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.