Saturday, 21 January 2012

One hotel room - lots of different styles.

Today I thought I'd share how you can get quite a few different styles into one shoot. Admittedly the model and I were there for about 3.5hours (not including unloading/loading the car), but I think we managed quite a few different styles from one session.


Firstly a studio strip-softbox firing along the length of the bed. No other lighting at all. You can actually see the band of light across the model. I liked the way this made the background darker and gave interesting shadows across the shot.

Canon EOS-1D Mark III, f/5.6 @ 35 mm, 1/125, ISO 100

Next, was yesterday's main blog shot using a large octabox

Canon EOS-1D Mark III, f/5.6 @ 50 mm, 1/125, ISO 100

For this shot I had Hannah stand on the bed and I fired the strip box almost parallel to the wall.

Canon EOS-1D Mark III, f/5.6 @ 50 mm, 1/125, ISO 100


Now we setup a studio with white backdrop for more tradional portraits. First one was lit by a strip softbox with two gridded reflectors on the hair - one each side and from above. As there was no light on the background it simply went mid-grey in tone. I may photoshop out the creases at some point!

Canon EOS-1Ds Mark II, f/10 @ 102 mm, 1/125, ISO 100

Changed to a black background and beauty dish (40cm) for this shot.

Canon EOS-1D Mark III, f/11 @ 50 mm, 1/125, ISO 100

For this one there was a strip softbox camera left and a gridded reflector giving a pool of light camera right.




Last shot in the standard studio setup   - octabox as the main light behind and above camera (slightly to the left), strip softbox as a rimlight firing in from 45 degrees behind the model.
Canon EOS-1D Mark III, f/6.3 @ 50 mm, 1/125, ISO 100


Another one against the wall - this time bring the strip softbox out further and angling in to the model - about 45 degrees from the line of the wall.

Canon EOS-1D Mark III, f/6.3 @ 50 mm, 1/125, ISO 100


Finally using the natura light in the bathroom + a little fill from an on-camera 580EXII

Canon EOS-1Ds Mark II, f/2 @ 35 mm, 1/640, ISO 400, Flash


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