Loved Portraits

13/ Pocket Universe

One cup of saturated red salt solution, 

Add one pin in the cup to help crystalize,

Put for 5 months to dry completely.

The interior of the cup, the crystalized salt looks like universe.

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Bottom of the cup

Cup profile

12/ Portrait, Lisa

11/ Portrait Lisa

10/ Studio Portrait, Nathan

9/ Sunlight, Rooftop light portrait, Daqi

Used the rooftop window light, afternoon around 3pm.

And diffused a little bit with a light scrim jim.

8/ Still life, The Last Reservoir

7/ Zoe Ghertner, interior portrait

Mar 1

ellipsoidal spotlight

large softbox

Portrait to emulate: Zoe Ghertner

attempt diagram

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Final portrait

final diagram

6/ Osma Harvilahti for Tank Magazine Spring 2016

Feb22

sky light, 4 strobes
2 reflectors

Portrait to emulate

attempt diagram

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photo credit: Lisa

final Diagram

5/ Steven Meisel for Vogue Italia

Feb 16

2 lights portrait

Beauty dish + small softbox

Beauty dish + big softbox

by Steven Meisel

Diagram for 1

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Adele

final diagram for 1

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by Steven Meisel

Diagram for 2

Example 2 not good result

4/ Richard Learoyd for Day For Night

Feb 9

1 Octabank - main light
1 small softbox - fill light for the neck, create semi-sharp shadow
1 small softbox besides camera - fill light, balance shadow, very dim
1 strobe - background light

Portrait to emulate, by Richard Learoyd

lighting diagram

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Revise after class:

Main light could be the small softbox to the right, and the huge octabank as a fill light.

Classical background, dark side face use lighter background.

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emulated portrait

Final lighting diagram

3/ Horst Diekgerdes fashion shoot

Feb 2

Horst Diekgerdes for fashion work
1 beauty dish

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Emulated portrait, model: Naitian Yang

final lighting setup diagram

2/ Horst Diekgerdes for Charlotte Gainsbourg

Jan 26

Emulate Horst Diekgerdes for Charlotte Gainsbourg

Creamy seamless/ (if not, light grey)
Medium softbox
strobe with small diffuser

Lighting sketch 1.0

Portrait to Emulate, by Horst Diekgerdes

Portrait for reference, by Horst Diekgerdes

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Revise:

1. 2 layers of the setup, front n back lit separately for more control.

2. shadow below chin is the place both two strobes cannot hit, so it appears so dark.

1/ Dan Winters for Tom Hanks

Jan 18

Emulate Dan Winter's portrait of Tom Hanks

Grey background

Softbox

Strobe

Black flag

Ringflash

lighting sketch 1.0

Portrait to emulate, by Dan Winters

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Revise after class:

1. This is a typical 3-light portrait: 1 main, 1 fill and 1 background;

2. Dan Winters uses ring-flash as fill light, for the whole shadow face;

3. Dan Winters' early portrait seldom use softbox, but a lot of flags to "retouch" the light;

4. The shadow of the nose is 2, 1 harsh and centered, and the other soft and around.

5. Background has strong vignette: maybe the background strobe doesn't have softbox.

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Jan 25th

Emulate

Emulate Portrait, Forrest

Lighting Setup:

Mistake:
A small diffuser in front of strobe wouldn't work;
Both shadows are too harsh;
Guess need a way more bigger diffuser than this, and cover the higher half of face.