Are these done with strobes or natural light?

[elaine marie]

I have run across several beautiful web sites and blogs lately of amazing work.

I simply can not tell if they are using strobes or natural light. The light

seems to be controlled but yet so natural. I am trying to read the catch lights

but just can't figure it. Please look at these in this blog and let me know what

you think.

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Thank you Elaine

[tasha_sds]

looks like strobes. you can tell by the catchlights in the eyes

[elaine marie]

But some of the catch lights look like they could be windows to me?

[bruce levy]

You could do it with either hot lights or strobes. It's the finesse, not the equipment.

[chris_vincent2]

All flash with big big big softbox.

[pico]

Look at the pictures where the eyes' iris can bee seen and you will note that they are rather

open so the ambient light is not enough to make the picture... and the large soft box can be

seen in the reflection.

 

If you were to have this much ambient light for a high shutter speed, the eyes iris would be

unattractively small.

[elaine marie]

Thank you for eveyones help so far. The darker one of the pregnant woman sitting where only one side is lit but the background is slightly lit. Is that a back light up high and a controlled side light with a snoot or barn doors?

Thanks

 

Elaine

[joseph avalon official sit]

Lighting looks a little too artificial to be natural daylight (or HMI). I'm gonna say strobes.

 

The pregnant-woman-sitting shot looks like one light source...maybe with barn doors...or possibly two (the second being the snoot you speak of). On the other hand, all the dark could have been added with the burn tool in Photoshop. OR that interesting patch of light in the background may also have been a second light placed behind the seamless (or muslin).

[chris_vincent2]

Looks like a 3 light set up to me.

 

Two on the background with barndoors to prevent light coming back towards the camera.

 

One softbox just to the left of the camera.

[elaine marie]

Thank you Everyone,

 

Sometimes the lighting just throws me.The baby's skin looks so white I just don't understand how to get black and whites like that.

 

Elaine

[d_g5]

They are all done with studio lighting. The catchlights in the eyes reflect exactly what type of light source was used. It appears that they were all strobes in softboxes.

[kathie_jounes]

Not to be a smart aleck but drop that photog a note and ask her! Unless she is someone in your immediate area who would be considered a rival, I don't doubt that she would be glad to answer your questions.

 

Katt