Bodyscapes lighting questions...

[BlindGuyTakingPictures]

I have read through a few posts and they talked about ensuring the room is dark and all lights are off except for the ones being used.

The questions I have are:
1 - Are you using the same lights and you do for normal pictures or are you using much smaller or lower powered bulbs?

2 - I would think if using the regular lights would be too bright which makes me wonder how much work is done in post processing to add the shadows?

[mfharper]

It really all depends on the look your after. For bodyscapes I tend to use one light , 10" reflector with a 30 degree grid. Sometimes though I will use a little fill and adjust the contrast to taste in post.

[Steve Wintrow]

mfharper, would it be possible to show a picture with a lighting diagram, that would be very helpful.

[Caspita]

Depending on the overall look of the image would depend on what modifier to use. Harsh lighting would obviously be bare bulb, and as stated above with a grid. Softer light would be either a softbox or stripbox, or any similar modifier. As for the desired shadows, its all about the light placement, much post processing should not be needed.

Take a look at this thread, it was from this section just a couple of weeks ago. I posted an example somewhere in there.
http://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthread.php?t=797753