so, i was thinking that i have in the past set up two from behind hard light sources that come over the shoulder and "edge" out both sides of the face. you mix that with a soft light source (either reflective, or an umbrella / softbox) and you get a very nice effect. for today i wanted to do something similar, but have the light be connected at the bottom.... making sortof a U of light around my face/jaw. a chinstrap, if you will.
so, setting up the sidelights... not hard. took about 30 seconds. for the under part, it was a bit trickier. i set an sb-28 on the floor, pointed up at my chest, and then rubberbanded a couple of pieces of notebook paper around it as a gobo. i was worried that too much light would hit my (otherwise not-very-illuminated) face from that unflattering up angle. so i wrapped the paper around it, and made sure when i sat down i couldn't see the flash head from where my head was.
so, most of the flash on the ground is going up into my chest. this would have been a problem if i was wearing a white or light colored shirt, but as the case happened to be, dark blue tshirt for the win.
then i set up a reflector camera left to throw some light on my face.... it's no fun if it's completely in shadow, after all. i like it. it's like hard light all around, little island of soft light in the middle.
the setup shot shows a golden reflector bouncing light back into my face, that's something i experimented with towards the end, when i put on my hood and wanted an evil monk type look. but this shot was using just a silver/white reflector, not gold.
setup shot:
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