Thinking on your feet

My brief was to shoot a model in her hotel room last week while she was in town visiting friends from interstate.

A simple enough task but two factors came into play that made the shoot way harder that what it should have been

Doing a shoot during Grand final weekend in Melbourne means that your choice of hotel rooms are restricted. Generally I would like 5 star hotels as the furnishings are generally nicer and you have more spots in the room to take nicely framed images.

Bed, couch, chaise lounge etc

For this hotel room, my only real option was to shoot on the bed

For lighting my plan was to shoot with a couple of shoot through umbrellas powered by my SB-900's. However I managed to leave them in the studio!

Looking around the room I noticed a balcony and curtains about 3 metres from the bed. This was one of those Eureka moments where you crave for in moments like this.

I ended up setting one SB-900 out on the Balcony and fired it back into the room through the white curtains.

Bang, one huge makeshift diffuser!

Lucky for me I did remember to pack the light meter so a couple of measurements to adjust for ambient lights in the room we have the final image

Job done!