As a photography student, we were given an assignment to create a fashion type photograph that told a story. I struggled with the vague idea at first and was overwhelmed at the thought of creating a piece that could be deemed "worthy" within the fashion industry. When I think of fashion, I can think of many top names, but the one brand that came almost immediately to mind was none other than Vogue. With this in mind, I headed to the world wide web to conduct some research in hopes to spark an idea and was successful in doing such. With an idea in hand, I reached out to my trusted model to pitch the shoot details and off we took into full planning mode. With some amazon shopping, local thrifting, location scouting and scheduling nailed, we were ready to go. There were a few setbacks at first with setup as some of the lights weren't exactly cooperating with me. With some tweaks and light swaps, we were eventually creating magic. The images out of camera were good, but not yet great. It was missing something and I couldn't quite wrap my mind around what......at first. One of my professors caught my starting into the sole of the final image longer than anyone should. He took a look and had an idea, and it was just what I needed!

The Setup

The Ambient light was nothing more than overhead lights which allowed for me to have full control utilizing off camera lighting. I used 4 white lightnings. The main light was contained an octobox for overall diffusion with an additional go between as this light was setup on the models left side which was painted white. An additional octobox was used on the main fill light setup camera left. The other 2 lights had grid spots on them at varying degrees. One being a hair light, the other, skimming the bottom half of the model.