Two Lights

Day 210 of 365

"Two Lights"

 

Today's portrait was once again inspired by an image I recently viewed.......and once again, it went in a different direction. The trick would be how to get the background to go deep red. I stacked a few gels on my strobe, but was unable to get that quality of red. I then realized that I had my old red filter for my black and white work back in the days of film. I slapped the filter on my 50mm lens, and screwed that on to my Light Blaster. Boom.......a red spotlight!! Once that was addressed, I just had to snoot and grid a speedlight with a couple of CTB gels. The speedlight is just out of frame at camera-right, focused on our model's eyes. I had her put her hair up, as I wanted to accentuate her neck. We took seventeen exposures as I changed angles and focal lengths. We shot for maybe ten minutes, and this is the result. The vignette was not added in post...it was just the result of the focused lens. Thanks for focusing for a few minutes!!

 

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