mark liddell

I've been asked by a friend to do a sexy/fashion-eque shot of her,

she wants it full length, in

colour and of her lying on a grand piano (she's a music student).

Here are the poses I'm thinking of using:

http://www.fotosearch.com/comp/IGS/IGS193/IS059-006.jpg

http://www.fotosearch.com/comp/DGV/DGV419/692024.jpg

I'm usually a landscape guy and I have only ever done some portrait

pics with window light and reflectors. I've got access to two 250w

strobes, 2 (with modeling lights), 2 white umbrellas, maybe a

softbox, a background roll and a flash meter. I have a mamiya rb67

with 90mm and 180mm lenses, a nikon FM with 50mm and 135mm, a good

tripod and maybe access to a canon D300. The room with the piano has

no windows and is pretty big.

I'm undecided as to wheather to shoot astia or reala, it might be

hard to get the detail of the black piano with slide though, so I'm

leaning towards reala. Any better sugesstions? The end result will

be prints and I expect there to be some retouching in photoshop so

the slides/negs will have to be scanned.

I'm going to shoot with both the mamiya and the nikon since from my

experiance with portriats I have to shoot a lot of film to get a

shot with the right expression/look and I can't afford the film and

the price for scanning and printing to shoot 70 frames of 120. If I

can get the D300 and work out beforehand how to use it it will help

me check the lighting.

My main hurdle is the lighting setup, I don't really have a clue as

to what setup to use for a model lying down? Which lenses should I

use for the nikon and the mamiya?

Any help with this would be of great! If I mess it up I can always

re-shoot but I'd rather not have to.