RE: Lighting questions.
I am possibly quite unorthodox with lighting.
I use PLC 360 Continuous Cool Lights for lighting.
http://www.photography-lighting.com/...ghtslites.html
In all of these cases I used two Cool Lights using Daylight temperature bulbs in a room with a large window providing bright daylight reflected off a green leaves from a tree outside the window. So I have a variety of color provided by the variety of lighting effects. Cyan colored light from the cool lights greenish colored light entering the room from the right and reflected softly off a light colored wall to the left.
The room is only 12 feet wide so the model is always quite close to the bare wall.
The first shot has two lights – the one on the right closer to the model but not directly at the model – the light is partially reflecting off the wall behind her to soften its effect because it was so close to her while the other light is just left of center and most of the way across the room so the light has a chance to spread more evenly.
The second shot both lights are approximately equidistant to the model but directed primarily on the wall behind her. All of the highlights on the right side of her face are reflected off the wall.
The third shot the light on the left is now closer to her and directed primarily at the wall with enough trained on the model to overpower the green colored reflected light with its own cyan colored light. The light on the right is now primarily reflected off the wall but at a sharper angle. With two lights directed on the wall I have overpowered the natural greenish light from outside with my daylight cyan colored cool lights.
I move lights around the model very casually – there is not rocket science to my process. I place the light shot at the angle I prefer given that lighting situation and place the model where that lighting is most dramatic.
When processing the images in Photoshop I have some difficulties with color balance and often prefer to accept an unbalanced, or not perfectly balanced colors for effect. In the last image I chose to highlight the cyan from the light on the left. While in the first and second images I have the golden glow around her head which does not destroy the images but was actually an unwanted affect.
I actually hate these questions about lighting because I know of no other photographer using similar equipment and I really do not make lighting a science but rather an intuitive process. When lighting the subject I have positioned the model to prepare for her pose and I light the subject according often to discover something very different to shoot than I intended.
Hope this helps even though the descriptions are very general. They are general because I am not really paying attention to exact lighting but rather paying attention to the models needs. In fact they may be a little inaccurate as I reconstruct the lighting based on the image not my memory.
The lighting
Another shot - demonstrates the reason the the green leave the light coming into the room is reflected off. By the way smoking is bad for you and this model does not smoke - except in one set of photographs. LOL
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