Hey this is Daniel Norton,
I'm here in my studio in New York City
with Marissa and we were supposed to
do some simple head
shots today, and yeah, so anyways we
decided to do something.
Marissa showed up with this really cool
hat from a designer that you worked with
before... Chuchu New York.
we will put a link up..very cool hats, and I
was like well.... let's take
advantage, and do something really fun
with the hat since you brought it, so
yeah... we're doing kind of a fun shot.
It's a two light shot, I want to, I didn't
have a lot of time so background whatever...
already we just had the plain wall, so
I'm letting it go grey behind her.
I'm just lighting her with a small light
source to to keep the light kind of
controlled, and I'm adding a secondary
light over here. This has got a grid on
it and a blue gel, just to give us some
separation. This is gonna come from the
back, and rim the hat.
I added a blue gel because Marissa has blue eyes...
I know very... and this is the
2 x 1.3 softbox from Profoto.
So let's see what we got here.
I'm tethered in the Capture One as always.
I've got my 85 mm lens on.
I'm going to first take a shot with new
lights as per usual.
It's kind of bright in here right now, so
we might see a little bit of her, but
basically, no that's pretty good, so you
know I always say get rid of all light
in the space, but if they're not moving,
you know, it's not the end of the world.
May be able to go a little darker.
This is actually f/8, I might go f/11 on this
one actually, just to be safe. Does look
Marissa... she's always moving around, I
can't counter on her to stay still.
There we go, alright, so she's gone .
Alright so we're f/11.
I'm going to turn my lights on now.
I have two lights, one is over here in the softbox.
That's my A-group, so I'm gonna
just start with that one.
Yeah and the other one should be my
B-group. Let me just test that, yep, alright,
perfect.
So I'm gonna turn off B and let's just do
day, so we're gonna work towards the
light, so we just do the one light.
This is our establishing light, right?
It's setting the mood, we've got this kind of
shadowy look on her face, which is kind
of moody, we're not showing you know too
much of anything else but the hat, right,
in fact we're not seeing the hat at all,
what's gonna bring the hat out is our
secondary light, I think it might be a
smidge dark too. So I'm gonna actually
bring the light up a tiny bit. I said I
was in TTL, but it actually wasn't.
I was in manual suddenly go up half a stop ..
Yeah, that looks pretty good,
okay, that's some good exposure.
I want to keep it a little bit on the dark
side. Now I'm gonna bring the B-light in.
I'll turn off A as always, bring the
B-light in, which is our separation
light, again this is, this one's like in
the Hat, and also like her shoulders.
We're gonna see what that looks like,
okay good, all right, it's definitely
giving shape to it.
I'm gonna give it a
little bit more juice again, like the
other light I think.
I got to give it I think,
I wanna give this one 3/4's of a stop
roughly, oh okay, cool,
that might be a bit much, but I'm gonna
add the other light just to be sure, and
let's see what we get.
Good, nice, take a quick look at it, okay
that looks pretty cool.
Just note, if you are shooting something
that's fashion for like a designer, since I
wasn't hired to do some, do what I want
and ask before you add color to things,
but I don't think Chuchu will ming...
yeah and we'll say it
doesn't have any blue in it .
I'm doing that, alright, so that looks pretty
cool I actually like it. We're kind of fighting
this edge here of like a little bit of
catch light versus no catch light, and
Marissa will move kind of..
just moves slightly her head up and down,
to get some different poses,
and we'll shoot something.
So that looks pretty good, here we go
good, good, good, the further she works
that way the darker her face is gonna be.
The more she works towards the light, the
lighter, actually work your shoulders too.
yeah there we go,
good, yeah, that's better actually,
The more turns... there we go well she
turns into more, we're gonna see the hat,
you know, if we wanted, we want to
definitely focus on the...
good hold like that, let me
just check it again.
That looks really good, let's do a couple more.
I'd like you to be a little more open here,
there we go, that's it right there.
Good.
I think that's good, checking, final check,
that's actually really nice, we have a
lot, we have enough light on her eyes,
the thing separates, the dress looks good.
Marissa looks okay, you know, and I think
that gives us what we want. So kind of
fun, kind of dramatic, not a classic
catalogue shot of the hat more like an
editorial shot.
So you know we're playing
around here, it looks pretty good.
I like it, she likes it, we're all happy.
Back to this camera, this is my first, was
my farewell camera.
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