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Location
I shot this at a four and a half star hotel in a one of the US major cities. I generally don't mention specific hotels because some of them can be protective of their brand and not understand the difference between non commercial personal work like this shot is and commercial work. The model is a friend of mine.Time
It was actually pretty late in the evening. We had been running late all day so we didn't even check in till about 9 pm. This was the second look in terms of make up, so by the time we got around to shooting this it was around midnight.Lighting
I believe this set up was two hot lights with barn doors. The one for the face being on a boom and one for the back being on C stand with two gelled speedlites being used as well.Equipment
Canon 5D Mark III, Canon L 24-70, Tripod, Yongnuo Speedlites, Lowel DP lights.Inspiration
We had planned on doing a shoot with some portraits and some boudoir. I wanted to mix the lighting and look I had been using in my personal work series "Scenes" with the boudoir look. The "Scenes" series started as my thesis project in grad school and the basic idea is using color to express emotions in photographs of people in dark, gritty and mysterious scenes. In the series I used high intensity lighting to create a cinematic look with mixed lighting with heavy use of blues, reds and warm light. I wanted to bring that aesthetic to my boudoir work and this was the result.Editing
I did my typical post processing on this shot. Some global adjustments for brightness, contrast, color, saturation and sharpening in light room then more local adjustments in photoshop. After that, I did do some smoothing of the skin and removed a lamp on the right side of the frame that I determined was competing w/ the model to much.In my camera bag
Canon 5D Mark III and Mark II, Canon L series f/2.8 24-70mm version 1, f/2.8 70-200 version 1, f/2.8 17-35, Canon 580ex II speedlite, Yongnuo Speedlites, flash and SD memory cards, rechargeable batteries, gorilla tape, gel sample books, larger gel sheets and a cable release.Feedback
Think about you're lighting beforehand, determine the looks you want and what you need to get that. Using a boom stand opposed to a C stand can be very helpful when you're shooting in a tight location like this too. Be patient and work with a model who is patient. If you don't take the time to tweak the lighting to you feel its just right, your photo will show and look sloppy.
