17 — Red

Red

Lighting Diagram

Equipment List

  • Camera: Canon 5D MkII

  • Lens: Canon 50mm F/1.4

  • Flashes: Canon 580ex, 430ex X 3, Yongnuo YN460 X 3, Nikon SB800 & SB24.

  • Accessories: 4 light stands, 6 light brackets, 1 o-flash, 2 Westcott Apollos, 2 Phottix softbox, a boom a tripod & some gels!

Camera Settings

Shutter Speed — 1/160th, Aperture — F/1.8, ISO — 400.

Fancied getting a little crazy tonight, wanted to get a big setup together for a shoot so I gathered some kit from a couple of friends (Thanks John & Adam) & setup under Lincoln’s cathedral. Ashley very kindly showed off one of her lesser known sides for me & modeld one of her sisters amazing dresses. To set work with the red dress I put 2 red gels on the outer back lights & left the center bare, love the drama. It actually didn’t turn out to be that tricky to balance all the lights, I started most of them on 1/16th power & adjusted each one slightly after a few test shots but it didn’t need a huge amount of tweaking. I guess that means I need to do a shot with even more lights…

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You can check this shot on my flickr too (go favourite & comment yeah?), uploaded at super size so you can see all the fine details.

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Comments

Rae Marvin

Nice use of location and model as regards the lighting experiment you’ve pulled that of too .

Thumbs up fella , cheers for sharing and look forward to see more .

Risky Rich

That is one hell of a rig! I love the backdrop and the way you’ve lit it. The whole thing has worked a treat.

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