Tamlyn photos

Yesterday (Wednesday) it was Tamlyn’s turn again to be my model during the glamour workshop.
As mentioned before on this blog I absolutely love the glamour workshops, during these workshops I always try to keep the workshop as “free” as possible. Just like the advanced workshops there is a lot of attention for the more “portfolio” like shots. And with Tamlyn we always have a great model with lots of possibilities.

During this workshop we started out with a simple setting where Tamlyn was sitting in a chair and she was lit by only one strip light with grid.
I love this way of lighting because you can really point the light exactly where you want it to go. A strip light without a grid is also great of course but adding a grid really makes a huge difference. In our studio we use the grids from Lighttools and we fitted one on the Deep Octa and one on a Chimera striplight.

After the sitting pose we moved Tamlyn to the wall and did a small session were the main attention was on controlling contrast and coaching the model, especially the part on how NOT to coach your model is the part I love to do and I can go all out which often results in hilarious situations 😀

For today we decided it would be nice to experiment a bit with a mirror and see what we could do with it.

In the first setup I used the mirror to mirror Tamlyn in a standard setup as you would expect a mirror to be used.
After this however we changed the whole setup and put Tamlyn on top of the mirror for first some standard shots, but we ended with a more special effects shot which you can see in the top of this blog post, the added flare was for me something that attracted me in this shot, but also something that a lot of photographers will probably not shoot, during the workshops I always try to also do something that normally you would not shoot or think that it would never work.
We often call these setups “Crazy lightsetups that might or might not work, but actually almost always does”.

Here is my selection of images.

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