Today was the day that I had organised for some models to come along for a casting for our final production. It was also an opportunity for me and Salvador (lighting lead) to work together to test the lighting.
The lighting references that we looked at were from Jill Greenberg:
Greenberg uses quite a number of lights which give a very dramatised and plastic look to the subjects. She hasn't just used this for photographing humans, Greenberg has also photographed bears, monkeys and other animals with the final outcome being this same plastic look.
The lighting for our image is as important as the casting, without the correct model and the correct lighting the narrative will not work and the final image will just look like a pastiche of a 1950's dining room.
Lighting diagrams for the day:
This was the first set up that we had, which gave an alright look but we were not keen on it as the beauty dish was putting far too much light on to the background, we did a few quick tests on each other before the first model came in but changed the set up after she had left as we were still not happy.
Fortunately for the next set up we had quite a bit of time before the next model came in so we were able to get a much better lighting set up than before and this one really gave us the plastic dramatised look that we were going for.
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