I learned to light after years of deconstructing the work of other photographers. And I know from your previous feedback that you guys are fond of these posts, so let’s dig into another one.
How did I make this picture?
Is it a lucky snapshot?
Is it lit?
If so, how?
The camera Settings?
The direction?
Post production?
Whatever details you think are needed to make this image.
Looking forward to you trying to pick this apart… I’ll reveal everything in a followup post. The person who gets the closest gets… …a chest bump and a pizza, or signed book or something. Don’t be shy. Let er rip.
Shooting above her as she jumps.
Camera settings: F11 1/250th ISO 200
Lighting (Not at all familure with this) Two light set up each at 45 degrees to the rear of the subject. Light to camera left is the main and the right is fill.
Post-production: A bit of contrast adjustment, and sharpening.
You’re on the floor facing up behind a glass, and she is standing on a glass, and she is not really jumping, she is posed similar to this. http://media.collegepublisher.com/media/paper876/stills/cnke4622.jpg
Which is why the tip of her planted, her right foot has no lighting on it?
I’m going to guess the lights would be rear right. And camleft. is actually… up high. aiming down at her. So… her upper body is around a 90 degree actually facing downward. Face looking to the side.
Background is either black/dark ceiling and not illuminated because the lighting you used to light her is either facing downward angle.
Gonna guess…
80 shutter
f18
ISO…. 800
Don’t know if the plexi was used, but if it was, then she’d probably be sitting on it, then you’d be shooting from above, maybe on an aluminum step ladder. And if that were the case, the lights would be at least floor level, 1 of them on either side, making them slightly behind her. This explains the highlights on either sides and the really high contrast. There might be a fill card on the right of camera so that there’d be details/exposure in her face and chest(plus, you can see that her right arm is crazy ripped). In post, it might just be changing contrasts and increasing details. The lights might be rectangular softboxes because if they were bare, there wouldn’t be details for the seams on the right side of her dress. Camera might be a fullframe with a 35/50mm set at f/6.3~8 with a maximum shutter sync speed 1/200 so the back would black out.
If the plexi wasn’t used, I think it’d be almost the same except you’d be shooting rapid fire because she’d be jumping like crazy until you get “the one.”
This is an older shoot.
Shoot on film.
Tmax film at ASA 3200 (at 6400 it holds very little mids)
Using tungsten stage lighting provided by the theater.
If she was on pointe on plexi glass then I suspect the camera would have to be quite close to her foot and you’d really struggle to get sufficient DOF to have both feet in focus. I think a bit of distance as well as a small aperture would have been required.