Hallo all:
I have had many calls for explaining my lighting set ups, so this week I post a photo I shot along with a diagram. Check it out!
This is a pretty basic 5 light shot on white seamless background. Begin with choosing your DOF. Add a stop for the background lighting, an adjustment for the key (in this case, the profoto strip) to get it to pop at your selected f stop (5.6), torque the snoot to a stop or two above, depending on grid and snoot effect, and make the fill 5.6 or just below. I bracketed exposures and always fine tune the profoto packs, clicking them up or down 1/10th or more to get some very cool and subtle changes. The diagram shows my starting point for the lighting and is probably very close to how the image was shot. A starting point from which to dive off.
Remember, if you're shooting a model that likes to move, the closer they get to the light, the more they're gonna get exposed. Cool. Pretty dynamic!
Finally, the image was processed through Flexcolor (Hasselblad's proprietary software app) and then converted to a B and W, using Greg Gorman's action. A mild glam blur was added and finally, an overlay layer was added and hit with a pink/blue color gradient, opacitized to taste.
Happy first week of December,
Wick
Wick Beavers Photographer
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