I lit Mina with a Lupolux Quadlight with grid attachment. It created a pool of beautiful soft light. The object d’art are lit with a scatter gel on a Lupolux 650 LED spotlight. Here are a few pictures from a recent styled shoot event.
Model – Mina Renoir
Gown – Molly Mishi May
Fascinator – Annabel Allen – UK Milliners Guild
Hair Stylist – Lukas Szejka
MUA – Red Roots
Styling – Sue Fyfe-Williams (Stylist SFW)
Camera: Fuji X-T1 with 23mm, 35mm and 56mm lenses (all wide open).
The Venetian stripes were created using a Lupolux 1000 LED spotlight through a Venetian blind attached to a lighting stand.
There is no retouching in this set, just a bit of dodge and burn in Lightroom recreating the same look and feel I used to create when printing by hand from film negatives back in the last century. This is very unforgiving but creates that timeless authentic look that skin softening etc in Photoshop kills. I edited each of these shots in 60 seconds or less. I used to be able to make 4 hand prints an hour under the enlarger. That’s why I love digital working so much. I do miss the smell of fix though :)
Please feel free to comment on the pictures or techniques used.
A masterpiece!
Thank you Petre :)
Beautiful set as always Mr Lovegrove. I think I’m well overdue to attend one if your lighting courses.
Hi Dennis, Thanks for your kind words. I’m running a few UK workshops in London this year. Or you can join me in Hamburg, Amsterdam, Cambodia or Italy :)
Kind regards,
Damien.
Thanks Steve, Your kind words are really appreciated. I’m enjoying working with a team again. I’ve been shooting on my own for a while and now Sue Fyfe Williams has brought another dimension to my work.
Brilliant job as usual. The lighting is spectacular and make both the model & dress look fantastic.
It looks as if you are enjoying the X-T1?