Week 22 – The Small Space Shot
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After last week’s forest photo I came back home for a tighter head-shot. A bit of a style come back. I wanted to try out the very tight, small space set-up that could get great results. I got inspired by Zack Arias a bit, however I haven’t watched all of CreativeLive this weekend. And no, Zack did not show me the set-up that I just had to check, nope.
What he said was “you need to know your equipment“, which reminded me that I haven’t shot silver reflective umbrella in a long time. And here I did. In 3 square meters.
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The light source is from the left, so other side than I’m looking at. This way you can blow the skin a bit without loosing eyes. The reflector on the other side opens shadows and brings some light back to the eyes.
50mm, 1/400s, f8, ISO 200
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Thanks for stopping by. See you soon next week.
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I used a very similar setup to shoot this: http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/zAQer58LdGMrET7fdhNdYg?feat=directlink
My only addition was a bare flash up high behind the model.
Great job!
Thanks Alex. I think it’s a bit different look, although I have used somehow more similar set-up to the one you showed in Week 5.
Have you used the fill in your shot? Couse when using the back 45/45 hard light I don’t add the additional fill, as I like the hard light to accentuate the texture on the darker side of face. That’s at least what I like;)
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