudio.com

www.rodrigoleyva.com