Another photograph in the Chelsea Hotel lobby. I tried this Q-flash through a white sheet on a friend. Once it was set up, Robert Lambert (who lives and works in the Chelsea Hotel), artist step in with another subject and got the shot. They only allowed me two exposures.
This was my first serious attempt to use off-camera portable lighting on location. I was able to get access to the Chelsea Hotel lobby for this shot. The subject is sitting in a telephone booth and a Canon 580EX flash is pointed at him through the glass partition that separates the two stalls. The light had to be set up in a way to get the optimal effect.
In this improved version of the Man Ray photograph, the subject has more separation from the background, due to an adjustment of the direction and position of the beauty dish and the color of the seamless backdrop is thunder gray instead of black.
I attempted to imitate another Man Ray photograph of Kiki de Montparnasse. I used a beauty dish feathered off of the subject and background to light the subject evenly but a little bit dramatically. Also, I directed the beauty dish off of the background.
The improved version of this Man Ray photo offers a darker, more textured background. It also has better image quality.
My intention was to imitate this Man Ray photograph using modern artificial lighting. For this image, I utilized a beauty dish and a plain white seamless background.
