Lighting Setup Help/Advice?

[sydneyrose]

This is my second year in photography school, so I know the basics, but I'm still learning. In this particular class we use Electronic flash. Specifically Profoto and Dynalite. This week I have a shoot to do and I want to try a more advanced setup. I got the inspiration for the lighting from an image on google and would like to try to recreate. I don't know how to really read the lighting from other photographs well, so I will post it here.

The link for the picture:
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There doesn't seem to be so much light on her, yet there are what looks like three different gels. Any idea on how this was done?

 

[Iron Flatline]

This is my second year in photography school, so I know the basics, but I'm still learning. In this particular class we use Electronic flash. Specifically Profoto and Dynalite. This week I have a shoot to do and I want to try a more advanced setup. I got the inspiration for the lighting from an image on google and would like to try to recreate. I don't know how to really read the lighting from other photographs well, so I will post it here.

The link for the picture:
Image - TinyPic - Free Image Hosting, Photo Sharing & Video Hosting

There doesn't seem to be so much light on her, yet there are what looks like three different gels. Any idea on how this was done?

exactly as you assume. Three light sources, I'd guess almost exact equal power on each. Strong color gels. One left, one right, one above... none too soft either because you want harder shadows to intersect and you're filling all dead spots. Probably just a basic reflector on each head, possibly gridded.