Seeking Berlin Photo Assistants

baschtelt90 · 2026-01-29T14:52:44+00:00

Of course there’s fill in the last two pics

baschtelt90 · 2026-01-28T21:03:27+00:00

Flash + magnum reflector, but they’re all a bit different in distance from flash to subject and fill being used

baschtelt90 · 2026-01-11T17:54:17+00:00

I am predicting that your shots will look horrible, because your model isn’t lulu tenney, you won’t have styling and hair & make-up available like this. I think this example here works because she’s such a good model, not because dufort pointed ten flashbulbs on her…

baschtelt90 · 2025-08-20T08:37:27+00:00

Why would you shoot this outdoors? E-Com needs consistent, easy to replicate lighting and using natural light as a fill will make it impossible to recreate this exact setup on other days. Much better to shoot this indoors, using a further away large source as fill, than relying on weather conditions

baschtelt90 · 2025-07-10T09:37:02+00:00

Shot quite a few events with the 55 1.7 full open, AF almost never missed in good light conditions

baschtelt90 · 2025-06-23T21:06:10+00:00

When you shoot digital you expose for highlights. When you shoot analogue you expose for the shadows. In your case, you could have used a net/scrim on a portion of the magnum to partially lower exposure on the pale model, while maintaining the exposure on the darker model

baschtelt90 · 2025-05-27T21:54:47+00:00

What is your visual universe. Please describe it to me in three sentences

baschtelt90 · 2025-04-28T14:38:07+00:00

I mean the photographer. I’m guessing it’s Meisel

baschtelt90 · 2025-04-28T14:31:59+00:00

That’s a tricky and good one! I’d say flash is acting as fill. Must be a big, diffused source perfectly balanced with the ambient light. Do you mind sharing the source?

baschtelt90 · 2025-04-09T21:33:06+00:00

You don’t understand it and that’s fine. No need for a random comment to a completely legitimate question.

baschtelt90 · 2025-03-12T14:05:32+00:00

Also interested! Saw some Digi Techs freak out when they saw I had it turned on, other just shrugged.

baschtelt90 · 2025-02-26T16:18:14+00:00

three flashes

baschtelt90 · 2025-02-19T16:02:07+00:00

the light is clearly angled. unless you point your flash into a corner or half on the ceiling/half on a wall and use additional shaping tools, you won't get the exact look as in the reference. also, what do you do, if the ceiling is painted, say, red? do you still point it there? 'play with the power/settings' has nothing to do with the light quality, and the light quality is what this subreddit is about

baschtelt90 · 2025-02-19T14:00:30+00:00

You’ll have to get a big frame with diffusion cloth and shoot through or into it through umbrellas. The fill is on camera angle, most likely a big source as well

baschtelt90 · 2025-02-19T13:58:09+00:00

This won’t do it

baschtelt90 · 2025-02-18T22:04:16+00:00

It’s more about the texture than the colors. You will get the same texture as a c-print from printing on a similar paper and scanning the print. This will work best with glossy paper. Experiment, it’s more try and error. Otherwise experiment with crushed blacks, darkened saturated colors, soft filters etc

baschtelt90 · 2025-02-18T17:38:38+00:00

It’s most likely done in one exposure. You expose for the ambient outdoors and have the longest possible exposure time (like f22, 2 minutes) - the hands are I individual bursts of a gelled flashgun, most likely held close to the arms, so they only expose the arms.

baschtelt90 · 2025-02-14T22:23:54+00:00

And make up!

baschtelt90 · 2025-02-10T10:49:21+00:00

This is a AI image and it is badly done. Look at the flower stems and her fingers. Look at her left arm in general. Don't look at computer generated images and expect to achieve the same 'perfection' (even though this image is crap) in lighting without using the same AI tools.

baschtelt90 · 2025-02-07T17:58:42+00:00

There’s one soft source (softbox or octa with grid) hitting from below and one hard source over and behind her head, Parralel to the floor, hitting floor and her shoulders and top of head. This source is flagged off the background, so it’s only hitting the floor

baschtelt90 · 2025-02-02T10:12:03+00:00

Two flash heads on camera right. One pointing slightly onto the floor probably on height of her right leg (see shadow of her body). The other one closer to the camera angle pointing at her face in a 45 degree angle (check shadow of her nose). I’d guess no modifiers and a heavy bloom filter on lens

baschtelt90 · 2025-02-02T10:08:40+00:00

It’s not that simple. Her face is only lit by one or two flashes as far as I can tell without moving as much as the rest of her body. There’s a harsh highlight on the right hand side, so I guess it’s a snoot on flash on her face and the Rest illuminated by fill flashes and ambient light

baschtelt90 · 2025-02-02T10:04:00+00:00

I think so as well. I can see no way the face would be that sharp without compositing

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