Duin en kruidberg Pt III

Today part III in the series on the workshop I taught at Duin en kruidberg with Manon (styling by Nadine).

 

After shooting inside it was time to go outside.
For this workshop we did a day to night setup, the reason I often do this during the workshops is that it’s a great technique to show metering techniques. In essence what you have to do is determine the dynamic range in the shot and calculate the settings for the strobes for this (something I explain in depth during the workshops, instructional videos, or my book Mastering the model shoot). In short you meter the darkest part of the scene reflective and set your strobes between 4 and 4.5 stops higher (incident on your model) this way you can always use your shutter speed to let in more ambient light to make the background lighter.

 

The first setup we used was behind the hotel.

 

Model: Manon
Styling: Nadine
MUA: Christa
Assistants : Annewiek & Chaim

 

After this we went back inside (next blogpost), but we returned outside for the final setup.

 

In the final setup I used two Elinchrom ranger RX speeds with Maxilights.
One was setup on our model Manon and one was placed behind her to create a nice accent light and some lens flare.
The lights were added in Photoshop.