Fashion Shoot at Garage Studios with SJ
May 8, 2009
The wonderful model SJ came down the studio this week for a shoot with DarkDaze armed with a few bags of clothes from the new collection by New York based label Mishka, you can see their Lookbook here.
SJ wanted something that would fit in with the simple Lookbook style that they already had- but have something fresh and new. We took one of the old flats from a previous set, and shredded the wallpaper down to give a nice texture and to have a little change up from a plain white breeze block wall. SJ sorted out her own her and make-up on this shoot, as it was more about her and the clothes, rather than some big ideas behind the shoot. She is an incredibly photogenic model, you know one of the models that the camera just loves and we had a blast shooting this.
SJ Whiteley modelling Mishka new collection by DarkDaze
Tash and I set two Bowens 500w to bounce off the ceiling boards to give a little lift to the room, getting a meter reading of about f5.6 of each light. This allowed an even fall off across the frame, and then we fired up a single monobloc pointed straight at the model, just slightly left of camera, with approx reading of f11. Its a clean but fairly high contrast light that gives a nice shadow with a hard edge down one side of the model, and then we added a snooted head with f5.6 of light aimed under the chin, just to give a lift to the shadows- this also allowed us to shoot SJ wearing some of the New Era caps without a big shadow falling across her face.
SJ Whiteley modelling Mishka new collection- wide setup shot at Garage studios
SJ Whiteley modelling Mishka new collection- wide setup shot at Garage studio
We shot the final sets at f11, a nice clean simple set-up that allow SJ to move around freely and without us having to worry about any tricky shadows appearing. Probably the funniest and easiest shoot Tash and I have done, and it definitely shows in the images, SJ looks amazing but without anything being too forced or posed. I will post a few more images into this blog when we have sent them off to her to check. If you want to catch up with SJ then check her myspace, she’s amazing.
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This is one of the best setup posts so far. Really useful.
I wish I had seen this yesterday morning. Baseball caps are always the bane of my shooting for bands and I was going through my head thinking of how best to up-light to make sure faces weren’t obscured by peaks.
Also good to know what kind of fstop you look for to get something quite direct like this in.