The Ashley Experiment
Posted on 11. Dec, 2008 by Terry Reinert in Photography
Earlier this week I got together with Robert Vanelli to experiment with some new lighting setups. We recruited Ashley to be our subject for the shoot and we played with different settings to see what we could produce with the equipment we had on hand. We played with three different setups and tweaks each one as we went. The photos and explanation below is from the second major setup we played with.
The lighting that was used to capture these images is shown in the lighting diagram below. We used a light meter to set the lights to exposure the front of Ashley for 1/125 sec @ f/8 and the back of her head (the hair light) one full stop above the front. The background remained unlit so that it would appear completely black in the photos. To the right of the camera we had a strobe firing through a sheer white material (to feather the light) and we used that strobe on some images but not others. I cannot recall which photos it was on for and which it was off.
Not a whole lot was done during the post processing of these images. I used Adobe Lightroom 2.2 to do the initial develop tweaks for the RAW conversion. Then I exported them to Adobe Photoshop CS3, cleaned up a few small blemishes, and added the “beauty border” as I call it. Then I resized them for web display (72dpi), ran a final unsharp mask, and saved them off. I prefer this method of creating images to the “No worries, I’ll just fix it all in Photoshop” mentatlity! It is much much better to nail the lighting when you take the shot so you only spend 2-5 minutes in Photoshop instead of 45+ minutes!
All images shot with a Canon 5D / 28-135mm IS lens as per the lighting diagram above.
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