Rachelle Rocks Biker Chic
Jeans teamed with a black leather biker jacket create a timeless fashion statement. A look embraced by Miley Cyrus, Jessica Alba, Kate Moss and thousands of other would-be wild ones worldwide.
Armed with a size 6 jacket, All Saints vest, belt and America flag scarf sourced by Your Dream VA Caught In Action headed to the studio, to meet model Rachelle, to rock the look.
Whilst Rachelle applied make-up and changed, I set up the lighting in the infinity coving area. With both black and white adjacent areas, it allowed me to shoot both high and low-key shots with minimal adjustment.
A 4ft Octobox was fitted to the Elinchrom flash, left of the camera. This would act as the key light and create a large light source, ensuring a gradual transition from light to shadows. The power was set between 1.5 and 2 stops less than maximum.
The fill light, at a lesser power, was stationed slightly behind Rachelle to the right of the camera and fitted with a gridded strip box.
Whilst the hair light was affixed to the Colourama cross bar directly behind Rachelle and gridded to ensure accuracy and no spill.
Lastly, a reflector was placed to the left-hand side of Rachelle.
The white balance on the camera was set to flash, all shots were taken at ISO200, with a flash sync speed of 1/125 sec with apertures between F7.6 and F10.
After a couple of test shots, we were good to go with the session yielding high-key and low-key shots from full-length to headshots.
Finally, using the graffiti wall I bounced the key light, set at maximum power off the adjacent wall to light the scene with a reflector at the side of Rachelle.
With the shots in the bag, all that was left was the processing.