Two weeks ago I did a shoot of Beth Newburger Schwartz and Michele Berman for the 2010 Balls & Galas issue of Washington Life Magazine at the Park Hyatt in Washington D.C. Make-up was provided by Carl Ray, who is an amazing make up artist.
The space we were to shoot in was very limited with only 7 ft. ceilings, but we were still able to pull off something that the editor loved. Due to the limited amount of space, we decided to go with a three light setup and use the white wall to camera left as a fill. We used a Westcott Spiderlite TD5 with an Umbrella as the main light, another TD5 with a Medium Softbox as the combined kicker and hair light, and a TD3 as the background light to give some depth to the scene. If you are looking to buy a kit like this, check out Adorama. If you buy one of those kits, you will pretty much be able to take great portraits in any situation; I have used them for years.
Below you will see a graphic with the lighting setup I used and a picture of the actual page in the magazine:
Lighting Setup:
Magazine Page:
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Bravo! Nice job on this photo shoot for us. I particularly enjoyed the technical write up.
John Arundel
Associate Publisher
Washington Life magazine
Great job! Super images!