Scarlett Johansson Behind The Scenes With Mango

For the last three years or so, Scarlett Johansson has been the face behind the acclaimed Spanish clothing company Mango. In their latest Spring/Summer 2011 campaign, set in the Goldstein Residence in Beverly Hills, photographer superstar Mario Sorrenti builds his images exclusively with natural light and reflectors. It’s hard to imagine a wet haired Johansson ever not looking incredible, so it should not come as a surprise that Mario and company produced some stunning images. Hopefully these photographs will encourage a lot of photographers to step away from the strobes every now and then and work with the best light given to us: the sun!

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Anonymous
”Hopefully these photographs will encourage a lot of photographers to step away from the strobes every now and then and work with the best light given to us: the sun!”
So why does the photographer in the video have a honking PocketWizard Transceiver stuck on the top of his camera?
http://www.patrickhallphotography.com Patrick Hall
One issue I always have when lighting with reflectors is no matter how much direct sunlight is hitting them, they never seem to light my subject enough to properly expose the whole scene. Anyone have any tips on how to keep the background readable while still illuminating the subject? Or is this all a photoshop trick?
http://www.facebook.com/jaymespoudrier Jaymes Poudrier
YUP.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1215260719 Matt Estrada
i was about to ask the exact same thing
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1215260719 Matt Estrada
i was about to ask the exact same thing
http://twitter.com/jernelsen Jer Nelsen
Are the little bands of light that happen around 2:20 strobes or just part of the video?
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=517217190 Jonny Ray
Look at the photos. The backgrounds seem pretty blown out to me.
http://www.vph.co/blog Jonathan Dear
what time of day are you shooting? are you backlighting? what do you mean by background readable? Unless you have low sun, you will usually always clip your highlights if they are backlit when using a reflector.
http://www.facebook.com/rol.hernandez Roland Hernandez
I like my scarlett with a little bit more meat on her. She looks a little to skinny.
Anonymous
i feel inspired, but not in a professional sort of way.. love scarlett
Gus Munoz
I agree ! Too thin. I think she’s been on a those Hollywood crash diets.
Gus Munoz
Perhaps a very large diffusing panel or I usually use the models head to block out the suns direct harshness, enabling a much more even light balance.
Nastase Alex
If she would have strobes on her the background would have been very dark, not blown out. So patrick is right, i cant see a way to illuminate the subject, have a proper exposure on her, AND have a proper exposure of the background. the only way i think one could achieve that is by exposing separately the subject with strobes and then the background.
i attached an example of illuminating with strobes in bright sun. Photography by Karl Taylor.
http://www.facebook.com/photographyyy Kurt Stevens
Found this video not to be all that great. Maybe a show off for all those photographers who are living the high life shooting super stars, but behind the scenes? What did I take away, that I saw a beautiful model with thousands of dollars worth of makeup/clothing/accessories and a photographer with the same in lenses and gear to go along with it?
If you want to show me behind the scenes, don’t cut away into this artistic nonsense, not that I don’t like it, I can’t pull anything away on how someone could work with those and create beautiful imagery. Also, whats with no one throwing in outcomings in the video? Seems like I have to always wander around to try to find what the finals were.
http://www.facebook.com/photographyyy Kurt Stevens
Then of course going into the full post, I see the finals, scratch my last part of my comment.
Anonymous
you can balance the strobe to ambient all you have to do is drop shutter speed
Kristofor Jensen
Strobes IMO
Ken Jacoby
He’s triggering the sun! Silly rabbit…
http://twitter.com/nickshek Nick Shek
I came across this set recently, absolutely love the resulting images. I want to try natural light only but I feel insecure without my strobe.
http://twitter.com/qwik3r Robert Gordon
Anyone know what kind of camera he’s using?
http://twitter.com/qwik3r Robert Gordon
Anyone know what kind of camera he’s using?
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1844457234 Marco Stix
without strobes? And why is there a pocket wizard @ ~0:46 on the cam?
http://twitter.com/fireheadnet firehead
could it be a wireless file transmitter?
http://twitter.com/fireheadnet firehead
could it be a wireless file transmitter?
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Anonymous
I guess I’m in the minority here—I’m most comfortable with natural light, always have been. It’s strobes I struggle with!
As far as getting exposure on background and subject even is concerned, it’s really all about time of day and location. More often than not though, the background is gonna be a little under or over exposed. I don’t think there’s a good or bad where this is concerned, it’s all about what you want as the final product. I like to blow out the background a bit, get some flare going on. In the image attached, I spot metered for the subject’s face and let the sun do the rest.
@Kurt—this video obviously wasn’t made specifically for photographers in mind. It’s more of a promotional vehicle for the clothing line. Useful though since you can see the setups a bit and then see what they got for final images.
@Robert—it looks like Canon glass. The body–mabye a 1Ds? I may be wrong about that though since I would think he would use medium format for this type of work.
