Session with LT

This week we booked a session with LT and Suzanne van Duijn.
Suzanne approached me if I was willing to work out something with bright colors and some “funky” styling. Well when someone asks me something like that I’m all ears. Because LT has a lot of B&W and more “faded” colors in her portfolio she was the perfect for this session, or in other words “let’s give her some more color in her portfolio”.

The Team :
Model : LT van de Kletersteeg
MUA : Suzanne van Duijn
Assistant : Wendy Appelman
Photographer : Frank Doorhof

The set
The set was build the day before the shoot.
We used two large panels with pink wallpaper and connected both so they could not fall over, there is some carpet on the bottom so we can easily move them around the studio, I have several of those panels in the studio, but it was the first time we connected them to make a corner, which worked rather well.

First flat light
For the first setup I used the Elinchrom 1.90 octa and one open reflector from the top aimed down for a nice accent on LT’s hair and upper body.

Adding a bit more contrast
Somehow I love to add a bit more contrast to my shots.
So for the next setup I choose the Elinchrom Maxilight with grid and aimed this under an angle to create a nice harsch but still “friendly” light. For me this transformed the set to a bit more mystic/fairytale like setup.

Going wide
The wide angle lens is often forgotten in fashion shoots, and although I have to admit that it doesn’t always work there are some cases where the wideangle simply put rocks. For the next shots I used the Mamiya 35mm which on the Medium Format system is a rather wide angle lens. By using this lens you can get some nice “surreal” images which I wanted to get a different look for this session.

This is also something you always have to remember, the more different looks you can squeeze out of one set/setup will give the customer (and in this case our team) more options to choose from, I do like the more flat light images I showed at the start of this blog post, but I LOVE the more contrasty ones, however maybe someone else likes the others more. By using different “setups”/”looks” you can make sure there is always something for everyone in your team. HOWEVER if you really don’t like an image or look DON’T give them away. In the end you will be judged on those images, so as mentioned before I do like the flat light images, if I would not they would have not been delivered to the team.

So here are the wide angle shots.

Video
During the session Wendy and I shot some backstage material.
You have seen these videos before but we did it slightly different this time (I hope you can see it), instead of using the Canon HF11 camera we shot with 2 Canon 5DMKII’s I was experimenting with the Cinestyle settings (which I really liked) and will be using more for our videos. I edited the video in Final Cut Pro X and we will show you that tomorrow on the blog, so you will have to wait for one day 😀

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