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Behind the Scenes: James Bond's Ingenious Dual Umbrella Photography Technique

On this Profoto video professional fashion and beauty photographer Andrea Belluso takes us behind the scenes of a shoot with a James Bond style model and two Profoto umbrellas.

For the shoot Belluso picked the Profoto Umbrella Deep (which comes in two sizes – L and XL), this gives a more focused look with less spills to the light than conventional umbrellas. Belluso used the large umbrella on his model while the XL was used on the background to cover more area. During the video Belluso also demonstrates the zoom function of the umbrellas which helps you focus the light even more.

As always, you can find many more behind the scenes videos on the BTS section here on LensVid as well as many more lighting videos on our photography lighting section.


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