I came in this morning on a Sunday to do a test shoot with my model Annie and to help assist with her shoot afterwards. I was in a much smaller studio this time so this did affect the lighting set up and also how to photo's came out. I had spoken to Peter O'keefe about my lighting and I showed him my test shoot photo's and he said that I could experiment with the lighting by adding more to light up the white background. This would make the headdress stand out more and create a separation between the white back ground and headdress. So I decided to try this Idea. I didn't make up my model for this test shoot as it was a quick lighting experiment so I just used the time to play with the lighting.
I created the same lighting structure but I moved it further away from the background and added some soft boxes facing the background. This was a very small space so It didn't quite work the way it was supposed to but It was a very good experiment and I could see how it would work in a bigger studio. I used the same camera settings as I did in the previous test shoot as I had recorded them to use in these shoots.
As you can see from the top row of photos I had to adjust the lighting to get it just right. I adjust the power of the flash first and then adjusted the aperture on the camera if needed.
I love how porcelain and crisp the skin quality is in this light and how you can see everything. The lighting is highlighting different parts of her body and I love the contrast between Annie and the background. This lighting is something I will use in the future for more shoots as I loved the outcome. However I will know for the next time that I will need a bigger studio as this was too small for this large scale set up. I do also want to try this for my final shoot shoot to see how this comes out.
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