Zoe Page sexes it up bound in tight hemp rope on her sexy weekend getaway!
It's funny when necessity pushes you into trying something you'd never normally do. We saw this beam over the stairwell at our location shoot
in North Wales and knew we had to tie someone up there, but how on earth would we light it? I tried sending light in from the two side corridors,
behind Zoe, which looked OK but which left hardly any shooting angles without getting the lights in. I tried lighting from down the stairs, but it looked
nasty and on-camera flash-y. I've left in more of the test shots than I usually would so you can see my thought process evolving. I knew the light wasn't
what I wanted, but sometimes you have to flounder around until you hit on a pattern that looks good on set.
In this case, it was to push all the light in from one end of one of the side corridors, a bit blast of light into a big umbrella but placed a lot
further from the model than we'd usually consider. This almost gave it the feeling of a shaft of sunlight, and with the low noise and high dynamic range of
modern sensors we didn't have to "pollute" the look with additional fill- we could just rely on the light naturally bouncing around the walls and ceiling
to fill in the shadows a bit.
Then it was over to Steve to do the awesome bondage rig and take the photos while Zoe hit it out of the park struggling sexily against the ropes for the
set. It's one of the great pleasures of our location trips for me to be able to help with the set-up like this, then leave the crew and model to it, and see what the result was only that evening. We always review the day's footage after dinner, showing the photos from my laptop on one of the TVs at the location, and it is
great to see what the other shooting teams have come up with! I often spend a fair bit of my day running between units being the producer, and doing the lighting,
which is the bit I find it hardest to let go of. I'm fine with having other people do the tying up and taking the photos, but I guess maybe because it is my
full-time job and there is a bit more technically to get right with exposure and lighting ratios, I do like to make sure that the test shots are looking
atmospheric and well-exposed before letting the team run with it.
Stunning job done by all, thank you!
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