Imaginary Daughter

Kristin and I have worked together a number of times..remember 'splendour in the grass'? Kristin has started a band, and it's called 'Imaginary Daughter'. So were thinking of finding an image for say a promo image. This time we worked in the studio, with make up and hair courtesy of the talented Shannon. Just a softbox at camera right and a white card to the right for fill. And the table of course. I

Softlighter II portraits.

Judson and I were asked to give a quick demonstration of the Softliter II (the one Annie Leibovitz uses) for portraits. This set up used a Softliter sl-5000 (the mid sized one) and a profoto head for the top portraits (Hey Paige!) , and a Canon 580x II for the bottom one (Mister Plax Photo trying to get the perfect Rembrandt...). Strobe was high on camera left and bounced on a white board to camera right. We used a 5D Mark II with 24-70 f2.8 USM Canon lens. You can see the Softliter reflected on the window...