Vegafoto explores Natural Beauty
©Vegafoto
Swedish photographer Michael Jönsson recently launched an exciting new project entitled Natural Beauty. The concept behind Natural Beauty is pretty simple. Michael is going to create a series of fashion styled portraits without using makeup, professional hair stylists or retouching the images. The purpose of all this is according to Michael to emphasize the models’ natural beauty – hence the title.
This is the first portrait in Michael’s series. The girl’s name is Malin, and for this shoot, Michael used two Profoto ComPact 600R monolights, the Softlight Reflector, a Zoom Reflector and a reflector screen. The end result is a nice example of how far you can get by just shaping the light right.
Michael will continue to publish images in the same fashion on his blog. Stop by if you are curious to see more.
Michael's lighting setup
Tags: Portrait Photography, Softlight Reflector, Vegafoto
Trackback from your site.
Comments (4)
debbi Smirnoff
| #
What is a ‘reflector SCREEN’ ? Is that a plain white or silver reflector?
Reply
Fredrik Franzén
| #
That’s a silver reflector. Sorry about that.
Reply
VEGA — Profoto bloggen – Vegafoto explores Natural Beauty
| #
[...] att Profoto gjorde en bloggpost om mitt pågående Natural [...]
Reply
Simon Koležnik
| #
I tried a similar setup. I used a Softlight White as the main light from the left and a large Softbox 4×6 in the background. I didn’t want to use the reflector because I wanted a straight portrait of a pilot not the glamorous look + I wanted to showcase some mild shadows on the face. The results are here:
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150387313570326.356229.558780325&type=3
Reply