Requirements for taking a photo like this.

DigDoug90 · Feb 17, 2012

Hi friends,

I was just curious what are some of the requirements in regards to lighting to take a picture like this.

http://media-cdn.pinterest.com/upload/31877109831970857_6Moh05qw_f.jpg

For some reason I cannot post images either. Not sure if it is related to my tenure on the forum.

Thanks!

Steph

480sparky · Feb 17, 2012

A dark room (not necessarily a studio), a couple of off-camera flashes (or monolights) and a large aperture.

cgipson1 · Feb 17, 2012

Make that two off camera flashes.. one gridded or snooted!

DigDoug90 · Feb 17, 2012

Thanks guys!!

Austin Greene · Feb 17, 2012

Is it just me, or does it appear to be a composition of two photos? Why someone would need to do this, I don't know, because it could probably be achieved in one, but the lines around the hands don't seem natural, too "polygonal lasso" looking for me to not be skeptical.

480sparky · Feb 17, 2012

What 'lines around the hands' are you seeing?

cgipson1 · Feb 17, 2012

yea.. I don't see them either.... lol!

Austin Greene · Feb 17, 2012

Hmm, maybe I was hallucinating. The hands just seem a bit too crisp, almost like they've been cut and pasted in. Really I was looking at the top of the top hand, and the fleshy top/thumb area of the bottom hand. Still, likely just hallucinating

480sparky · Feb 17, 2012

Now that you mention it.......... the top hand looks like his, and the lower hand looks like hers.

Austin Greene · Feb 17, 2012

480sparky said:
Now that you mention it.......... the top hand looks like his, and the lower hand looks like hers.

But if she's got the baby bump, and she's in the back of the photo, then we are only left with a few options...

1) She has a very long third arm.
2) For the sake of the photo, her third arm was removed and held in place beneath the blocks.
3) Its a composition of two photos.
4) The arms on her stomach aren't hers (creepy)
5) The person in the back is in fact not even related to the people holding the blocks. They just found some pregnant lady. (Creepier)

Personally I'm leaning towards number one