Small Spaces

Image Bank - Small Spaces

Working in tight spaces is not a problem you have when shooting in large studios, but when you have to take over a corner of a small salon to shoot an add campaign for a client, it is amazing how soon you run out of places to put up a light.

As you can see this shot was taken with a 4 light setup. The main light on the left was fitted with a large Elinchrom Rotalux softbox, but to add a little more edge to the light, the outer diffuser was removed. The second light was used to illuminate the Lastolite HiLite, of course set to 2 stops higher than the working exposure. The hair light was a simple deep reflector dish to add a large pool of hard light to the hair. Finally a beauty dish on the opposite side to the main light which was at 90 degrees to camera and subject, for a sandwich lighting effect.

I used the Elinchrom BX500Ri flash heads for a rapid recharge so as to capture a burst of images, especially when shooting the small groups.

The Exposure was determined to give a good depth of field for detail.

Iso 100 Shutter Speed 1/160th Aperture F11

This is a pull back shot to show the light positions, so no post production was used.

We were able to film this shoot for PT4U and you can find the films by clicking HERE