Today I spent nearly seven hours with my new assisants Leigh, Loren and Heather. It was our first training day, with over two hours in the morning going through the equipment - and the rest of the day working in the studio and outside on the streets of Purley.
The guys worked so hard and they tirelessly absorbed huge amounts of information.
I wanted to use this blog to publically thank them for today and for the great way they all worked together.
The three photos below represent a fraction of the work we did. Each photo has a description of how it was taken. Click on any image to view a larger copy.
Heather: Two softboxes were used, one above, one below (in what is often referred to as a clamshell configuration). There was a small window through which the camera was able to shoot (between the softboxes).
Leigh: Above the camera, mounted on a large (Manfrotto) boom was a Bowens beauty dish. Behind Leigh (left and right) were two more lights directed towards the sides of his face. Each light was fitted with a grid to increase the harshness of the light. To prevent light spilling into the camera lens, we used two large black flags mounted on C stands. Leigh held a small reflector in front of him, to bounce light upwards and fill in some shadows.
Finally, To provide a small rim of light to the back of his head, we positioned another light immediately behind him.
Loren: Taken outside in Purley, we used Pocketwizard wireless triggers to control two Canon speedlites. One was held on the end of a long boom just above Loren's head.
On the camera I set the colour temperature to tungsten, which gave a blue tone to the ambient light, I also underexposed the ambient light by two stops. The speedlite was fitted with an orange gel, to colour-correct the light hitting Loren and was mounted inside a Lastolite Ezybox.
A second Speedlite was handheld by Leigh just out of sight (behind Loren and to the right of camera). This was used to illuminate the passing bus. The beam was zoomed to 24mm, to give a wide spread of light.
Camera used throughout was a Canon EOS 1D MkIV with a Canon 70-200mm f2.8 lens.
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