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wynnesome

Thu Oct 23, 2008 12:30 am


Re: Lighting Technique - Shooting into a softbox

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Ok, I can post a couple of these shots now.

I always jokingly call the big Octabox the "big freaking throw light everywhere box" because for most of my personal shooting, I'm trying to keep light off of more areas than I'm putting light onto!

But, I decided I had a good use for it in the "shooting into the softbox" technique, which I hadn't done any of in over a year, since doing a few on the big 2x4 box with Jenessa for her maternity shoot. (That shoot is on my gallery, here: http://www.starkravenmusic.com/gallery/main.php/v/commercial/Jenessa/)

In Friday's shoot, we made a little more use of the shape of the box itself, and then got a little crazy with a metal chair loaned to the studio by Tom Bowen of Vintage Vista.  Sometimes a chair is not a chair - just a visually interesting metal grid!

Here are a couple of images from the "shooting into the softbox" part of the shoot. The entire shoot can be seen on my gallery site, here: http://www.starkravenmusic.com/gallery/main.php/v/Models/2008/ogechi/

Model: Ogechi - http://www.modelmayhem.com/therealogechi

