perkins Posted July 6, 2007 Share Posted July 6, 2007 I have searched for quite a while but havent found anything so if there is a toppic about this already i apologize. I am very curious how to achieve this kind of lighting effect. I have a class assignment that i am shooting tomorrow evening and i cant seem to figure it out enough to be satisfied with my results. Any advice? http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i174/mischieftech/P7060064.jpg I gather there is a hair/highlight light and a drastically underpowered fill light to achieve the dark front. But ive tried this on my own and am just not getting what i think it should be. Ive asked another forum and a few of them have said they think it is simple sunlight from a skylight type source... your thoughts? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perkins Posted July 6, 2007 Author Share Posted July 6, 2007 sorry about the link... http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i174/mischieftech/P7060064.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greg jansen Posted July 6, 2007 Share Posted July 6, 2007 Looks like an overhead light for majority of the fill. Hard to tell from the scan, but my guess would be that there was plenty of ambient light in the room. So, expose for the ambient light, have the overhead and slightly behind light one stop over. Part of the look you are seeing was done in Photoshop. Desturated quite a bit, other color adjustments. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greg jansen Posted July 6, 2007 Share Posted July 6, 2007 Could be a skylight, too. My guess is that no frontal fill was used. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike_earussi1 Posted July 6, 2007 Share Posted July 6, 2007 If you follow the path of the light from the top of her head to her leg you can see that there is an overhead spot light used at an angle slightly behind her head. Her head is blocking the light from her body but her leg sticks out enough to be exposed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ellis_vener_photography Posted July 6, 2007 Share Posted July 6, 2007 Beauty dish, maybe with a grid, but not a hard spot light. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike_earussi1 Posted July 6, 2007 Share Posted July 6, 2007 If I were going to duplicate this shot cheaply I would get one of those silver clip-on lamp holders from the hardware store and put a par 30 spot light in it and mount it about 5'-10' above and slightly behind her. And if you need any more light on her face/body just use a half sheet of white foamcore as a reflector just in front of the camera. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
derek_stanton2 Posted July 7, 2007 Share Posted July 7, 2007 Show us the other pages in the spread/series. They're probably all shot with the same lighting scheme, and might reveal more information than just this single image. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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