Alexandra Underwood

Alexandra and I hooked up to add some shots to her portfolio. We exchanged idea's and came up with this look we both wanted for her. We went for that contrasty, shadowy look.

She was awsome to work with - very experienced model. She's been featured in Vogue & on ANTM along with various on-line magazines. Cool chick.

Shot in my tight studio, Single strobe set up. Einstein + 36" Octabox w/ Grid or 36" Stripbox w/ Grid.

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These are awesome dude. Great work. I'm a huge fan of 1 light w/ high contrast. I do find #4 is a bit distracting at the top with the tangency of her hair with the frame of the image.

I dont recall seeing any of your work I didnt like. These are nice. Its always a plus working with an experienced model.

What a beauty and what a beautiful set.

The posing - was that the model (w/ her experience) or you guiding her?

^ a bit of both - but she was very natural and one of the best models I've worked with.

Thanks for the comments guys.

All of these are outstanding. I really love 1. but her hair in her eye bugs me, would have loved to see all of her face with that pose. But I'm sure that was intentional. Great work.

nice work! liking the high contrast look!

Very nice one.

Great work ma man! Love the single light. Usually I would be using a fill with a reflector. What is your camera settings?

Really nice shots!

Indeed nice serie,why are saerching some people to give always a point of critique if there are no points to do it?
Nice work also your modell is a beauty go on with this kind of taking pictures.

leninglass wrote in post #12711336
Great work ma man! Love the single light. Usually I would be using a fill with a reflector. What is your camera settings?

Thanks Lenin I've been exploring singe lighting a lot recently... kinda Zack Arias "OneLight" approach. I have anothers set coming up with a mode Scarlett I'll be post up soon, same thing - all one light.

I explored using fill during this shoot with my 43" white/silver collapsable reflector (used white side) - but I really liked the super contrast look, especially the B/W on her standing (used a strip box there). The reflector filled shadows a bit which was cool, but also added a rim light look to her left arm which I wasn't a fan of. Next go around I'll try different placements. It tough because my studio is stuper tight - 10x10 so I kinda have to deal with what I'm given.

Camera settings - I think I was shooting at F11 this entire series. F11, 1/160ss and ISO 100 - Einstein triggered by Pocketwizards.

Very nice! Light, model, everything.

Single lighting lends drama... always a nice touch. Very good work!

Thanks for all the comments guys