 Hey everybody it's Craig back to here and in this video I'm going to share one simple tip with you that every outdoor portrait photographer should know. All right let's get started. Okay so that one simple tip is if you're shooting with strobes outdoors you can change the skies to become more blue in camera. So this image you're looking at right here is before so this is a raw image it's not edited and I shot this at 5500 Kelvin because that's the temperature of my strobe and it's roughly the temperature of daylight but you can see that the skies are not very blue. Now let's go to this next image here. Now what I did was I shot this at 3200 which is the tungsten setting and that makes the sky more blue and it also makes the water more blue but what you have to do is use a CTO gel that stands for color temperature orange. I'll just let you have a look at one here you can get on B&H. You can just do a simple google search for CTO full CTO gel and you get a bigger size and all I did was I took that size and I put it inside my softbox and I changed the white balance on my camera to 3200 and because the strobe is closer to the person it warms up their skin tone but the skies and the background they have that blue tone so it's a simple trick that every outdoor photographer should try if you want to capture those bluer skies the bluer water and it's a color temperature orange gel. Get one big enough that you can put inside your softbox easily that way you can take it in and out and that's what I did with this one. All right so here's a look at these images right at a camera without any retouching and you can see I shot this one on the left if I click on it you could see the temperature it was shot at 5500 Kelvin with a K and that's what I set my strobe to and I set my camera white balance to that manually and you can see it gives an overall kind of warmness to the image it looks very daylightish but you can see there's not a lot of blue in the sky and the water so what you do is you use the gel and then you set your white balance to 3200 in camera and if you look over here it was roughly 3200 and then what you can do is in post if you shoot the color checker it might be a little bit easier you can see the white shirt isn't necessarily white but what we can do is we can warm that up so we could warm it up to get the white to match the skin tone to match if you use the color checker it would probably be a little easier but you see all I did was sort of take that from 32 to 42 and let's go with about maybe 4100 and we'll see how that looks so we still have a much bluer sky and the whites are close the skin color is close so you could see by just using a gel like that you can get a little more blue on water and sky and like I said if you use the color checker it might be easier to make that adjustment and you can do this by eye as well I just sort of did it by eye and I think around 4000 it looks similar to the original shot and you can do it to taste but anyway it's a neat little trick it's easy to do and it can really enhance your outdoor portraits if you're shooting with strobe now any other tips I can think of well if you're going to be shooting at sunset where it's a warmer sky I wouldn't suggest cooling down the sky with that so I'd say anywhere from two hours before sunset or two hours after sunrise and you've got that window where you really want to emphasize those blue skies and this trick is probably perfect for you so anyway if you have any questions you can post them down below if you found this tip helpful give me a thumbs up if you're new here and you're not already a subscriber my name is Craig Bekta and if you're in a photography you should hit that subscribe button right now and also hit that bell notification because every week I release a new photography tutorial everything from portrait lighting tips to portrait retouching tips and a whole lot more so go ahead click on that subscribe button and hit that bell notification all right thanks and let's continue on with this video anyway thanks again for watching this video give me a thumbs up if you found it helpful if you have any questions about this technique you can post them down below all right I'll see you in the next video