This shoot was a continuation of my video project with Bella Torre Make-up Academy in Honolulu. Kecia Littman was demonstrating a beauty make-up technique called “Smokey Eye.” My job was to light the set to show the make-up. 

We started with a variation of my typical beauty lighting scheme (softbox over the camera with a silver reflector on a posing table with reflectors on either side). We moved the 30X40 softbox over to a 3/4 camera right position. We left the silver card on the table and placed a 4’x8’ silver card close to Serena Karnagy camera left. Spotlights were used as hair lights on both sides.

The silver card does exactly what we’d expect from a fill source: it catches the light that spills past Serena and bounces it back in to fill any remaining shadows created by the placement of the main light and table reflector. The “Additive Fill” creates a great lighting  scheme for a glamour beauty image.

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