Lydia & Simone - Model shoot

This was a model portfolio shoot for Lydia and Simone, 2 beautiful models came from Elite Models Canberra. I told them bring only underwear for this shoot.
Model: Lydia and Simone (Elite Models Canberra)
Makeup: Kylie Bersinic and Charlotte Clark
Location: CIT Studio

First lighting setup was a hikey one, easy with 2 heads and 2 white partitions.
This is the setup shot:

1 head shoot through square softbox overhead and another one through zoom reflector shoot to the white CYC background (it was cover by the partition in this photo)

Here are the results:

Model: Simone

And the second lighting setup for the rest of photos, simple with just one head through square softbox overhead, light reflected by white partitions and white board.

Model: Lydia

Last one was a beauty shot I did on Lydia, makeup by Charlotte Clark

Lighting: 1 square softbox over head and another softbox with much more stronger power bounce to the white floor.

Sam Rooney - Cricket Player

This shoot was for my assignment at school. We supposed to shoot a single portrait of a model to make it look like a magazine editorial. Most of other classmates try female model and do fashion. But I've done female models already in Group Portrait assignment (post will coming soon) so this time I decided to shoot a male model. And I ask Sam (he's boyfriend of Elizabeth Payne in the Ferrari shoot) to help me out with this assignment. And actually, Sam has been played cricket professional for a while so I decided to use that theme.

Here is the lighting setup:

Because I wanted to create a better wrap-around-highlight on Sam so I used 1 large square softbox on a boom and put it high above and on axis with the camera. I added 1 stripbox on camera left to add some more harsh rim light on Sam.
Please notice that we're not allowed to use flash for this assignment so all the lighting I used was only from modeling lamps. So basically, I shoot around f/4, ISO 400 and shutter speed 1/60th

And the results are:

For image processing, I only applied a little Burn and Dodge technique on this photo. Remember that the original photo should already have contrast in highlight and shadow to get more efficiency for this technique.




Next entry will be hair shoot for Priya Chandra, hair stylist: