For the next image in my Crime? series, I wanted to do something drug related. I fixed a few ideas in my head as to how I envisaged the final scene, though I had a few problems deciding how I’d get drugs of some kind into the scene, yet still maintain the degree of ambiguity around which the project revolves. Having done a little research, I put together a wrap of cocaine (icing sugar) and got some tobacco and large rizlas to use as my props, booked a hotel room at the Crowne Plaza by Manchester Airport with some Air Miles I’ve been accruing (I did try to blag it for a couple of hours, but they were having none of it!), and arranged to meet Amy there (the great model I used in this earlier shoot).
For both the images, the weather outside was so grey and drab that I made a decision to draw the curtains and just use a selection of the lights in the room combined with a couple of SB900s. For the first image (Amy sat at the desk), I positioned one strobe immediately to her left, on a stand with a shoot through umbrella wedged between the window and the desk. I popped another strobe camera right on the other side of the bed from Amy, so about 2 – 2.5 metres away from here with a snoot directed straight at her.
Lighting Setup for Drugs shoot from Crime? Project
Drugs2 from Crime? Series by Neil Alexander
For the next image with Amy walking through the door into the room, I positioned a light and a shoot through umbrella just inside the bathroom door to her right, and another back camera right diffused just to try and boost the background light a little. I experimented quite a bit with this scene, but I think that the halo effect of the pin light in the ceiling reflecting off the door around Amy’s head make this one.
Lighting setup for Drugs2 from Crime? Project
Just canned another one for this project so I’ll post again soon.
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