Photographer Scott Nathan demonstrates a white out fashion lighting setup.

Photographer Scott Nathan & his team demonstrate how to light a full length white out, using a 6 light setup. There are countless ways to achieve beautiful whiteout setups, I like this one for shooting men, which was the plan.

Shoot was for the Urban Decay Cosmetics Pocket Rocket campaign.

NOTE: Final images here.
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=166030&id=12560041108


Equipment includes. 4 Profoto Umbrellas. Silver Profoto beauty dish & an Elinchrom Octabank (No diffusion) for fill. Profoto 7A generators.

Thanks to Atomic Digital.

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[smnsmn]

urbandecay (dot) com

[smnsmn]

You can see the finished images of the products on the Urban Decay Cosmetics website. Product is called Pocket Rocket. I can't post a link here.

Hope you enjoy!

Scott

[wondnaereh]

So where's the sample image for all the work that went into the set up?

[smnsmn]

@wondnaereh You can see the finished images of the products on the Urban Decay Cosmetics website. Product is called Pocket Rocket. I can't post a link here.

Hope you enjoy!

Scott

[smnsmn]

Here's another tip. If you meter a 1 to 1.3 stop variable between the subjects back (facing the wall) and the subjects face (facing the key light), you will achieve a perfect whiteout, regardless of skin tone.

[busycorner]

I'm sure there was a lot of good information there. Too bad we have to guess at the why and how.

[smnsmn]

I named every piece of equipment. I showed it's lighting diagram. I also showed the distances between the light sources and subject. The only thing I didn't articulate were the ratios between all the light sources. Let me know if you have other questions.

[lefeudebout]

This set up just goes to show that fashion photography is as far removed from amateur photography as F1 driving is from everyday driving.

[spacefoodstix]

Thanks for the tip Scott.

[photoman022]

I love Benny Hill! But what did you do with all of the set up?

[0714boskittles]

Yeah but at least they played the Bennie Hill theme over and over!