6. friday night shoot “Studio 101″ [review]

At the request of a "Serbian Anarchist" I (Scott) organised a studio workshop for people that had never been in a studio before. The idea was to cover the complete basics and build up a few different lighting set ups 1 light at a time so that they could see the effect each light had on the image.

We spend the first 30 or 40 minutes talking about different light formers, triggers, soft light, hard light etc. Later, as we started to shoot we covered the position of the light in relation  to the subject distance, size, brightness etc, as its easier to understand when you can actually see a few practical examples.

Deana Maksimović-Vidanović

As each light set-up was built 1 light at a time you could see the difference that each strobe made as it was added to the image. This way it was easier to explain the roles of a Key light, Fill light, Hair light etc as the lighting became more and more complex. But sometimes I got the feeling that they wanted to maybe move along a little faster than I could set up the lights

Stefan Janeschitz

We used a lot of different basic set ups with 1 or 2 strobes normally a Key and Fill light or Key and Hair light. theses all culminated in a more complicated light setup combining 3 or 4 monoblocks. And for a grand finale we built a very unique set-up, a "pseudo ring light" that we dubbed "Flower light" because the catch lights in our models eyes look a lot like a flowers.

A special thanks to our 2 models "Tiffie" and "Oxanna" for doing a wonderful job.  All in all I had a very fun night and we had a lot of laughs, now for our world famous making of video...


...and a group shot.