Photo plus Day 3: 40’s Hollywood Glamour

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40's Glamour, 40's Hollywood Glamour, Expoimaging, Expoimaging Rogue Flashbenders, Hedy Lamarr, Nikon SB800, Nikon SB910, Phottix, Phottix Ares Radio Triggers, Rogue

Hi and welcome back.

For my last presentation at the Expoimaging booth, I did 40’s style Hollywood Glamour.

This has become my signature look with the Rogue Flashbenders, and I totally love it.

The light is hard and contrasty and produces deep shadows.  This is a look that needs to be retouched in PS as the light is so bright and hard on skin: it shows every blemish there is!

This is my basic setup for this look:

Key: SB910 @ 1/8 power with Small Rogue Flashbender as a snoot

Hair: SB800 @ 1/4 power with Large Rogue Flashbender as a snoot

Back: SB800 @ 1/4 power with a 25º Rogue Grid on a Gray Backdrop

Here is a color version and then a B/W.  I’ve been doing all of my B/W conversions lately in Alien Skin.  It is an amazing software for creative effects.

Then I tried a single light headshot that was inspired by a photo I saw of Hedy Lamarr.

This is a single SB800 with a Large Rogue Flashbender as a snoot:

I love, love this style of lighting as it is so direct and hard.  Want soft light, go elsewhere!

Many thanks to Expoimaging for having me in their booth and to Julie Dawson for being an amazing model for me and all the photographers in the booth.

Till next time, happy shooting.

Hollywood Glamour with Speedlights

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black and white, CT Headshot Photographer, CT Photographer, CT Professional Photographer, headshots, Hollywood Glamour, Nikon SB800, Nikon SB910, Phottix, Phottix Mitros, Rogue Flashbenders

Hi and welcome back.  

Over the weekend I ran a small, intimate workshop on the Hollywood Glamour look of the 40’s, in the style of George Hurrell.  

I shoot this look with three speedlights for hard and contrasty light on my subject for deep shadows.  I try to replicate the look of the hotlights of the era.  

Key: Phottix Mitros, Small Rogue Flashbender as snoot, Phottix SP 200 battery pack

Hair: SB910, Large Rogue Flashbender as snoot

Background: SB800, 16 degree Rogue Grid

All my lights are set at 1/4 power in manual mode to start and then I adjust from there.  

Here’s the bts with the lights firing. 

And here’s a final. 

I finished the image in Photoshop using Totally Rad Actions Portrait Retouch V2, used Totally Rad Actions Bitchen B/W for the conversion, and Nik Color Effex Pro for a glamour glow.  

This is a great and fun technique that really emulates the work of the Hollywood b/w era.  

I am going to try and shoot this look this weekend at Berger Camera if there is time.  If you are in NYC or LI, swing in to Berger Camera in Huntington and join the workshop there.  It’s a shooting workshop, so bring your camera!

Berger Morning Session

Berger Afternoon Session

And if you like Totally Rad Actions, then use my coupon code for 15% off of any Totally Rad product: 

Code: 1434rhstudios

That’s it for now.  Till next time, think in black and white!