'Studio Lighting' 1st Shoot

Test shot with Isaac, fellow photographer

 

Studio Lighting Set Up

The opportunity arose to shoot some studio profile portraits of the presenters of Frequency Radio. As I was fairly novice to using the studio environment I felt that this would be a challenging introduction into use of the space, allowing me to direct the sitters and whilst also introducing myself. The brief was to shoot the presenters in a similar style to the portraits of the Radio 1 presenters- black and white, simple lighting, white background, etc. with the images having to be of a largely uniform nature. I directed the largely uncomfortable subjects to promote and try to showcase their personality trying to ease them and comfort them as much as possible.  I chose to incorporate the visual research I had done thus far for this first experimentation. Using a beauty dish, angled to the side of the subject, with a white bouncer to soften the shadow on the side of the face and a single back light. I was happy with the resulting images, a selection of which I've shown, which displays my sculpturing of the light to frame the face, exhibiting the subject in a voyeuristic manner allowing the viewer to make their own deductions of the personality and individuality of the sitters. Although, these images demonstrate that because of the subjects edginess to being photographed the photographic portrait doesn't completely capture the subject, the image is not the 'whole truth.'