I've got my big reflector.

The fill light is coming from a silver reflector,

I will hit the black reflector in the background.

I've got lightstands to stabilize my reflector somewhere over here.

What if we collect the sun with a large reflector

The camera is shooting through the crack between the umbrella and the reflector.

To achieve that I will use my reflector, which got a black side.

So I will put this reflector material, the black side of it, right over here.

As much fill as possible. The reflector is roughly at 45 degrees pointing towards her face.

And what you see there in that tissue section, in fact, is you see that reflector tape.

In my case I had the light stand over here and the reflector was on the lower end

Now sometimes, in some occassions the keyboard or parts of the laptop might double as an additional reflector.

And the angle of this reflector will determine how much or not so much fill light we actually have.

They are quite shiny, so this aluminum doubles as a reflector and makes light source a little bit bigger.

I just have to remove this reflector, turn this speedlight around, pull out the built in diffuser so that it zooms out to 14 mm.

Or sometimes we just used a reflector the camera was on f 8 and on ISO 160 in order to produce as little noise as possible.

Before the light bulb was invented, people had figured out how to put a reflector behind it, focus it a little bit put lenses in front of it, focus it a little bit better.

So we created a genetic algorithm to try this out, we made a model in Excel of a multisurface reflector, and an amazing thing evolved, literally, from trying a billion cycles, a billion different attempts, with a fitness function that defined how can you collect the most light, from the most angles, over a day, from the sun.

From behind, from 10 o' clock it will make an outline of light around your model and if you completely go around to 12 o' clock then there 's back lighting your model is a silhouette... unless you 've put up a reflector let 's say at 7 o 'clock right next to the camera and reflect a lot of light back.