Practice Makes Perfect.

As I said in an earlier blog, I tried to make sure I booked the Studio for at least 6 hours a week in my own time to give myself a bit of extra swatting up.
For this I sourced models, a make up artist and a clothing company to use on numerous occasions.

The first thing I was struggling with was lighting the backdrop to create a high key look. This was impossible when only using one light.

For the above image I incorporated another light for the background. I felt this still wasn't high key enough so started to question what I could do to make it whiter.

I was using a soft box to light the rear which diffuses and spreads the light evenly in quite a large area.

With this in mind I decided to swap the soft box for a Barn door fitment. This gave me a lot more control of the direction of the light and didn't diffuse the light at all.

As you can see from my second image, the background is much whiter. Although the darker would work better in some instances, I wanted to make sure I was able to do both.

For this image above I made the conscious decision to have a darker background to show off the higher tones in the sitters face. I couldn't have it too dark because it would make the eyelashes on the left disappear.