Studio shot

[anglefire]

As in the description, taken at the Attic Studio in Leicester with Vampire Princess on a Studio lighting "course" - enjoyable day but wonder what others thoughts are. I do have some more, but she doesn't tend to wear many clothes - what she had on first thing lasted 35minutes. 

[Jediboy]

I think it's a great photo. The lighting is very good, but I guess that's the point of the 'course.'
Good work.
 

[anglefire]

We did some shots with gridded boxes, one on each side - and was interesting to see the effect as she moved back and forth in the light. I have a lovely example where the centre of the body is in shadow and the two sides parts of the face are illuminated - but I don't think Mike would necessarily like total nude (You can't see a lot as it happens due to the shadows)

And another technique where you have a very strong direct light from the front with the BG lit - when using a longish lens (100mm FF) you get a sort of shadow around the outline - it can be very subtle. Apparently very popular in the 20's/30's and upto the 50's - the one book he used to illustrate some of the techniques had examples and that was published in 1947 or thereabouts!

John Duder was taking the course.

[anglefire]

In fact his shot had the gridded boxes - but being a little further back was more illuminated - but there is still a "shadow" down the middle