Beyond | Jennifer L.

This whole shoot began with me having this idea of creating a set of photos only lit by real life candlelights. 😅 That was the only dogma - so I asked if anyone would like to help me - and this sweet lady named Jennifer applied. 🥳🙌🏻

We've never met before but apparently she had been following me for quite some years on Instagram. 🤷🏻‍♂️☺️

Anyway..

My vision was clear from the start; We had to do this in complete darkness / in the evening, otherwise it wouldn't work. No sunlight could come in from the windows, since it would ruin the whole concept - so we arranged to meet up in the late afternoon a day at her place. 💪🏻

As seen below is was completely dark (also; it was January and in Denmark... what to expect? 😂🤷🏻‍♂️ It's like pitch black 23 out of 24 hours a day at that time a year.. haha) - and then I applied some red tones to the photos afterwards, to achieve this cozy vibe. ☺️

(Above; a simulation of the vibe changes by adjusting the Kelvin in post-process)

You can either achieve that cozy red-ish look, manually on set, by adjusting your Kelvin / White Balance to fit your needs, but it's also possible to edit afterwards. I did a combination of these two options. 🤓

As mentioned, this whole setup was just meant as a little 'test' or 'I just want to have fun and do stuff I haven't done lately', so there wasn't any real requirements to the results - but I really like how calm and well Jennifer performed and fitted my original vision. ☺️

Below is another setup we did, with a nude Jennifer laying on the floor surrounded by candlelights. Those I can't show, but you can check out the setup and imagine me shooting directly from above and down on her.
When working with such a low light as we did this evening, you obviously have to compensate with a high ISO on the camera. Since I shot on my Canon R5 I could easily crank it up on +3000 without getting too grainy looks (ironically, I added grains in the post-process.. 😆🙈), because you need sharp images, not blurry.

(Above; 'The nude setup' without Jennifer in the middle)

I haven't much more to say about this set, other than again; it was just a test for me personally and I really really like the outcome. Do you? ☺️🤷🏻‍♂️

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. 🥳🙏🏻