p.1 #1 · Beauty Shoot for "Citizen K" Magazine "How Did I Do It?"
Beauty Shoot for "Citizen K" Magazine "How Did I Do It?"
Recently, I received an e-mail from someone who saw my image on my introduction page of my blog, asking "...how did you do it?" I will not include what he speculated, which was actually quite close.
For those of you wishing to participate, I would like you to tell me, what you think I did. I will eventually tell you all the technique I employed for this particular beauty story shot for "Citizen K International".
So, go ahead and tell me what your impressions are. Post your answer on the Forum and on my Blog. That way, everyone who has participated can see all of the responses.
p.1 #2 · Beauty Shoot for "Citizen K" Magazine "How Did I Do It?"
I'm guessing that you may have used a beauty dish (close to the face) to light the face with a white reflector below to bring some light back in. A gridded reflector on each side (behind the model) for the rim lighting. They would be at roughly a 45 degree angle pointing in at them.
How close/far away am I?
p.1 #3 · Beauty Shoot for "Citizen K" Magazine "How Did I Do It?"
If he's using a beauty dish it's going to have to be gridded and probably tabled above and forward of the model, so that she's just skimming the edge of its pattern...but I don't think that's really Benji's lighting style?
I also see the reflection in her eye of what looks like a round reflector, probably at about mid-chest height. There's definitely something filling in that shadow on her throat.
p.1 #4 · Beauty Shoot for "Citizen K" Magazine "How Did I Do It?"
Am I seeing incorrectly two kicker lights (heavily gridded) from behind on each side? I'd put them a hair over her ear height. Appear to be barely skimming, so as not to highlight the shoulders, only the top of the head.
p.1 #6 · Beauty Shoot for "Citizen K" Magazine "How Did I Do It?"
Looks like 4 lights: 2 rim lights for the side of the face, a main light that's nearly above the subject and one light source, perhaps a fill - on the camera's axis (as seen in the subjects eyes).
p.1 #7 · Beauty Shoot for "Citizen K" Magazine "How Did I Do It?"
I personally think the following: Beauty dish or ringflash above, kickers to the side, gridded heavily, round reflector panel below to bring light back to the darkness.
