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Lighting Diagram #2

This was shot was done a year ago in a studio in downtown la. I was there shooting album artwork of Alexia from Eyes Set to Kills solo project, but was sharing the day with a film crew shooting her music video. Since we had the down time and the studio space, I was pre-lighting some different sets in the studio and happened upon this set. It was a 10x40 foot room completely covered in metallic wall paper. The cool thing about some of these large film studios is, these sets were made with the intention of being filmed, so a lot of the composition and feel of the image is already there. 

Like a majority of my work, this image was lit real simply. Two Profoto lights. One being used as the Key Light (Main Light) with an octabank softbox. The second light was bare bulb at the back of the room on a stand. The complex parts come in the refining and quality of light. Aka just play with it, find what fits the feel of the image. How far to move the subject away from the light, what angle and direction the light is falling on the subject, are how the look is achieved. 

The post work done on this image is simply a an image I shot of a flock of birds at a train station in Florence masked over the original with an overlay filter. I then deleted the parts of the bird image off of Gregs face to create the effect that the birds were flying behind him. I did some quick sharpening, color, and contrast and there you have it.

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