Photographing Shaquillah

Jan 21

After a very welcome Christmas break it was good to get back to working with a model again

Shaquillah and I had worked together once before, a natural light shoot in London, and we were both very happy with the images so it was good to meet up again

Our second shoot was in January, we very wisely chose to work indoors at a local hall as it was freezing outside!

We kept things clean with a classic white backdrop and various lights, and played around with a few long silks to see what we could come up with

The Initial Set Up

White cloth backdrop

Main light Godox Ad600 Pro II

Second light AD600BM with red gel aimed at the backdrop

Third light Ad200 with stripbox

Fourth light Ad200 with orange gel aimed at model from behind

Our initial images were fairly straightforward, just to make sure the lighting was how I wanted it

For the first set of images Shaquillah wore a yellow dress and I’d already removed the gels from the lights except for the red gel on the background

Three lights were used, the key light in front, and two rim lights either side and behind Shaquillah adding light to her arms, and one side of her face

I love having two edge lights as in this image

We added a yellow silk for some interest and movement

Our second look was Shaquillah in a green dress

For this I put a blue gel on the background and kept the other lights the same

Within the studio we found a small area with some coloured lights

The lights were very low and wouldn’t show up in the image without using a very high iso, so I placed a light with an orange gel in front of Shaquillah , and a light with a blue gel behind her

I opened the aperture to f2.8 to blur the background