Sean, you disect well.


Shadow assumption: Correct


Glare assumption: CorrectThat is reflected light off a large photoflex screen. I wanted large speculars...remember Lighting 102.


Blue assumption/correction: Correct


3 pictures: Correct...excellent work


1 Light: Wrong"3": 1) Snooted (Honl 8") 1/2 CTB rear/above camera rightfull power 2)Large Specular bouncedFull CTO gel full power 3)Key-front light1/2 CTO gel 1/16th power very close (you can see the head in the last shot.) I was trying to cut down on the back shadows.


The second image, (all lights, one shot) unfortunately, I believe is the one they're going to use. I love a snooted blue rim light but couldn't get it to fly with all the white involved. Actually, that's just a piece of cheap poster paper curled up to make a seamless BG. So, I figured the only way it was going to fly was to build it from the back light up. I turned off the other strobes and shot........





To my suprise the snooted backlight made a really nice triangular highlight around the light curtain pair. The problem is the two long dark black shadows caused by the light curtain sensors. That's easy enough to remedy........





So the final image is just a composite of the three with this one being the first (before I moved the sensors....oh crap! take two!)





I did a few takes. 20-25 shots to get this figured out. This is the first time I've tried a composite to control light and color. I thought it turned out sort of cool. Whether they use or not is no biggy. It was a fun assignment and fun to get to share something here.