A couple of weeks ago I had the pleasure of working with the awesome Faith Roswell, someone I wish I had worked with so much sooner! She was the sweetest, nicest person and absolutely killer at making costumes & posing.

As you would have seen on my previous ‘Sneak Peak’ post, you will see that we shot 3 different looks on our shoot. I also did a bit of timelapse recording of our shoot to create a little behind the scenes video. I used to create these kind of videos all the time, and its something I wish to pick up again! Unfortunately on this occasion my stand holding the phone was a bit damaged, and I didn’t notice it had moved and tilted the phone. So, its not the best recording angle due to this, but you get the idea. I will make sure to use a different stand next time. I also forgot to put it on for the last look, so there is only the first 2 looks!

My lighting set up mostly involved using 3 – 4 lights, 2 o which are Bowens Geminis, and 2 a simply battery speed lights. For our first set, which was the blue, I had a snoot to the left of Faith hitting her shoulder and side, to her right I had a softbox with a red gel in. At her front, I had my beauty dish with honeycomb grid aiming down towards her, and underneath that aiming up I had a reflector dish with a diffuser and blue gel on it – basically forming a clam shell. The shadows with the colours really makes this set more dynamic I feel, especially with Faiths expressions and posing.

My second light set up was similar to the first, in that it involved using the clam shell lighting again, this time with a green gel on the bottom. To the left of Faith I had the softbox with a red gel, and to the right up high I had a translucent white umbrella aiming down to catch the hair.

My final set up, I used the same as the second, and just changed the green gel to orange, and added a yellow gel to my umbrella to give more warmth to the hair. This look was wasteland warrior inspired, so I wanted to use warm colours to give a apocalyptic feel.

I really enjoyed this shoot, and after having a bunch of last minute cancellations, it was lovely to work with someone reliable. and who put their all into what they do. Already looking forward to our next collaboration!

JL x