I'm shooting a new model in about 2 weeks, and I'm a bit rusty on lighting, as it's been about a year and a half since my last shoot (new job makes me travel around the world alot)

These shots are from SHOW magazine, I'm going to post a lighting diagram after each shot, to show how I think it was lit, please feel free to let me know if I'm wrong, and how I would go about trying to duplicate the lighting.

First up
http://i35.tinypic.com/33dy5jb.jpg

my guess at a setup:
http://i34.tinypic.com/xcu1sh.jpg

How I think it was done:
Rose colored background
softbox on both sides, 45 degree angle
ringflash for main model

background was smoothed out in photoshop afterward.


Second shot:
http://i34.tinypic.com/ea63hk.jpg

my guess at the setup:
http://i35.tinypic.com/alke4w.jpg

how I think it was done:

haven't figured out the background light... either 2 softboxes, and then a vigneete applied to darken the edges, or maybe snoots or softboxes with grids.

Beauty dish to photographers left, probably 6-7 feet up

softbox for fill on camera right

photoshop smoothing done to background and model's skin.


anyone think differently?

Thanks.