How to light to recreate this shot

[omar robles]

Anybody have an idea of how best achieve this type of lighting on set?

 

[Dominik Muench]

it looks like its just one single par or fresnel spot, nothing too big, my guess would be maybe a 575W or 1K spot.
since there is a bit of detail in the dress from the front, maybe there is just a bit of bounce fill with a white polyboard in there as well.

 

[omar robles]

cool i will test that. thanks

 

[Ariel Weiss]

I hope it's not too obvious...the light is right behind their heads hidden by it. I don't think it's that spot because there is spread that lights the surrounding area between the light and the couple. There is rain or something falling. There is some fill probably as Dominik said. It has strong blue cast which can be achieved in a few ways, the best is to use HMI and set the white balance to something lower like 3200 or inbetween. If you do test please post some pics if possible. Good luck!

 

[Paul Russell]

An alternative way of getting a nice clean blue cast is to rotate the hue in post. That way you're not using the noisy blue channel as your source. Works well on fairly monochromatic images, like this one.

 

[Robert Ruffo New]

Paul, no - you want to feed the blue channel as much blue light as possible. Rotate in post and you are boosting a weak channel (at least if you do it in RAW). If you want various blues use gels.

 

[Paul Russell]

Well, I've used this technique successfully many times. In effect you are boosting a strong channel, like red, and making it look blue. Try it. Like I said, it works best on images with very little colour variation.

 

[Matthew Scott]

Looks like flash to me....

 

[omar robles]

Someone said its a HMI in the distance that creates that effect

 

[Matthew Scott]

The blue is easier to achieve cleanly with a daylight balanced light, but it doesn't have to be a HMI, it could be any light you chose that is focused and positioned behind the subject pointing towards camera.

Think about it though this looks like a wedding portrait to me, no? And a remote triggered flash is more likely the light of choice here....

 

[omar robles]

Well it is a wedding portrait triggered by a flash. However i just want a similar type of look.

 

[Matthew Scott]

Focused back light, fresnel or spot, but could be done with an open faced tungsten too.... Just so long as your subjects are blocking the actual light source hehe

 

[dio Zafi]

blue gel..