Sunday, September 20, 2009

day 44 - head shot setup



this is a really solid setup for doing head shots. a lot of light for the subject, not alot for the background. it's just one strobe, high camera right into a shoot through umbrella, with two reflectors, one horizontal and one vertical forming basically half of a box for the light to bounce off of.

so you're getting a quick and clean uplight and opposite side light, each one slightly less intense than the main light. it makes for a really soft-ish light that still has some directionality.

you can't really use this for anything more than a head and shoulders shot, though. as the setup shot shows, there's a lot of equipment in the way of the rest of the figure.

setup shot:

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