Demo 2 Artifical North Window Light

We created an 8'x8' light source by making a box out of foamcore books and using 4 bare Profoto heads place inside the box. We covered it with a white king size cotton bed sheet. We shot side lite and with the light behind the camera.

Demo 1 Avedon Passport Lighting

This demonstration is simple lighting with a white background. The top left photo shows the back lights only. Care was given that the background light did not hit the subject or creat a specular highlight on the side of the face. The top right photograph shows the front light only. You can see that the light falls off by the time it hits the white background and renders the backgound a dark grey. The lower left photo shows the combination of the front and background lights. The class portraits where done with this light and processed in Lightroom with B&W High Contrast Preset. In the final photograph we turned down the backlights until it read two stops under the front light.