i saw a photography blog recently that had a photographer shooting celebrities, and he had, all on camera right, a softbox, a beauty dish, and a small softbox. one above the other, the small softbox for uplighting, the beauty dish for directional, and the large softbox for his main.
he didn't explain any of it, but i thought it was great, the way he was essentially creating this extra large wrapping light source on camera right. light was hitting his subjects from slightly above, from their left, and from slightly below. and the effect was wonderful. it looked like his subject was glowing almost. you couldn't easily tell where the light source was coming from, it almost seemed to be coming from within.
so that's what i wanted to do with this picture. i set up a silver reflective 42" umbrella high camera right, my homemade beauty dish level with my face, camera right and my lumiquest sb3 on axis with the camera, just below frame. here, this is the basic setup, just imagine a silver reflective high camera right:
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| From tim's 365 (this is my year) |
that's my beauty dish on the right, and the top of the lumiquest sb3 at the bottom... and of course my awesome gym shorts complete the ensemble.
i was planning on using the reflective 42" as my main light source, and set it to 1/4 power initially, but then i decided i liked the beauty dish to be stronger in the mix, so i powered that up to full, and let the 1/4 silver umbrella work mostly as a fill. and of course, the sb3 is my uplight.
the camera is propped on a bookshelf, so there's not a lot of great focusing going on. i put a vignette on in lightroom, and darkened some pictures we still haven't hung up in photoshop. that's it. you want more info? check the metadata. i'm out.
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