Siegrid at Eski, originally uploaded by Gerard Maas.
MU by Sarina Mannaert (www.facebook.com/sarina.mannaert)
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Siegrid is a young model with incredible potential and hypnotizing eyes.
We had the opportunity to use a cultural center as location for this (group) photo shoot. That meant working in rooms with artwork hanging on the walls, which as inspiring as it might be, you don’t want to include in your own frame at the end.
I found this ‘clean’ corner as background and installed my setup around it. Being close to the wall helped to use the spill as background light, so I could concentrate on lighting my model.
My main goal was to make her eyes stand out. I opted to create a “surround” light scheme that ensured even illumination on her face. As it can be seen in the setup image, the main light was above her head level, a reflector on her lap would throw some of that light back towards the underside of her factions, and I wouldn’t have to worry about balancing that as I should if I had used a 3rd light instead. The second light is a side fill that I tried to place as far to the back as I could. It would add some background separation and definition to her hair.
Setup:
- 1 580EXII with battery pack in an Ezybox 80 on top.
- A Lastolite Tri-grip silver reflector below.
- 1 580EX in an Ezybox 60 to camera right.
- Although not visible in the frame, I used a small led video light to illuminate the working area and help her pupils from getting too wide.
Post processing was minor cleanup, curves and some hairdressing.