Once we did a little recap we set up the studio with a new lighting set up. We used a 3 head lighting, where the light is attached to a stand with three legs at the bottom, it is on a pole with handles so you can turn the direction of the light, higher or lower and twist the light around too whilst is it in the air. It does add time to the set up of the shoot though.
We used diffusers, these are big rectangular cloth like boards, you attach these to stands and lift them as high as you need them. You place a light behind the diffuser with a soft box over the light to make the light softer. Or you don't need to use a soft box on the light just have a hard light but the larger the soft box the more light it will give out any way.
When you are shooting close up images for beuaty ads which is what we are going to do then it is best to shoot the pictures with a tripod stand. This will make sure the image will always be the same as you will keep the model the same when you have got the right pose.
The only things you will change to a beauty image once you have got the right pose is -
- the lighting
- the hair is all in place and tight and neat
- the eye brows are perfect
- the lipstick and eye liner is on point and neat
You change the little things in the image to make the image perfection.
SET UP 1
This is the first set up we did with a beauty lens.
From the front of the studio facing the back -
This set up, adding the light going through the diffusers adds soft light to the back and the sides of the head and face. The colour of the hair changes its a lot more vivid in colour and when the hair is up it makes the facial features and the neck/jaw a lot softer. If the image comes out too bright the aperture needs changing to make the skin softer, not whiter. The skin looks lovely and soft, the cheeks and the colours on the cheeks add a more contoured look too. The white reflective boards which were added in to the set make the light bounce back into the shot instead of being lost.
We tried this set up with a background a different colour, with the lights coming in from the back it makes the background look fake and the image looks photoshopped, so we worked out that strong background colours do not look good with this set up.
We kept the same set up but took the diffusers out the background so it was just a soft box light behind the model, this made the pupils in the image go square, which for a close up would look very cool but very un-natural.
The lens was changed to a 100mm Macro, we did some really up close work on the eyes and we saw some really interesting shots of the eye from different angles and different compositions.
The camera was tilted to one side - this caught the eye, the eyebrow, a bit of the nose and a little bit of the hair too. This was a cool image as it was on a slant and caught a few different features.
Landscape - this picture looked really good too but it looked very normal, just the front view of an eye and the eyebrow.
Portrait - this picture caught the whole front of the eye and eyebrow but dragged the image down as it had a lot of cheek on the bottom of the picture too which you don't really need in a beauty image.
The next picture is the eye on the side, you can see all the details of the eye ball and the eyelashes, it looked very very interesting and to see how all these kinda of images are shot was really good to learn too.
SET UP 2
This set up we used a 85mm lens.
From the front of the studio facing the back
Replacing and changing the set up slightly, we added black boards to the front of the set down each sides of the camera, This was a really cool set up as the dark boards add more detail to the face, add more structure, add more tone into the skin but keeps it looking soft. The lights coming from the back still add softness to the pictures but more structure to them. This set up is good for portraits and for close work too like what we are doing.
These are images where they are compared to SET UP 1 and SET UP 2 -
I really enjoyed this lesson learning more about close up work, different set ups and different compositions the model can do to get some really interesting images.
The difference between the two set ups you can really see, the first set up makes the skin look so soft and smooth, everything looks very sharp and neat. Where are in the second set up there is more contouring and shadows in the skin, the skin is soft too but the face doesn't look as nice as it does it the first set.
Personally I like the first set up for the perfect skin, the hair highlight, the sharp details on the face and skin too. I like the second set up but I much prefer the first one.
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