Gimme' some COLOR!

This weeks assignment was shooting on white with a theme of black and white. I tried to focus more on the lines and shape of the body. But man'o'man did I crave some color! I played with gels towards the end of the shoot and they turned out being my personal favorite images. Overall I am please with my assignment. I feel like Im getting better each week! The only thing I had a problem with, when it came to making the background pure white, was the ground.

 I enjoy the shape the model's body makes in this image. I lit the backdrop with the bounced lighting and lit the model with the ring flash.

 I played around with having my model step into the bounced light and in front of it. Here is the same lighting scenario of bounced and the model was lit with a large soft box.

 Bounced backdrop. Large soft box on model.

 Here is an example of where the floor wasn't going pure white. Bounce backdrop. Large softbox on model.

Here I wanted more of back-lit feel without fully silhouetting. I turned down the ring flash considerably and turned up the heads bouncing onto the backdrop. 

 Then I started playing with color!!! This totally revived my excitement and creativity. I just put a red/magenta gel on the left bounced head and a blue one on the right. I played around with having the model close to the backdrop and further forward. This was just a reflector with a large grid on the model.

 These next two shots I played with dragged shutter speeds. As I released the shutter, the ring flash would pop and I would quickly pan the camera to the left. This gave me a kind of hazy red effect. I really am happy with these images!