Subtractive Lighting

Responding to the same casting call, I was working with Lady Rosetta AKA the Costume Queen. The twist here was using masks and outfits.

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For this I did start out with dramatic lighting in mind.

For this image, I used a subtractive lighting technique. A large octa was to camera left, with a black panel camera right to absorb any light spill and to add a dark edge. I wanted the edges to be dark and some absorption into the background to occur.

Subtractive Light

We were working with the mirror (getting the reflection – which turned out to be successful) when I did the simple beauty shot you see here.

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  1. Posted May 20, 2011 at 6:20 pm by Chuck | Permalink

    Nice work on the lighting. I like with the focus from one side it bring you directly to the model and the eye naturally stops on her face.

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