You saw Maddie in the video below with Samantha — they work together and Sam asked Maddie to do makeup for our shoot. Well Maddie decided it would be fun to get in a few photos herself, so here’s what we churned out in five minutes. She certainly came prepared!
Makeup by Maddie. Lighting was an AlienBees ABR800 Ringflash with Moon Unit diffuser.
…and not much else.
Justine stopped by the studio one day after work and we got up to all sorts of fun. I always fear shooting at the studio at night — not because I’m afraid of the dark — but because I have no natural light to rely on. Things worked out splendidly here, though, as my lighting is reminiscent of the typical Playboy style.
Here’s the break down:
Justine was on a dark brown leather bench, with matching couches in the background. She was lit with an Alien Bees monolight in a medium softbox with gold inserts, positioned really close and to camera left. The highlight on the right side is from a bare Nikon SB-900 in the background, to camera right. All of the background light on the wallpaper is from the table lamp.
These were shot with a Nikon D700 and a Nikkor 105mm f/2.8G ED IF AF-S VR, which might be my new favourite lens. Though the 85mm f/1.4 is really, really fantastic as well, and to this point has been my go-to lens on a D700.
A little preview of what newly blonde Samantha and I got up to in the studio today:
Front: Clamshell lighting with an Alien Bees 1600 on top and a Nikon SB-900 down below. Back: Alien Bees 400 with a yellow gel.
Alien Bees 1600 in a medium softbox above; soft white-gold reflector below.
More from Brandi’s return to the studio. The light in the stairwell was so gorgeous!
More from my studio fitness shoot with Kelly Boone:
Does she look ready for the cover of Oxygen Magazine or what?
And because no one can shoot with me without putting on a bikini:
It’s been nearly three years since my last shoot with Kelly Boone, in December 2007. Because I shot her before I started this blog, I’ve only ever posted one photo of her. But now that’s all gonna change…
Meet the new and improved Kelly! As you can tell from the photo, Kelly has her sights set on the world of fitness modelling, and plans to enter her first competition in the coming year. There’s lots more to come from this shoot, which was my first time shooting this style of fitness (I’d previously done some in a gym).
The lighting here was pretty simple (that’s how I roll), with Kelly being lit by an Alien Bees 1600 in a medium softbox to camera left, an SB-900 in a shoot-through umbrella for a wee bit of fill to camera right, and an Alien Bees 400 to light up the white seamless and also provide a bit of spill to highlight her backside.
Equally as good as the frontside.