experimental shoot today. Because I had
no idea where to find some shiny metal
like backgrounds me, the model and my
assistant team drove to a shopping mall
to take some cool photos in an elevator.
I didn't want to shoot normal fashion
photos today, I wanted to do something
different. So three 'key' ideas came
into my head. Color key, low key and
high key. I personally hate color key
and I have no idea why people like it
that much. Low key, though interesting
is really to boring for a location like
that. So all that was left was high key.
I know some of the trolls in the web will
be all like "wahh, why did you overexpose
that picture so much", "she has a beautiful
face don't throw that much light on it" -
you know what? I don't care, so shut up.
Let's as always start of with the final
picture, post processing really wasn't too
much. A little contrast, pushed the blacks
sized an sharpened it. That's all.
So what happened here? First of all I'll
start with the camera (EOS 7D) settings.
A 50mm lense set to f/4 for best sharpness
and still some blur in the background.
1/200 fastest exposure time possible. Yeah,
some people don't get that, but even high
key is shot with short exposure times, you
push the picture with higher flash outputs
and not brighten the whole thing up.
iso125, I was going to use 100, but then
realized that the extra 25 gave me some
more light on her skin.
But the most important items today were
the flashguns. I used 3. My master flash
unit in my great octabox connected with
a 5 yard e-ttl cable. The octabox is very
important in this setting, check the reflection
in the models eyes in the portrait above,
nicely round you will never achieve that
reflection with a square softbox! One YN-460 II
was right behind/under her set to 1/32 to
throw some light onto her arms (from downside)
and also to illuminate the background.
One YN-460 II was in front of her (also on
the ground) to give me some detail in her black
top (1/16).
But what makes this picture highkey now?
Well, the master unit was auto e-ttl, but you
can adjust the output power with something
called flash exposure compensation. And I
simply told my flash to add 2 stops of light.
So FEV+2. Why not one? Because then it wouldn't
be enough light to have her skin all white. Why
not three? Because I wanted to have some detail
in her hair and eyes left.
Let's take a look at the setup photo.
Very important in this shot are assistants.
First of all I needed one to keep the elevator
door from closing (the guy with the cool hat).
And then one to hold the boomstick with the light
exactly in the right spot, because the shadow of
the nose needs to be very very precisely. A
'butterfly-shadow' was desired (shadow right
under her nose) and one can only achieve that,
when having the octabox directly above the model
in perfect symmetry. Take a look at the shot
down here (somewhere) the shadow under her nose
is very even.
The light from the octabox is enough to illuminate
the background, and because thats all silver, the
whole elevator works like an extremely huge reflector.
Thanks to my team, we got some very cool pictures,
if there are any question feel free to contact me.
Thanks for reading,
Jo Thomas
www.jothomasphotography.com
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