suggestions on how to achieve this lighting

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mattfarkash

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I was looking to get suggestions on lighting set ups for this reference. I was thinking of using four lights. maybe two 650s with a red gel for sides with the right one be a little less harsh (maybe throw up a 250diff flag in from of that one) and then using two lights (one with a blue gel one the left) and then another light with no gels. All of these would of course be flagged off to shape on the subject but I was wondering if there was better ways to achieve this set up.

The subject would be a light skin african american girl and we would be shooting outside in a desert background at night.

Thanks!!!

Matt
 
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Im considering wether the blue might simply be make-up....
Btw... Its a night shot outside right? 650 isnt going to get you lighted up in broad daylight...
 
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I think you're fairly well on the right path. That guy def. has blue make up on along with a diff. color makeup along his opposite collar bone.
 
Basic premise seems ok - just a case of lamp movement to exaggerate the form of the subject. David Beckham is pretty defined, bone and musculature wise - same with your subject.]

On potential problem is that this kind of oblique lighting will reveal every bump, lump, pimple and zit your subject has - and if they have less than perfect skin, will be quite tricky. Lee filter have a range of what they call cosmetic colours which can help with disguising the bumps and lumps as it has a diffusing effect too. They don't do it in really saturated colours, though - so you may need to use a bit of diffuser too if you want to avoid the moon landscape effect.
 
Mitch Gross said:
That's lighting, not blue makeup. I count at least four light sources in the image.
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Im pretty sure you're wrong about the make-up... look how it ends on his neck. There's no tonality... no wrapping around. It just stops. There could be a fourth light source, yes... because we are seeing a highlight on his left cheekbone, but the color is most likely put on with metallic blue make-up.
 
I agree with make-up. It;s too specific. Look at how it stops at the nose and mouth. It looks too soft to stop abruptly like that. If it was harsh like that then there's no indications of shadows cause by the blue light that the white is filling in.

I also think some of it could have been post. Feels very unnatural.
 
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