I’m really impressed by how simple-looking gadgets can have such a massive impact on the look of footage. Take the sun-shade reflectors I keep talking about. Now I have the photos to prove that they work. Methinks the look below would have been impossible without the reflectors, or artificial light.

There’s a variety of these sun-shades that have a silver foil on one side, and gold foil on the other side. Those would have been perfect for these shoots, because I have a feeling that the gold foil would cast a warmer, gold-ish light on the subject.

For whatever reason, they were not in stock – so we had to be content with silver-on-0ne-side, silly-illustration-on-the-other-side varieties (we could have had kinky beach babe illustrations, we chose Santa and some rubber duckies instead).

Using the Reflectors:

1. Get some dork to hold them in place:

2. Place them directly opposite to the sun’s rays, below the subject:

Subject without:

and with reflector:

Cooool!