Bring out the Gimp!

Had a very interesting shoot yesterday with some fetish-gear. Lots of shiny latex with all kinds of studs and rings thrown in.

The client wanted the photos to be very dramatic with mostly a black background. Black on Black? Never a good idea. To solve this problem I used two Softboxes with grids on shining from the sides of the model. The lights were carefully set to make sure that no light falls on the background. Normally I would use a light like this paired with a reflector from the front to make sure the persons face is brought out of the shadows. For this photo though i chose not to, getting a Rorshach Test effect on the face that seemed to please the client. With this amount of light i ended up shooting at f16 at 1/160.

Here is a little bit of diagram to show the setup.