I’m back, last week we were away and i didn’t get the blog finished in time so here are the photos from last Monday night shoot. Mr. JK joined me with 2 creatures of the night to shoot more low key based portraits.
Although my original plan was to shoot everything very low key and use only silhouettes. I quickly noticed that I wasn’t getting results that matched the theme and changed to a Rembrandt style of lighting and added colour gels to the background lighting for atmosphere.
I cant remember exactly how many light set-ups we had as we changed them quickly. The two photos above were taken with the same set up and same black background, I just changed the colour gels on the back light. The back light was also set up with barn doors so I could control the exactly how the light fell. This was I created a natural vignette in the background that framed the subject.
Later I centralised that key light and left the back light exactly how it was (but changed the colour gel again).
Next we replaced the soft-box on the key light and placed it slightly above the models, the black paper background was swap.
 
The final light set up was with a home church window and a flagged strip light so that I used at-least one of my planed light set ups for the evening. All that lighting set ups were quick easy changes over the night and we even used the ring light for a few shots.
While even folkloric vampires of the Balkans and Eastern Europe had a wide range of appearance ranging from nearly human to bloated rotting corpses, it was interpretation of the vampire by the Christian Church and the success of vampire literature, namely John Polidori’s 1819 novella The Vampyre that established the archetype of charismatic and sophisticated vampire; it is arguably the most influential vampire work of the early 19th century, inspiring such works as Varney the Vampire and eventually Dracula.The Vampyre was itself based on Lord Byron’s unfinished story “Fragment of a Novel”, also known as “The Burial: A Fragment”, published in 1819. However, it is Bram Stoker’s 1897 novel Dracula that is remembered as the quintessential vampire novel and which provided the basis of modern vampire fiction.
And finally that lighting set ups I used.
P.S. No vampires or victims were hurt during the making of these photos, and there was defiantly no sparkling of any kind.
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Namaste.
Thank you for showing how you use the lights, but you seem to have a lot of equitptment. Is there some way I can do this with out so much equiptment. And what are all the black and white items in your diagrams.
Thank You Noor
HiNoor…. First off there isnt a lot being used here that you cant build your self on the cheap. You will need some sought of lighting and light modifiers (e.g. system strobes and shoot through umbrellas). But the rest is self made. The B&W stuff in the sylight diagrams are Gobos, Flags and Reflectors. They are simply large white or black surfaces that are used to reflect, block or channel light. You can build them very easily your self. e.g. the white reflector I used in these photos was just a large piece of polystyrene, and the black is black material stretched over a metal frame. I hope this helps some more Scott