Anonymous
This was shot with strobes for sure. I don’t even have to look at the final shots to see that. But to get the shots to look like this, you can see they clearly shot her in the shade thus making her under exposed. They then relit just her to expose her. This is my guess. This shot could also be a composite. If I want certain situations to happen in my work, I simply just make them. Tripod, expose for the background with no one in it, shoot bracket exposure, then bring in the subject and expose for them, shoot, composite the two.
http://twitter.com/JeffSipper Jeff Sipper
When I’ve shot model shoots, like this, with a mixture of strobe and natural light, I’ve found it easier to just leave the PocketWizard on top of the camera. Nothing is worse than getting into a groove, decide to switch over to strobe and realize you ahev to dig thru a bag to find the PocketWizard. Just leave it on. When you are on tight time schedules with bigger budgets, you need to be as efficient as possible with your time.
Antoine Thisdale
Pretty cool shoot, love using only avail. light! best feeling ever!
on a side note; anyone can tell me what’s the song used in the video? i kind of dig it.
http://www.facebook.com/JaveSuave Jean-François Sauvé
Music is Chromatics – in the city – they are from a label called Italians do it better.
On an other note does any of you know what kind of Photoshop process makes images nicely saturated and glossy like those? I mean I know it sounds like a silly question, but there is really somthing I can’t get my fingers on. It’s glossy as if it’s like a mini hdr process or something like that.
http://www.JettFoto.com Corey Melton
the shots from this shoot are pretty good, but HOLY CRAP! Have you guys looked through his portfolio on Art Partner? He’s incredible! Really fantastic work #inspired
http://www.JettFoto.com Corey Melton
maybe you should show us how its done then?
http://profiles.google.com/intjonmiller Jon Miller
There’s a “scientific art” to finding a location and angle that is flattering to your subject while also allowing the visible background to be less bright than the other surrounding areas, so that you still have enough direct sunlight to actually use a reflector, but a background that is sufficiently not-nuked to balance well with that reflected light.
Does that make sense out loud? Look for contrast. Put your subject in the sun, roughly backlit, with a shady spot behind them to be used as the background. Obviously there are plenty of other arrangements and solutions, but when I’m shooting available light with a reflector this is the first arrangement I look for.
http://profiles.google.com/intjonmiller Jon Miller
”Lost in Translation” Scarlett, right?
Anonymous
I think the fact the only obvious giveaway that the shots were strobed was the Pocket Wizard says a lot. Very well balanced light. Great images regardless of how they were lit.
http://twitter.com/fragreg Francesco Gregori
Maybe he used a strobe in one picture, the sixth, the only one not in backlight.
look at that, you can see clearly that the sun has almost gone down by the glass reflection.
there wasn’t for sure enough natural light to light the subject, and the reflector can work only if placed in opposite to light source.
Anonymous
It looks like all the published photos were shot with natural light but it’s hard to imagine they didn’t have strobes, etc. set up (or at least in the bag).
The Chromatics soundtrack adds a lot to the video; I really liked how they used its tempo to pace the transitions between stills.
Anonymous
Very beautiful, soft and feminine shots, love the look of daylight. Sure When the weather’s good sure but I still prefer the indoors for reliability on so many fronts and as I now exclusively shoot head shots (Business Portraits) in the studio I leave the outdoors to our model portfolio shoots which we do for fun and experimentation :)
Anonymous
Very beautiful, soft and feminine shots, love the look of daylight. Sure When the weather’s good sure but I still prefer the indoors for reliability on so many fronts and as I now exclusively shoot head shots (Business Portraits) in the studio I leave the outdoors to our model portfolio shoots which we do for fun and experimentation :)
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Excellent! Great article, I already saved it to my
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Anonymous
Pretty sure you can see a soft box in the reflection around 1:58 so I’m jumping on the strobe bandwagon.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=754554855 Edd Carlile
The girl looks bored out of her skull.
(did anyone see her crack a smile at any point in the vid?)
http://www.facebook.com/mmanastireanu Marius Manastireanu
They removed her tattoo .. :)
http://www.facebook.com/mmanastireanu Marius Manastireanu
They removed her tattoo .. :)
http://www.facebook.com/mmanastireanu Marius Manastireanu
They removed her tattoo .. :)
Rob Luckins
I think it depends what effect you are after. I like it when the sky blows out and you end up with blue tinges around the edge that go to pure white when you get to the sun, like in the images above. Maybe if you had a huge reflector it might bring the subjects brightness up enough to expose them and the sky correctly but I wouldn’t want to be the poor assistant holding that reflector!
Rob Luckins
I think it depends what effect you are after. I like it when the sky blows out and you end up with blue tinges around the edge that go to pure white when you get to the sun, like in the images above. Maybe if you had a huge reflector it might bring the subjects brightness up enough to expose them and the sky correctly but I wouldn’t want to be the poor assistant holding that reflector!
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1282195163 Charles Sanabria-Skaar
Same here! That was my first question!
http://profile.yahoo.com/NBLMTA2DKZE5HGX2E6364PISWU Ero
I think strobes will be always in fashion pros bag, because most of the time they like to go easiest and fastest way, but natural light is so beautiful and in my case I try to avoid strobes till my last breath :) Though I am just wedding photographer :)
Kestas
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http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=602117972 Kevin Younger
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