Feet flowers
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Location
The photo was taken in my home studio in England, West Yorkshire and it is one of my favourite photos of feet I ever took :-)Time
It was about noon time. I made it quite dark in the room though and use dark blanket as a backdrop.Lighting
I more or less blacked out all the natural light. The room was made quite dark, dark background and I used ISO 100 to make sure it is all dark in camera and then set up two flashguns off camera. I moved them around the feet in a circle to find the lighting I like the most. I did not use any light modifiers to have increased contrast on the shoe texture.Equipment
I used my Nikon D750 (full frame digital mirror camera), lens Nikkor 24-70mm f2.8, Manfrotto tripod and two Hahnel Modus 600rt flashguns on lightstands without any modifiers with wireless trigger. The camera setting was focal length 45mm, f5.6, 1/200 and ISO100Inspiration
I was asked to take picture of these shoes and when I searched the internet I have not find any images doing them a justice. They definitely look much better on feet than off feet, I generally like dark background, and I like my shoes images to be with increased contrast. I kind of had an image in my head how I would like it to look and then moved the lights little bit till I was happy with the angles of shadows and light patterns.Editing
I smoothed the skin a bit and increased clarity on the shoes. And of course I then flipped the same image an attached it bellow the first image and cropped it in a portrait format.In my camera bag
Nikon D750, 24-70mm f2.8 Nikon lens, 70-200 f2.8 Nikon lens and at least one Hahnel Modus 600rt flashgun.Feedback
It is very easy to create dark background if you keep your lights pretty close to the subject and leave a bit of distance between the subject and the background. You block the natural light in the camera by setting the ISO low and narrowing the aperture. Most of the shoes have very nice texture or other interesting details so I don't use any light modifiers, trying to use as hard light as possible from the side of the subject to make the texture pop. Although it does not work so well if you have any very reflective surfaces on the subject :-) The very good trick to modify the light patterns while taking picture is to when you are happy with the set intensity of light(s) move the lights around your subject in a circle at the same distance without changing your settings and watch the shadows change till you get the look you desire.
