Behind the Scenes
At first look you may not realise how the whole shot was a complete set up. The 'model' is my daughter wearing my high heels (don't ask
) & we shot this in an unlit tunnel going under the A38. Lighting was provided by my EX580 flash with a reflector & honeycomb grid to control the spread of light mounted on a hand held lighting stand & fired with a remote trigger & the self timer.
Apeture set at f2.8 to throw the tunnel in the distance out of focus, exposure was bit trial & error adjusting the flash power until I got it right. Positioning the light above my daughter also required a bit of experimentation - with it directly above her head there was too much hard shadow & I found the best position was about 3 feet nearer the camera position to throw some light on her hair.
Having got that shot, three more shots were taken moving down the tunnel with just the flash to make the other 'lights' The four best shots were stacked in photoshop, I cloned myself out & revealed each light with layer masks. Finally flatten & convert to B&W with Silver Efex Pro