Behind The Scenes | "INTERGALACTIC" | Louise K, March 2025

NOTE: Find the password for the videos in the Patron chat named "ANNOUNCEMENTS"❗️ It changes on a regular basis.

As already mentioned, I've changed the way I release these awesome 'Behind The Scenes'-videos - so instead of a monthly basis on an exact date I release one video, I now thrive to just release them AFTER the shoots are out and whenever I feel for it. ☺️
That means that you can have multiply videos on a month, like this time around, where you already got this video from my shoot with Mirriam Amber a few weeks ago. 🤓

Today we're heading behind the scenes on my latest shoot with Louise K, which can be seen right here and the PREMIUM EXCLUSIVE second part right here. 🥵

Below is attached a shorted version of the insights I posted on the PREMIUM EXCLUSIVE post, if you want a quick look before seeing the video. ☺️

A little bit of insights..

We started out by having the huge black textile of a backdrop attached to the tripods and adding a layer of plastic foil upon it. Louise could lay on it, while I used a mix of the Elinchrom RX600 as mainlight (placed just outside of the screen on the photo below) and a handheld Nanlite Pavotube with red tones. 🤓

At this point, Louise didn't apply any moist to her skin yet.

(A screenshot from the behind the scenes video dropping on the 27th of March, showing me holding the Pavotub in my left hand while I shoot with the right hand. Notice how close I'm in fact holding it to Louise - that's because of the amount of power coming from the Elinchrom flash!)

After we used that setting, it was suggested she went all nude, so we decided to go from horizontal photos to vertical, and place her behind the plastic foil. 🤩🙌🏻
Louise moisturized her skin with some basic oil creme, making it reflect the light much more - but the actualy reason for us to apply it, was to have the plastic foil 'stick to her'. By having a bit of moist at the skin makes the plastic very sticky which was the whole vision of doing this setup. 😁

I kept the Elinchrom RX600 as main light, however I distanced it even more so the amount of light was reduced on this setting. ☺️
The natural light coming in from the windows wasn't used yet because I shot at "M"-mode and used the PocketWizard.

(Above; We moved from the horizontal setup on the ground to standing up doing vertical shots. Notice how the plastic wraps around Louise sticking to her skin - that was the whole point of making this setup)

This particular setup was achieved with combining natural light coming in from some windows, with the power of Nanlite Pavotubes. We even did analogue skin retouch on Louise, by creating a special mix of oils, coffee & lubrication which ended up giving her a nicely darker soft tones.

(A still from the behind the scenes-video to be released on the 27th of March.)

As always, I shot everything on the Canon R5 and this time around only used the Canon 24-70 mm f./2.8 L USM III lens because of the short distance I had to keep on most of the shots, due to me holding a Pavotube in one hand while shooting with the other. 🤓

As always: Please feel free to ask away about whatever you want to know about this shoot! ☺️ Technical stuff, practical stuff, tips or tricks - or simply just let me know what you think. 🥳🙏🏻