This picture was created using a mixture of hard and soft light, each at a different color temperature. The hard light that is illuminating the front of Jenni’s face is warmed with a CTO gel so it would play nicely with the rim/fill light, which was a tungsten bulb in a silver reflector. The uplight was a T-8 fluorescent daylight balanced tube, covered with some very thin light tan diffusion material, which was softening and warming the light very slightly. So three lights, two very warm and one cool to provide the image with that color twist that you can see.
Processing the image was a bit of a challenge for me. My usual approach to processing is to immediately desaturate the image a bit and start pulling colors out of it. But for this shot, the colors were what made the shot interesting, so I had to go in the opposite direction and boost the colors in a subtle way that wouldn’t overwhelm the image.
The chain headpiece was something else I’d never tried, and after explaining the idea to my lovely wife she gathered up all her jewelry and assembled the headdress you see here. It really makes the shot; without all that gold in the image it wouldn’t look nearly as interesting with the slight blue background and greenish fill light.
So, I’m calling this one a success. Tried several new things, and they all worked out really well. Having a great model didn’t hurt, either.
Jenni's Chains
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