BTS swimwear lookbook

Hey friends! Only few days back from my Thai vacation and already did 2 jobs in the first days of february. One of those jobs was a swimwear lookbook for a local startup brand.
Client booked our Soho studio for the shoot with the mediterranian place we have in there to have a summer warm/bright summer look.

I did a 2 setups at once light setting here:

1. Simple soft light setup in front of a beige colored stone texture wall for static lookbook shots to showcase the products. I used two 1200 led lights (an aputure 1200D and a Godox 1200bicolor), which were directed into a 2x2 meter scrim with a thick coating to bounce back the light to the wall where I positioned the model. First I tried a fresnel on the godox but a normal wide reflector gave me a better more even result, as I wanted to hit the most of the scrim surface to have a bigger bouncing surface for softer result.
I also positioned the model about 1 step away from the wall to get rid of her shadow, so it was no more noticable on the wall. Left from the model I had a white board to bounce back some light on her from the side and also hit the wall behind her.
I also put some white board in front of the model on the floor to have some filling of the shadows from the lower angle, just slightly.

2. For the image photos which were made in addition to the static lookbook I wanted to have a more crispy look and hard shadows which imitate the sun. I used a 600x Aputure LED without any light former on it and positioned it a little higher (about 2m-2,20) on a stand and directed towards another wall. This light was set a bit warmer around 5000-5200 Kelvin and the corner of the wall in front of it created a nice shadow line on the longer wall where model would pose.

So with every outfit and model we first shot few static poses with the soft light and then we switched the corners and I used hard light from 600x to shoot some freestyle "sunny" shots which looked like late setting sun hitting around the corner somewhere in the south.

For the most time all 3 lights were turned on. Hard light didnt have any visible impact on the static pictures. And for freestyle image photos the lights directed towards the scrim were creating some fill light in the whole room and so the shadows were less dark. For some shots (last picture for example) I turned off the 1200 watt lights and only shot with the hard light from 600x to have edgy moody sunset vibes.

Sometimes its very uncomplicated to create multiple setups which u can quickly switch, even in rather small rooms.

Camera was set to iso 400, 1/200s and 5.6 for the lookbook shots.