Hey this is Daniel Norton,
I'm here in my studio in New York City with
Marissa and we're doing kind of another
fashion shot, and for this particular dress I had the
idea where we've got one thing here, the
dress is kind of a form-fitting dress, it
shows off the figure, it also has this
beautiful like embroidery on it... so we
want to show those things... so in order to
show the form, what I decide to do is
make it kind of a silhouette right?
So we're gonna light our back wall I have a
Profoto B1X there... I'm just gonna
blast it with light to give us a white
background right, and she's gonna...
you know because I'm in a white studio
we're getting some fill, so she's not gonna be a
complete silhouette, but it'll really
show off the shape of her body, but if we
do just that, then we're not gonna see
any of this beautiful embroidery.
So what I'm gonna do is I'm going to use
my HMI to kind of bring that in, and then we'll
add to this as we go.
So let's just start with the background,
we'll start there and we'll show you what
we got, I have the Fuji GFX 50R here,
plugged in to Capture One, and we'll get
like a nice kind of silhouette pose going on here.
I am at f/2.8, 1/30th of a second, ISO 100
I'm at a 30th because
I'm going to be using some hot lights,
and I'm gonna need that power all right,
so that's pretty good right, that gives
the shape, we can certainly see the shape
of the dress, this flat light on Marissa,
Who you looking at over there...?
she's like wow...
I don't know you're looking at
something, she's looking at something over
there, we don't know, we don't know what
she's looking at over there, so that this
shows off the shape and the dress is
beautiful right?
we see her form, it looks
really nice, but we don't see that
embroidery, so if I add I've got my data
light HMI 200 over here fitted with a
projector with framing shutters, and I,
basically you guys, assuming used framing
shutters before, basically these are gonna
allow me to light up just the part of
the dress that I want, so we're gonna
just light up that strip, you know, and I
feel like in this case, you can actually
focus and defocus this, but I'm gonna
leave it kind of crisp a little bit,
because it's obvious we're lighting this.
This is a fashion shot, I'm not trying to
be subtle, so let's see you with the leg,
I'm gonna get that more or less in
position, we're gonna watch so that her fingers
don't get lit, so just gonna.. yup.. there we
go, perfect, and now we've added that and
at my exposure, that should give us a nice
that shot but we will check it...
There we go, that looks pretty nice...
we're gonna look for detail, that all looks
good, and again her face is kind of a bit dull,
you could probably if you wanted to, if
hasn't been a full silhouette, this might
actually look kind of cool, but I feel
like in there, it just looks unfinished,
because she's so flat, so what I'm gonna
do is, I'm gonna add another light, and I
kind of don't want to put it from the
same direction, I could just do that, but
my lights pointing down so much, so I am
actually going to have her turn this way to
create a nicer look with just her face,
she's gonna turn here...
I have my DLED 7 which is an LED
light, going to shine it right in her face
there it is...
this is also fitted with a projector to
give us a nice... this one, I'm gonna soften
out though, it's gonna give us a nice
kind of circle of light on her face, I've
set my... this is a bicolor, I'm going to
set my white balance at 5500, so they
match... it matches the HMI, it matches
everything else, and I'm gonna dim it
into you where I want it.
We'll put it right there, that looks
pretty nice, I'm just eyeballing it
because I can see it.. right?
I want her face to be a little bit
darker than the embroidery, causethe embroidery
is what I'm trying to show off..
Okay so... I'm gonna take a peep,
say-so, look chin up a bit...
there we go, boom, all right...
so let's see what that looks like, okay...
beautiful, this looks really nice guys.
I'm gonna come in make sure it's nice
and sharp... it is, you know,
yeah f/2.8 at this distance gives us
plenty of depth of field, these are big file
woosh 50 megapixel... files guys...
when you're shooting fashion and beauty
and stuff, sometimes it's nice to have
more megapixels...
You know?
Give you that extra detail,
extra crispness, so shoot a few here... good,
and this is the kind of shot that we
don't need to shoot a million... she's
gonna slightly move, we know the pose right?
It's very, very specific, try a hand
on the other hip too... powerful,
there we go...
strong, good, twist your hips towards me,
a little bit, there we go, good, one more,
good, last one, beautiful, nice and simple,
a check here..
everything look good,
now we could do any number of things
here right... we could add different lights,
we could add gels, we could do whatever.
You can come out like... so
she's equally exposed to me, can't have
Marissa in the light if I'm not in the
light... that's not fair right?
You'll get to be in your own light..
all right so... yeah..
we're in... again I say this a lot when
we're doing fashion type stuff... look at
the outfit, think about what's important
in the outfit, that's as important if
you're a model posing, and is important
if you're a photographer lighting it.
Yeah there's kind of your standard
catalog shots where everything's nice
and even, but very specifically if you're
trying to showcase part of an outfit you
want to look at what's important in the outfit.
Showcase those things with your
lighting and your pose, and you'll get a
much nicer fashion shot.
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