We got hold of a new boom stand, so we did an overhead lighting session. Don’t worry, this isn’t a boom stand commercial, but I will say I never imagined being happy with quality metal stands. Seriously, the upgrades I’ve been happiest with usually have been when I have purchased or got hold of a higher quality light stand or other support equipment. I can get by with most any camera and lens but a quality support piece will save me time and give me one less thing to worry about during a photo session.
Anyway, once again we are using a random 3-yard piece of cloth. If you want your photos to have a different look or feel, then find some place that sells scrape cloth or cloth in small 3-yard pieces. Just throw them on in any way and you got something new going on. Just consider the thickness. Thinner pieces will need to be folded over so light does not travel through it. Unless you want light to travel through it.
Then we just threw in a skull, a cane, some fog and went to town.
Some of the shots have a second light, you will notice many of the shots we didn’t use that backlight you lose the model’s hair to the black background. That’s just something to keep in mind. It isn’t always bad but if you have anything that matches the color of your background and you want to bring it out then you will need to use a light to separate the two from each other.
We used a studio strobe with a boom stand and a softbox pointing down and a speedlight off to the side with a grid and a blue gel. The rest was just us having fun with the setup.