day 80 - bit of the old hard and soft

yeah, i'm really running out of blog post titles up there.

anyways. for this one i thought i'd work the premise alluded to in the last post... namely, hard light plus reflector equals magic. so i used the same hard light from day 79 (conveniently still set up in the living room) and set up a reflector in a convenient spot (silver side this time, for a change of pace), took a few shots, and there it is.

i think my favorite thing about this one is that my ear throws a shadow that looks like really thin but dark sideburns. like i took a marker and drew them on for no reason.

and who's to say i didn't?

thing of setup interest in this shot: i was getting too much light on my background. usually i'll just move the lights away from the background..... problem solved. this time however i went with the gobo approach. i grabbed a thick piece of paper and a rubberband, and stuck it to the side of the flash so that it blocks light from hitting my wall back there. it also created that cool light control gradient thing you can see better in the setup shot.

enjoy!

setup shot: