Lighting Set up for this pic?

[MagicallyDelicious]

http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b13/sarahemjones/portfolio-pregnancy-13-c.jpg

im doing a maternity shoot tonight and want to acheive a lighting effect like this.

Ill have use of two soft boxes and 2 modelling lights.

im thinking to light the front of the body with one soft box and then use the rest of the lights to light the backdrop?

am i going along the right lines to give the background that glowy feel?

[chtgrubbs]

There's probably no direct light on the figure itself, just edge lighting from the light being reflected from the background. There might be a reflector to the left of the subject to give a bit or wrap-around effect.

[chris.bailey]

Too much light on the chest for just reflection off the background. I would say its a spot or gridded snoot from high left onto the chest/belly and a couple of lights onto the background. Quite difficult to set up as the snoot/grid light is a couple of stops below the background light. Would be very easy for the modified light to be too strong and spill out.

A softbox to the front would create a bigger light pool.

[MagicallyDelicious]

Hmmmmm. now im confused!

Im thinking its just gonna be trial & error with this!

[Wilt]

Too much light on the chest for just reflection off the background. I would say its a spot or gridded snoot from high left onto the chest/belly and a couple of lights onto the background. Quite difficult to set up as the snoot/grid light is a couple of stops below the background light. Would be very easy for the modified light to be too strong and spill out.

A softbox to the front would create a bigger light pool.

There is no shadow cast from the flower, so the light is primarily bounce from the background. or even a translucent background lit from behind! The brightness values indicate 5EV differential from b/g vs. left side of her body, so as long as you get about 4EV difference you could tweak in PS, and play with curves to get the chest area what you want.

[MagicallyDelicious]

There is no shadow cast from the flower, so the light is primarily bounce from the background. or even a translucent background lit from behind! The brightness values indicate 5EV differential from b/g vs. left side of her body, so as long as you get about 4EV difference you could tweak in PS, and play with curves to get the chest area what you want.

OoOoO you have a good eye i never noticed the flower not casting the shadow.

Im gonna sound stupid now but 4EV?

:o

[Wilt]

OoOoO you have a good eye i never noticed the flower not casting the shadow.

Im gonna sound stupid now but 4EV?

:o

Read with a light meter, a differential in intensity of 4 f/stops. With your in-camera meter, fill the viewfinder with a small area of her body, compare to the reading with just the b/g filling the viewfinder. Normal 5EV differential is white-to-black. Since we're dealing with digital image, you can use 4EV and adjust the effect to exactly what you want in playing with curves and histogram, so that you get more detail captured in the shadow areas.

How far/close you stand her to the b/g can affect the wraparound magnitude, particularly with shoot-thru light coming from behind the b/g

[MagicallyDelicious]

Read with a light meter, a differential in intensity of 4 f/stops. With your in-camera meter, fill the viewfinder with a small area of her body, compare to the reading with just the b/g filling the viewfinder. Normal 5EV differential is white-to-black. Since we're dealing with digital image, you can use 4EV and adjust the effect to exactly what you want in playing with curves and histogram, so that you get more detail captured in the shadow areas.

Got ya :)

Thankies :)

[NewbieXT]

This pic is similar to one I did. In mine I used a white bed sheet for background and diffuser. yep, the light was behind the sheet. If this is the effect you are looking for just move the light slightlt camera left to light her front and shoot slightly left of subject. Here's mine.

And make sure you iron the backdrop.

[MagicallyDelicious]

Gorgeous shot newbie!

Well ive done the shoot and feel like crying! I got to college and the studio had litrally been stripped!

Im gonna post the results in the people section now. but i am defo gonna try your setup in the near future.

:)

[Wilt]

magically, try turning the model a few degrees clockwise so that just a bit of illumination strikes her more frontally, and move the camera a few degrees to camera left so stay in relative position to the model. Then, I think you've got it.