Bert Stephani
erika-workshop-7
BELGIUM - Zaventem
Michael (www.mjm.hk) asked me to do a little one-on-one workshop with him about working Strobist-style (lighting with small flashes). Michael wanted to learn some tricks about lighting and just being creative with the environment.
I asked my friend, muse and fantastic model Erika to be the subject of our experiments.
Just to make it clear, I didn't shoot these images, Michael did.
LIGHTING INFO:
We placed a bare Vivitar 285HV (at half power I think) on my driveway and aimed it towards a dark gray wall in my office through the blinds of the window. Because it was raining, I put a plastic freezer bag over the flash.
For this shot we lit Erika separately to avoid the blinds pattern on her face. I held a reflector between the backgroundlight and Erika to avoid any spill light on her. We used another Vivitar with a gridspot from camera left to light Erika.
We wanted to make the background light to be blueish/moonlit. Instead of venturing in to the rain and putting a blue gel on the background flash, we just put a CTO (orange) gel on the main light and changed the white balance to get correct skintones with the orange gel. That makes the neutral white background light shift to blue.
PHOTO BY MICHAEL MILLIGAN- ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
erika-workshop-7
BELGIUM - Zaventem
Michael (www.mjm.hk) asked me to do a little one-on-one workshop with him about working Strobist-style (lighting with small flashes). Michael wanted to learn some tricks about lighting and just being creative with the environment.
I asked my friend, muse and fantastic model Erika to be the subject of our experiments.
Just to make it clear, I didn't shoot these images, Michael did.
LIGHTING INFO:
We placed a bare Vivitar 285HV (at half power I think) on my driveway and aimed it towards a dark gray wall in my office through the blinds of the window. Because it was raining, I put a plastic freezer bag over the flash.
For this shot we lit Erika separately to avoid the blinds pattern on her face. I held a reflector between the backgroundlight and Erika to avoid any spill light on her. We used another Vivitar with a gridspot from camera left to light Erika.
We wanted to make the background light to be blueish/moonlit. Instead of venturing in to the rain and putting a blue gel on the background flash, we just put a CTO (orange) gel on the main light and changed the white balance to get correct skintones with the orange gel. That makes the neutral white background light shift to blue.
PHOTO BY MICHAEL MILLIGAN- ALL RIGHTS RESERVED