LIGHT IT UP !!!
During a recent corporate video shoot, I got a chance to play around with some of the awesome lighting kit on hand, and trial it out for portrait purposes. I think that by far my favourite were the fluorescent products from Kino Flo – yes, their Diva-Lite 401 product. For this shot, I positioned one diva kit above the gentleman’s right shoulder (left of the screen as you look at the image), attached a Flozier diffuser & a silver Louver to both focus and scatter the beam, and then used a Sunbounce reflector disc to fill in the shadows on his dark side. The barn-doors are so accurate, they totally clip the light into a very useable corridor (though i eventually covered them with the diffuser), and whilst it’s not a strobe sync product, i find the intensity of the beam so good that I can push down to lower ISOs without fatally compromising on shutter speed! There is very little need for post processing – pretty much everything is done in-camera!
Set against the backdrop of the City of London, I think the result is an imposing and important portrait that keeps the attention focussed on the piercing eyes!
Shot on a Canon EOS 5D mk3, 24-105mm lens at 105mm, f 5.0, ISO 100, 1/160 sec.
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