9th lightGIANTS Friday night shoot. “Birds of Paradise”

Once again Lisa Futterer (http://www.hairart-lisa.de/) was back in the studio doing some of her make up magic. This time we were shooting "the Birds of Paradise". I based the lighting around quick easy set ups to get different looks quickly, and like always I had a set of lighting (with a bit of free time at the end to play with the lighting). We started with one set up and step by step changed the background lighting to create different looks.

Stephanie Schlittenhardt

Julie Therré

Boris Jusseit

The idea was to leave the key light and a reflector set up in the same place and only change the background lighting.

• We started with 2 flashed pointed at the background to blow the grey paper out to become almost white.
• Later turned the strobes around towards the models. This caused the background to become a lot darker (almost black) and creat a rim lightin on the models
• Then I added a 4th flash on the ground behind the models, with barn doors and colour gels we could control the colour of the back ground.
• Towards the end we changed the grey seamless paper background for curtains

Using these quick easy steeps we created 4 different looks with next to no effort or time.

Scott Lewis

Markus Wochele

Thomas Reimann

Stefan Janeschitz

It was a quick and creative way to get different looks when you are pressed for time ....

and finally the world famous video

Thanks to Daniel Neu