Cat van Dark

This week I was in the studio with Cat van Dark and Lennart. The shoot concept was to shoot a few portraits with very minimalistic lighting. I’m a bit fan of narrow depth of field portraits and wanted to create a lighting style that had a low key look.

 

I based the shoot around a low powered Bowens 200ws flash head with a 60x80cm soft box as key light. The only other light source was Bowens 400ws fitted with a standard reflector, barn doors, honeycomb grid and colour gels for atmosphere. We were shooting between f1.4 and f3.5 depending on the desired depth of field.

 

 

To finish the night off I went for some clamshell lighting with a 80x60cm soft box on top and a 60x60cm soft box on the bottom. The separating between the softboxes was only just big enough  foe me to shoot through. I got up to the minimum focus range of my 85mm and shot at f8…

 

 

And because you asked for it here are the lighting diagrams …

 

 

 


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5 Responses to 'Cat van Dark'

  1. Peter A350 says:

    Thank you for adding the light set ups. It is very nice to know how you do these.

  2. Steve says:

    OK I think i need to come up to visit you in Germany

  3. Barry says:

    Hey Scott, I just wanted to let you know that I also appreciate your work in posting the lighting set-ups. I follow you from Flickr to see the set-up.

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