Wow Ben beautiful shots and beautiful lady. I'm a litle bothered by the hands in 18 and 13 but that's being nitpicky!

I love the lighting please share your setup so others can learn from it.

Great stuff.

Cris...

Ben, really nice!!! Please do share your lighting set up for some of these and your post production.

@cris and noellez, thanks for the compliments.... the lighting setup for all the shots are the same I just move the lights according to the talents angle.

- 1 light with a barn door, camera left with a "bookend" behind talent to block light flare
- 1 light with a striplight, camera right with a "bookend" behind talent
- 1 light with a 40x40 inch softbox on camera left at 9 o'clock
- reflector infront of camera to reflect backlight to the talents face and create a catchlight of the talents eyes.
- a white bookend place at camera right to wrap the light around the talents shadow side of her face.
- there are no background light for the backdrop

post process:
- mainly dodge and burn, vignette, added a bit of contrast to pop the image, lucis art, and some eddie tapps softening effect "dream glow"

hope this helps.

ben

Ben, very nice. She's beautiful, and you captured her wonderfully. Love #6,7,9,15

Ben, Love 3, 6, 7, 10 & 19.
On #7, did you do anything special to the rim light on the models Left side?
It's a very nice Golden color.

Hey Ben, I just want to make sure I understand your lighting setup, I have not used bookends so I wanted to clarify a little. Do you mean that you have the bookends behind the model and the lights are shooting into the bookends and reflecting back onto the model? Then the softbox and another bookend infront of her?

Thanks