Kris D'Amico Photography

January 13th, 2009 by Kris

I don’t pretend to have all the answers, so this is just one way that I’ve been able to archive this look. As we progress I plan on sharing with you the sucesses from my studio explorations.

So here’s the setup, 1 1600Watt Alien Bee, 1 3021BPRO Manfrotto Tripod that has a 808RC4 Head, a few 15lbs. obnoxious orange sandbags, a decent amount of black foam core, an old door, and a big white wall. See, like this . . .

Lighting Setup for Studio Window Light

Well, with the light bouncing off that white wall, I’m basically making a cloudy sky and by using the foam core, I’m making a “window.” Well, sure I could have shot this in front of a window on a cloudy day, but this way this sun will never set. Anyway, truth be told there are much easier ways to do this, just figured I share this example! Here’s what the shot’s looked like from this shoot:

Window Light Example #1

Window Light Example #2

Window Light Example #3

Window Light Example #4

You can see how we’ve kept a very small specular highlight on the lower right side of the plate, when could have put some diffusion over our “window” of foam core to kill that, but then it might get too flat. Here’s a shot where I did kill that specular highlight by standing a small piece of translucent plastic up in the gap:

Window Light Example #5

And finally the money shot from this set up:

Window Light Example #6

Try it out! Send me your solutions and I’ll post them up. That’s all for now.