Recycled Fashion Shoot Test
Recently there was a shooting session held at my studio here in Austin, Texas. The studio, named ATX Photography & Rental studio, worked with Jessica Clark to build sets out of recycled materials, and she also designed outfits. Here you can see a bubble wrap backdrop and a newspaper made head piece. Blue, our model, was standing in for me while I tested lights.
In the background I put up too Lowel hot lights with colored gels to create some interesting texture with the colors. If you stood to the right side, the bubble wrap looked red, but if you stood to the left side the gel there looked purple. Because the "bubbles" are rounded, they reflected the color gel of the side you were standing most on, giving a color shift affect. Pretty neat.
From there, I had an off camera lighting setup in the front. A 20x30" softbox boomed above and firing down at a slight angle. From here, Blue could move backward and forward to create different looks being in the direct light, or standing off in a feathered light. All were fired with the Phottix remote transmitter/receivers. WIthout needing to move gear, we could have multiple colored backdrops and effects, very simply.
I love sessions like this because it's fun for everyone attending and we get to challenge some of the norms that you have to use expensive equipment and work in a more formal way.
Post processing was handled in Photoshop to add a little reduced contrast and blurring that I thought complimented the style.
Recycled Fashion Shoot Test
Recently there was a shooting session held at my studio here in Austin, Texas. The studio, named ATX Photography & Rental studio, worked with Jessica Clark to build sets out of recycled materials, and she also designed outfits. Here you can see a bubble wrap backdrop and a newspaper made head piece. Blue, our model, was standing in for me while I tested lights.
In the background I put up too Lowel hot lights with colored gels to create some interesting texture with the colors. If you stood to the right side, the bubble wrap looked red, but if you stood to the left side the gel there looked purple. Because the "bubbles" are rounded, they reflected the color gel of the side you were standing most on, giving a color shift affect. Pretty neat.
From there, I had an off camera lighting setup in the front. A 20x30" softbox boomed above and firing down at a slight angle. From here, Blue could move backward and forward to create different looks being in the direct light, or standing off in a feathered light. All were fired with the Phottix remote transmitter/receivers. WIthout needing to move gear, we could have multiple colored backdrops and effects, very simply.
I love sessions like this because it's fun for everyone attending and we get to challenge some of the norms that you have to use expensive equipment and work in a more formal way.
Post processing was handled in Photoshop to add a little reduced contrast and blurring that I thought complimented the style.