What type of lighting/flash used to create this?

Particularly interested in knowing how the interior shots were taken (lighting specifically) - I have a shoot coming up this weekend (one of my first!) and the apartment is going to be darker than the others I've shot at recently where I used natural light and reflectors, so I get the feeling I am 100% going to need lighting/flashes/not sure - help!


Any advice greatly appreciated

The reflection in the glasses and the overall soft shadows hint at a single large white umbrella being used. Lighting this way throws light everywhere.

The pictures with distinct shadows have a more directional light and could have been done with a soft box.

jack666 said:

Particularly interested in knowing how the interior shots were taken (lighting specifically) - I have a shoot coming up this weekend (one of my first!) and the apartment is going to be darker than the others I've shot at recently where I used natural light and reflectors, so I get the feeling I am 100% going to need lighting/flashes/not sure - help!

http://www.davidswilliamsphotography.com/men-cats/

Any advice greatly appreciated

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One thing I would suggest is tighter framing. In many of these shots, the background distracts.

SEcond ,the light is very even but it does not hurt to have the main subjects a little brighter than the background or to have a little modelling (shadows).

I like the portrait with the speakers and records in the background because it adds to who the person is

I have had good luck just bouncing a flash off the ceiling or a wall. See (contains nudity) http://www.pbase.com/jcassatt/deanna. The ones of the model changing were done with a single flash on a stand to the left of the photographer. It was pointed towards the ceiling and at an angle towards the rear wall. For the ones posed in the bathroom door, one flash on a stand pointing towards the ceiling located to the left of the photographer and the other in the bathroom.

Depending on the image, it is mostly bounce flash or direct flash.

For interiors with white ceilings, use a old news photographer's trick: put a rubber band around the strobe and place a piece of white cardboard (about 3X6") on the back of the flash head. Fire the flash at the ceiling. You get the best of both worlds: bounce flash with a little fill light to fill in bad shadows.

























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