Model of the corn……

Ok that was a corny remark…..
Well ok that also 😀
So let’s get serious.

 

A lot of times people ask me what they need on location, 2 strobes, 3 strobes?
Well as you can read in many of my blogposts I always say… “whatever you need”
Now that sounds weird because how do you know what you need?

 

In essence you have to understand the light you’re using to know what you need, I always advise to start out with natural and only when you need a different look add strobes, in this case we wanted something more dramatic than natural light and one thing to do this is to lower the ambient light output and put a little bit of strobe on the model. In this case a very cheap small square softbox from Elinchrom fitted to a Quadra ranger RX. How much you lower the ambient is all up to you, how dark do you want the sky to be so to say. My rule in these kind of setups is that I also want to see some detail in the area the model is posing in, so I metered the corn and the sky and based my setting on this, the results (and setup) you can see in the next images.

 

 

And a slightly different look for more drama.