Christopher Grey's Lighting Techniques for Beauty and Glamour Photography by Grey Christopher

Author:Grey, Christopher [Grey, Christopher]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-60895-042-3
Publisher: Amherst Media, Inc.
Published: 2010-08-14T16:00:00+00:00

UNDERLIGHT AS THE MAIN LIGHT

This technique will work best if your model angles her head down, toward the underlight.

I began by setting my HiLite background behind where my model would be standing. In a bit of reverse engineering, I powered up the HiLite first, to a perfect f/16. This meant that my main light, a combination of two lights, would need to equal f/11 so the background would overexpose by 1 stop.

IMAGE 13.4.

The HiLite is a very large softbox, lit by strobes that are inserted into its sides. It produces a very even light image 13.4. over its entire surface and is used to create a white background with light that wraps around the sides of a subject. You might also try using a large softbox, or perhaps something like an Octobank, to get a similar look. See image 13.4.

After my target f-stop had been established, I set a 2x2-foot softbox on a short stand on the floor, aiming it up to my model’s face. The effect wasn’t particularly unattractive, but it did have a bit of a bad horror movie look to it. I metered for the correct f-stop, a –⅓ f-stop off/10. Why f/10? As just one more affirmation of the fact that the effects of light are cumulative. I knew that when I added the next light, the combination of the two could easily be tweaked to f/11, the target aperture. See image 13.5.

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