All pictures were take with just one strobe (Elinchrom D-Lite 4) with a 21cm parabolic reflector and a 20° grid. Distance to the model was about 1.5 metres.
 | A simpler lighting setup is hardly possible. |
 | You know that when you put one light source on the right side of the camera and there's nothing on the left (not even a reflector), you'll have to deal with strong shadows on the right side of the model. In fact, this was exactly the effect I was looking for. I asked the model to keep looking in the direction of the strobe, otherwise half of his face would have been covered with shadows as well. I didn't want that in this case. |
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 | Simple attributes can help to give a the model a more relaxed pose. The sunglasses in this case were used for this purpose. |
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