I chose a photo of Cara Delevingne, her lighting was strong on one side, creating this rembrandt lighting effect (the triangle of light on her right cheek, named after the dutch painter- Rembrandt, who often used this style of lighting).
It was hard to recreate this photo and we tried many lighting set ups- the first one being this…
Camera settings : F13 1/125 ISO 200
This didn't work at all so we got rid of the light on the right side and used a reflector
The camera settings were F8 1/125 ISO 200
We added a black reflector as we didn't want too much light to be bounced back into the photo, we then realised we needed a harsher light to create the rembrandt lighting style and so swapped the soft box for a beauty dish
This still wasn't quite right and so we added a white reflector as well
The camera settings were F13 1/125 ISO 200 and the lights were f6.0
we finally managed to get something similar, here are my photos…
We then created lighting for a photo one of my group members had brought in- this is the photo of Gwyneth Paltrow
We started with this lighting set-up …
Camer settings were F16 1/125 ISO100
Elinchrom lights were 4 but we then put them up to 5.4 so aperture became F22
This is the photo we took with this lighting set up
From the photos we decided we needed a hair light/mid light to make it softer, especially on the arm.
New set up:
This is our final photo
It could do with some editing to make look magazine advert worthy, and maybe a visit back to the studio to spend more time on the lighting, but overall I think we did a good enough job of recreating it.
Also today, our group got to do tethering to capture one on the macs and I was very happy about this as I hadn't done it before and I found it so useful to see our photos pop up straight away on a bigger screen so we could look closer to see if we were achieving the right lighting effects.
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