Dissection of a shot.
Posted by Colin | Filed under Uncategorized
I’ve been asked how I lit this, so here is a dissection.
Lighting was quite simple and, I’m sure, not hard to figure out. I had one White Lightning X1600 in a medium softbox to her left and one bare X1600 to her right. Simple enough, eh (my Canadian heritage shows through)?
That was the easy part. The hard part was using Photoshop to combine the studio shot of Aenux with these two other photos I took in Seattle.
The background:
The roof:
The background picture is pretty self-explanatory but the roof may not be, so let me elaborate. Instead of simply having the model in front of the cloudy building-scape I felt it would be better to ‘ground’ her on top of something. I searched high and low for a photo that matched my criteria. I couldn’t find anything but in one of those ‘ah hah’ moments I remembered the photo of the beautiful view I had from my Seattle hotel room. I used a small section of the nice wet roof across the alley.
Sliced n’ diced, did some color matching and voila…. the final composite shot.
January 20th, 2009 at 4:02 pm
Great shot! Very nice work in post and the lighting may be simple, but its quite effective! Found this post thru your flickr stream. =)