i've been getting bored with desaturated things here lately, so i decided to pursue doing a really strong background color gradient for a change. i have a roll of white seamless paper in my living room, but i usually only use it as a 3/4 backdrop, since pulling it out can be such a pain.
the biggest problem i encountered on this shot was getting enough distance between myself and the background to maintain separate lighting situations. i didn't want key light to spill from the front to the back, or blue background light to spill from the back to the front. the key to keeping things separate is distance, or if you don't have distance, you can gobo it.
luckily our living room is just long enough to do the job. i decided i wanted the key light gridded.... so that i'm sortof half silhouette and half properly exposed. i used a reflector to fill a bit on the dark side of my face, and let everything under my arms go to black. the blue background lights were set to fill with the center just slightly hotter than the sides, and i set up a gridded flash flying in the middle to make the clean center glow.
all in all, it came out allright. i would like the glow to be a bit tighter, and maybe the blue not quite so saturated, but then again, i did this so i would have some color up on the blog again, so maybe not......
i guess i'm ready to start shooting cheesy glamour stuff now.
setup shot:
