First off, I don't claim to be much more than a hack when it comes to photography.....Sometimes you play around, try some different things, and you just plain get lucky.
Other times you plan things out carefully.
In preparing to shoot this set, I knew I wanted the model outdoors and that I wanted to open the double doors to the house for the background. The model was in the shade so some fill flash was needed. I set a medium size softbox outside to light her up.
Doing that would leave the inside so dark that you could not have made out any details. To compensate for this, I placed a large softbox on the floor behind the couch to light up the entire background. That was cool but it would leave shadows from the model on the front of the couch and just look strange so I added a second medium softbox and using a boom arm, I extended it from just outside of the picture and aimed the softbox straight down onto the couch. This eliminated all shadows and allowed everything behind the model to be well lit.
Then I used a disposable Fuji 35mm camera and took a few snapshots.
Here's the end result.
Happy to answer any questions.
