Bert Stephani
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London, UNITED KINGDOM
This picture of model Nick was taken on the second day of my September 2009 2-day London workshop. Usually I leave most of the shooting to the participants on the second day but upon general request I did a short shoot with Nick to show how I communicate with models. Nick said he could use some moody 'dark' shots for his book, so that's what we went for.
LIGHTING INFO:
Nick is standing in a small tunnel, there was soft light coming from both ends of the tunnel. By trying out some different spots in the tunnel and blocking some light with a Sunbounce reflector we got the light to be pretty even on both sides of the face. The light on tunnel wall gave us a nice background with a natural vignette but it didn't provide enough separation behind Nick's head, so we used a narrow gridded speedlite to add just a touch of light on the wall behind Nick.
Check out my blog: www.bertstephani.com/blog
or our photography project: www.squeezethelime.com
20090908_ws-london_058.jpg
London, UNITED KINGDOM
This picture of model Nick was taken on the second day of my September 2009 2-day London workshop. Usually I leave most of the shooting to the participants on the second day but upon general request I did a short shoot with Nick to show how I communicate with models. Nick said he could use some moody 'dark' shots for his book, so that's what we went for.
LIGHTING INFO:
Nick is standing in a small tunnel, there was soft light coming from both ends of the tunnel. By trying out some different spots in the tunnel and blocking some light with a Sunbounce reflector we got the light to be pretty even on both sides of the face. The light on tunnel wall gave us a nice background with a natural vignette but it didn't provide enough separation behind Nick's head, so we used a narrow gridded speedlite to add just a touch of light on the wall behind Nick.
Check out my blog: www.bertstephani.com/blog
or our photography project: www.squeezethelime.com