Comments on: [BTS] Anna Sui’s One Light Fashion Shoot With Sanchez & Mongiello

By: Andrew Houser

Andrew Houser — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 17:49:00 +0000

I’m curious as to why you said it was one light (granted, second light in the back of the set)? Was it because you only saw one light in the video? I would tend to agree that you see on modeling light lighting the scene, but there could be plenty more. That said, my girlfriend has shot some stuff that still has me scratching my head by placing one bare bulb behind the models head, yet the light on her face is soft and ethereal (our studio is a couple thousand square feet with 15′ ceilings, and she’s never busted those lights past 1/4 power, so I can’t attribute it to bounce.)

By: James Hays

James Hays — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 05:03:00 +0000

This thing is really interesting. I think it needs the Hobby investigation. At about:12 you see a glimpse of an overhead strobe head, angled down and back to the set. At :35 you see another behind the window. The interesting frames for me come at :32 and :33, you see two different shots on the monitor one quite a bit brighter than the other and with much more fill on the subject.

By: Patrick Hall

Patrick Hall — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 18:21:00 +0000

yeah my title was a bit misleading….I mention the backlight int he article but it still seems like a ton of fill from the front.

By: Herr Falch Svinar

Herr Falch Svinar — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 14:55:00 +0000

Hmm, even with two lights i dont see how it will light up the whole room..as the second strobe just comes through a little window..Can somebody explain this X-File case? And what is the best way to balance flash and ambient light indoors?

By: Charles Lethbridge

Charles Lethbridge — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 12:31:00 +0000

Don’t forget the big bit of foamboard off to camera left and probably elsewhere…

By: Eduardo Larrosa

Eduardo Larrosa — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 05:18:00 +0000

agree with Ofir, there’s 2 lights going on there gentlemen…

By: Ofir Abe

Ofir Abe — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 01:07:00 +0000

hi guys,

at 0:35 seconds, you can see a high raised flash head behind the windowed wall which blasts through the window to fill the “room” with light. the gridded light is just filling in the face (i guess). so it’s not one light.

By: mimo123

mimo123 — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 00:14:00 +0000

Do you mean models.com? they rate photographers?

By: Danylö Böbyk

Danylö Böbyk — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 21:17:00 +0000

true that. there’s definitely a strong second light coming from that window behind the model (we can see that shadows that the sofa casts) – in any case I like the tones on the resulting image ; )

By: Paul Ferradas

Paul Ferradas — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 20:43:00 +0000

Wow, I’m amazed how much light they are getting in the shot using a gridded reflector. Look at the picture coming in from the camera on the computer, the image looks very “bright”, something doesn’t make sense. The light is sharply on her face creating contrasty shadows but the RAW images don’t show this. They look like they are color graded and photoshopped coming into Phase One Pro. That’s amazing.