I had the pleasure of working with Model and Make up Artist Lauren, from Miami. Supershoots welcomes her to the family and doubles as a wonderful artist and model.
A beauty shot portrait using a tenting, tilting or tee pee'ing, if you will, two soft boxes close to Lauren for soft light. Hard to go wrong with a pretty face.
poison wrote:
great shots, liked #2 bether, maybe because of the top ..in #1 it doesnt look that good on the left of the picture.
Thanks for bringing that up. The blue jean vest is kind of made that way but does appear to deform. I left it that way. Perhaps lazy. I also hate the floating hand.
The best way to describe a Tee Pee effect is to build a V shape pattern with two soft boxes. Place the subject just on the back plain and allow the bank of the soft boxes instead of the center to be your main light source. Just think of an A frame house and place your model on the back patio sliding glass doors but shoot from the front porch with the door open of course. ;-)
This works different with deep or shallow soft boxes. I prefer to use this technique with shallow banks. Then you can adjust power on one light to change effects. Obviously this technique is for portraits or beauty head shots.
Thanks for the extensive description. I'm definitely going to save this thread.
You can also play around. Another example would be to place your fingers together with your palms apart from each other which is the way I have already described. Then open your pinkie finger and so forth; pressing and keeping your index fingers and thumbs connected to spread and tilt your hands. Design your placement that way with a silver reflector underneath both soft boxes. Your thumbs connected represents your reflector. Your index fingers represent how the soft boxes would touch each other and be tilted.
Shoot through the open triangle. This will add a little more directional lighting from your soft boxes if desired.
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