Photo Deconstruction: Vintage Beauty Photography using a Flag

Join me in exploring my new "Photo Deconstruction" series where I select one of my photographs and share the elements that work together to bring that shot to life. I share inspiration, lighting, behind the scenes images, before/after post-processing and more.

In this video I deconstruct a high contrast black and white beauty image. Many photographers are afraid of hard light, but it can be such a powerful tool especially when creating more vintage-inspired imagery. For this shot I use a bare bulb (no modifier) to create an extremely hard main light. Then, I added a flag (piece of cinefoil) to cast a crisp shadow onto the model’s face.

A second light with a grid is used on the background to create a beautiful gradient and glow of light behind the model, separating her from the background.

Photographer: Lindsay Adler
Makeup: Gilbert Soliz
Hair: Linh Nguyen


Gear:

✅ Canon 5D IV: https://prf.hn/l/EJDBPoe/
✅ Canon 70-200mm 2.8: https://prf.hn/l/7DlBYyY/
✅ Profoto D2: (discontinued, linking to new D3): https://prf.hn/l/K9ENnmk/
✅ Cinefoil: https://prf.hn/l/2MgNBx9/
✅ Profoto 10 Degree Grid: https://prf.hn/l/kVkP9q9/
✅ Savage Storm Grey: https://prf.hn/l/1eEBojD/

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