All her portraits are done in her studio using window lighting for its natural softness. The studio has a full glass wall down one side to allow plenty of natural light in, with multi sky lights above. Sometimes she uses elinchrom flash bounced off the white ceiling and walls to create enveloping light like natural light when working with very active babies. Rachael uses multiple props including bathtubs, miniture washing lines, bowls of fruit, coloured wall paper backgrounds, flowers etc where as photographer Suzette Nesire who also uses natural lighting prefers to use simple props e.g. rugs and crops in tighter. Rachael likes to develop concepts for her images prior to her shoot e.g. the baby holding a strawberry in her gallery was to show just how tiny their hands actually are.
More and more photographers seem to be moving towards building their studio to incorporate natural lighting for its softness. Do you know of any others?
I know one photographer who has setup studio at the back of his house but not sure how he has it organised, athough he does focus on kids. I am not a fan of a lot of props with babies and kids but this does work if the aim is for marketing/promotional material. Still nice though
ReplyDeleteI wonder if you have insufficient light on rainy days or shadows from cloud edges between the sun and the skylight. Maybe smog could be an issue or reflections off nearby infrastucture. I think you would need to view a time lapse of a whole day to check for lighting anomalies in the studio or put in diffusing glass which may knock out 2 stops of light
ReplyDeleteyer natural lighting is the best. its free :)
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