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Help with lighting setup
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). The shot will be facing the piano with her lying on top above teh keys. 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 (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. |
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Help with lighting setup
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). The shot will be facing the piano with her lying on top above teh keys. 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 (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. well first lets look at the photos you site as an example (and starting this way, either from web or tearing out photos and ads from magazines is a great way to start) you have subjects lying down on a large surface lit by? seems like it could be a large window, or skylight in the other. so take your flash and bounce off the ceiling, this will give a large light source from overhead, heck depending on how high the ceiling is I might start with the heads on the floor so they hit a larger area over the subject area. or bounce off a side wall. with a large soft light you won't have to worry about the piano. heck they always look like a large black slab. and black is black, the only way to get some sense of shape and detail is put a large soft light on it and let the texture, and even if it is a very smooth finish the reflection of a huge soft light will reveal the shape of it. see if you can borrow a polaroid back for your RB. they are probably cheap enough on ebay now. this reply is echoed to the z-prophoto mailing list at yahoogroups.com |
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Help with lighting setup
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with a large soft light you won't have to worry about the piano. heck they always look like a large black slab. and black is black, the only way to get some sense of shape and detail is put a large soft light on it and let the texture, "let the texture" -this doesn't quite make sense to me... Did you mean "light the texture" or, perhaps, "let the texture ______" (let the texture do something/you fill in the blank). Could you please explain? Thanks :-). and even if it is a very smooth finish the reflection of a huge soft light will reveal the shape of it. Check out my photos at "LEWISVISION": http://members.aol.com/Lewisvisn/home.htm Remove "nospam" to reply ***DUE TO SPAM, I NOW BLOCK ALL E-MAIL NOT ON MY LIST, TO BE ADDED TO MY LIST, PING ME ON THE NEWSGROUP. SORRY FOR THE INCONVENIENCE. :-) *** |
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Help with lighting setup
"Lewis Lang" wrote in message ... BIG SNIPS with a large soft light you won't have to worry about the piano. heck they always look like a large black slab. and black is black, the only way to get some sense of shape and detail is put a large soft light on it and let the texture, "let the texture" -this doesn't quite make sense to me... Did you mean "light the texture" or, perhaps, "let the texture ______" (let the texture do something/you fill in the blank). Could you please explain? Thanks :-). and even if it is a very smooth finish the reflection of a huge soft light will reveal the shape of it. let the texture ______" reveal itself. Photograph an 8 ball with a flat light and you only see a round thing with a highlight in the middle, put it on the side an you will have a specular highlight and maybe some differentiation between the highlight and shadow side. put a big soft light on it and the spread of the specular highlight from a blocked up pin point to a large soft highlight will reveal more information to the eye about the shape of it, and the texture, or lack of it, will tell us what it is. now put a purse or some shoes there. Each bump of texture will reveal itself by the highlight. Check out my photos at "LEWISVISION": http://members.aol.com/Lewisvisn/home.htm Remove "nospam" to reply ***DUE TO SPAM, I NOW BLOCK ALL E-MAIL NOT ON MY LIST, TO BE ADDED TO MY LIST, PING ME ON THE NEWSGROUP. SORRY FOR THE INCONVENIENCE. :-) *** |
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