The White Wall shoot at Garage Studios
April 20, 2009
This fashion editorial was shot by DD at Garage Studios last week. The final format is meant to read across the page as 8 images, but due to most computer screen formats it looks a bit odd like that so I have stacked it on top as 2 rows.
The full line up
The brilliant models are Joe, James, Louie, Martha, Saoirse, Sally, Elin and Sophie.
All styling by Stevi and Em of Ophelia Fancy
The lighting in this is very simple, a beauty dish and a snoot at slight camera left pointing straight at the models. The beauty dish was slightly higher than the snoot, but at a fairly flat angle, approx head height, this punches a nice little shadow and helps hold the model in place.
The beauty dish was metered at around f8 (on its own) and the Snoot at f11 (on its own). There is a white bounce polyboard directly at the right of the frame which just adds a little lift to the plug socket area, right of frame to increase the overall flat look of the background. . The beauty dish gives a nice fill light, its not a really hard edged shadow when compared to an open metal reflector, but has more edge to it than a softbox. We then powered through that with a snoot pointed at the models head, probably a foot below shoulder height and angled upwards as we wanted a slight ‘doubling’ of the shadows. This should draw more attention to the subjects face. Camera setting was f11. This gave extra lift to the face and a real clean look. The MUA was asked to do a very clean/nude looking make-up but flawless skin.
After going strobe crazy for a while DarkDaze is now trying to stick to some simple lighting set-ups. You can see another 2 light below…..
Sally Sheer editorial. (2 light set-up)
In this set up I had a snooted Bowens 500w head bang onto the face (overexposed by a 1/3 or so), and a little fill from above- from another snoot angled down on the models head so as to not hit the background- which the model was leaning up against- nothing tricky. Its very easy to copy this set-up (if you like them that is) with speedlights or strobes, you dont need a lot of space as the light is very direct and doesnt need to bounce, just remember that the longer the lens you shoot on, or more specifically the further you can get back from the subject the more flattering the models features will be.
If you do try something like this and it works for you then let us know at the mail
damn thats cool with girls in the same pose