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Originally Posted by RussHeath
Beautiful shot, beatifully lit. Thanks for sharing it.
I had not seen the portrait tutorial WooD posted, so thank you for that too.
I would love to know more details about your lighting for this shot.  |
Russ,
I tried something different with this shot. My fill light in my high key camera room is bolted to the west wall. Normally I have the subject facing that wall, but for this image I had her face the east (background) wall. This is usually the background and is overlit by one stop to keep it white. So the spill from the background has effectively become my fill light and the fill light is now a kicker. One problem I noticed doing it this way is that the three lights pretty much cancel out the shadows from the opposite light so I enhanced the rather light shadows in Photoshop so she doesn't appear to be floating above the floor. Since the floor cannot be seperately lit (and I have not painted it since about October!) I cloned out some shoe scuff marks and dodged out some slight grayishness.
Benji