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Some portraits I took of dancer Kevin Tate right before quarantine. Prior to the Covid-19 outbreak he was a dancer in the touring Broadway production of The Lion King. These were shot using the original Canon 5D with a Canon 100mm f/2.8 Macro USM lens and a Canon 50mm f/1.4 lens, and lit using a single Neewer C300 with a soft-box attached and a homemade silver reflector for fill. I also painted the canvas backdrop myself.
Excellent series! The finesse of the shadows make these images! The only thing that gives me a bit of pause is the partial ear in number 2, but that's a personal opinion. It goes to show what you can do with a single light and a reflector.
story_teller wrote:
Excellent series! The finesse of the shadows make these images! The only thing that gives me a bit of pause is the partial ear in number 2, but that's a personal opinion. It goes to show what you can do with a single light and a reflector.
Thank you so much for the wonderful comments and critique!
I absolutely love 1 light setups. Not to say I don't also love to use multiple lights as well, when given the opportunity.
sum1sgrampa wrote:
Beautiful sculpting with light. There's something "cherub" like with the last.
Thank you so much. Sculpting the features of someone's body and face is so important to me when it comes to portraits. Without that sculpting effect you aren't fully capturing the details that make the person in front of the camera physically unique.
Ben10 wrote:
The lighting is fantastic. Please elaborate more on it
Thank you. It's a very simple setup. The light is positioned so that it is at a higher axis than the subject, that way the lighting as a sculpting effect on them, and the reflector is positioned at a lower axis in order to reflects a second catch-light into the bottom of the subject's eyes.
Beautiful work here! Lighting, comps, editing all really work for me.
Only possible tiny nitpick is that it seems the two color images have two pretty different sets of color edits applied, and it’s jarring (to my obsessive eye) to see them side by side.
