Rick Rose’s Smokey Fashion Shoot

Written by M. Gertz on Friday, January 11th, 2013. Posted in Portrait Photography

Rick Rose was inspired early on by the fashion and cosmetic world and is now working as a fashion, editorial, beauty and portrait photography in LA. Below, he shares some details about a smokey studio shoot.

I was aiming for an edgier look given the models we had that day, and decided to shoot on black with a smoke machine filling up the space between the model and the paper. I used a Mola Demi with a D4 head as a hair light and to bring light and contrast into the smoke. I used the Mola Setti with a D4 at a diagonal angle as to not have it cast any light on the background, which was made easier considering that you can ‘zoom’ Profoto heads within a modifier to adjust and control the light for the desired effect. The frosted glass domes over the flash tubes make the light smoother, and more pleasing than flashes that are a bare flash tube.

rick rose lighting diagram Rick Rose’s Smokey Fashion Shoot

Gear used:
Hasselblad H2, Phase One P45+, HC 50 f3.5, Pocketwizard Multimax, Profoto Acute 2R 2400, 2x Profoto Acute2/D4 Flash head, Mola Setti 28 inch white BD, Mola Demi 22 inch white BD, Smoke machine, Black paper bg.

Below, a shot by a friend showing the lighting setup and a couple more shots from the same shoot.