Placing a model in something as simple as a doorway will help separate your model from the background, as doorways
are (obviously) at the exact opposite end from the room’s far wall. Here, Elite Agency model Jenni stands in the doorway
of a bathroom. Since the bathroom had intense household lighting for the mirror behind her, I chose to drag my shutter
to capture the ambience of this light. With the white bal-
ance set for the flash in front of Jenni, the lighting from
behind registers in all its tungsten warmth. Basically,
this image is a mixture of two types of artificial light:
tungsten (3200K) and electronic flash (5400K). (Note:
For more on light temperature, see chapter 2.) The
main studio flash, a Hensel Integra 500 Pro Plus mono-
light, is outfitted with a Chimera Soft Strip box with a
Lighttools 40-degree grid on the front to prevent light
from spilling onto the mirrored background. Notice that
Jenni’s face is also toward the upper third (camera left)
following the rule of thirds compositional guideline.
(CAMERA: Canon EOS 5D fitted with a Canon 85mm
f/1.2L USM lens. SETTINGS:85mm effective focal length,
(^1) / 25 second shutter speed, f/2.8, white balance at
6000K, ISO 100)