texxter said:
If you're interested in this style of glamour photography, post your images.
I too like old-fashioned glamour images.
Anyway...you said post some images...here are a few from December, 2017. This is my type of "Hollywood style"...
These are a few small 850-pixel tall photos from a glamour set I shot it late 2017, my first-ever set with the Nikon D800. I used my favorite cramped space zoom, the 1990's Nikon 28-80mm f/3.5~5.6 AF-D. I shoot a fair amount indoors, and for this shoot I wanted an old-fashioned look. I used a single Speedotron 400 Watt-second flash pack, and three M-11 flash heads, with typically a small, 30-inch light source, and then two metal reflectors, each one fitted with a honeycomb grid. One reflector was seven inches in diameter, and had barn doors, a honeycomb grid, and a diffuser. The other reflector was 11.5 inches in diameter, and also had a grid, but no barn doors, and it too was fitted with a white semi-frosted mylar diffuser. I like these small, gridded,metal-reflector flashes because I can place them close to the subject, and light the hair a bit, and use the directionality of these two lights to create shadows on or behind the subject. To go old-Hollywood, I think there simply _must be_ at least a few obvious shadows, shadows that show the shape of the person, their outline, their nose shadow, shadows of the body parts, whatever. The lighting ought to,normally, have some directionality to it. Classic 1930's and 1940's glamour-type shots were way before the modern era, with today's trend of oversized light modifiers 60 to 70 years in the future.
Deliberate use of the 7-inch and 11.5-inch grid+diffuser lights on both sides to create outlines on the wall that mirror her shape.
Same image as above, but cropped in. Pretty good for a $50 1990's 28-80 AF-D zoom lens.
One of the grid + diffuser lights light her face and her right arm, and creates a shadow; the other grid+diffuser light creates small shadows at the bottom of her garment. A small 30-inch umbrella provides eye catchlight and overall fill.
Speedotron silvered 30-inch umbrella as main light, 11.5 inch grid+ diffuser is placed low and camera left to create a sidelight that will throw plenty of shape-definingmcrisp,black shadows...
Again...the 30-inch silvered Speedotron brand metallized silver umbrella is used going straight ahead at her face, and it's not the main light, but instead is my overall fill light, and the main light is actually a fairly strong light coming from camera right, from the Speedotron 11.5-inch metal reflector with 10 degree grid and a Speedotron brand clip-on mylar diffuser.