set up some lights, turn on a fan, toss a scarf in the air, and pull the trigger. it's photography gold, i say. i don't actually say that, by the way. it's just a random thought i had, figured i'd try it out. i chose this particular shot because it reminded me of some cephalopod you'd see waving appendages in the ocean or something.
the light pattern on the wall was a bit tricky.... i wanted to use a white shoot-through umbrella for the big relative size of light source it would give me, but it always has that hard edge where raw light spills past the edge of the umbrella fabric and hits the background.
so, to solve that, i double diffused it. set up the white shoot=through, and then affixed my lumiquest sb-3 to the flash behind the umbrella. so light comes out the flash, goes through the sb-3, then goes on into the umbrella. lost some light doing that, but it created the double shadow/diagonal light gradient across the background that you see there. i thought it was a cool effect, diagonal lines add a feeling of tension, and i dig that in this image.
setup shot:
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