Frida Kahlo Inspired Beauty Shoot
In today’s Photo Deconstruction I’m going to show you how I create a Frida Kahlo inspired beauty shoot using dramatic lighting and gels.
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Frida Kahlo was a Mexican painter best known for her uncompromising and brilliantly colored self-portraits that deal with such themes as identity, the human body, and death. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frida_K...
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One of the places I love returning to for inspiration over and over again is the past. After all, it’s these great artists, painters, sculptures etc that have paved the way for our modern art.
I love mixing the ‘old’ and the new for a timeless feel to my work. In fact I have a workshop that focuses on this very theme called the Timeless workshop, taught along with Chris Knight. (For more info check out the workshop here 👉 https://lindsayadler.photo/timeless).
The image shown here in this breakdown is straight out of one of the looks that we create on set for attendees.
The core elements that inspired me from Frida Kahlo’s work were the elements of nature and color that I knew I wanted incorporate into my version.
💡Lighting
This is a 5 light setup — and I know that when people hear that they might think that it’s overwhelming or overkill, but when I use that many lights each one has a specific purpose. I typically also build up my lights as I go along, without the intention of using lots of lights to begin with.
The main light here is an Optical Spot which I used to create a slice of light on the subject's face.
Now of course using this modifier doesn’t have anything to do with Frida Kahlo’s work, but that is how I merge the old with the new to create my own style.
Next up I used a large umbrella w/ diffusion + a magenta gel as my fill light to the right hand side of the frame. The reason behind the gel was to create more of a cohesive and analogous color scheme and tie everything together.
Lights 3 and 4 are in the back as rim lights, both with CTO (color temperature orange) gels with barn doors to help control the spill of light. The color really pops when backlighting haze which is another thing that I added to the scene.
The 5th light is hidden behind the subject and is a bare bulb with a magenta gel to give a nice gradient to the background.
This is the shot straight out of camera: 6:54
There wasn’t much that needed to be in done in post processing other than increasing the contrast and highlights a bit to help with the softness that the haze in a can created.
I also retouched a few areas just to clean things up a bit.
👇 I’d love to hear your thoughts on the final outcome. Drop a comment below.
📸 Camera Settings:
✅ 1/200th
✅ F/11
✅ ISO 400
📸 Gear Used:
✅ Canon EOS R5: https://adorama.rfvk.net/JxzdE
✅ Canon RF 24-105mm F/4: https://adorama.rfvk.net/Rk5Qy
✅ Profoto D2: https://adorama.rfvk.net/qvB7y
✅ Westcott Optical Spot: https://adorama.rfvk.net/P0r7rY
✅ Profoto Large Umbrella: https://adorama.rfvk.net/bKGzg
✅ Profoto Large Umbrella Diffuser: https://adorama.rfvk.net/JAyMe
✅ Profoto Air Remote: https://adorama.rfvk.net/W3o5G
✅ Tiffen 72mm Black Pro Mist #1/2 Filter: https://adorama.rfvk.net/Ryqbva
✅ Avenger D600 boom arm: https://adorama.rfvk.net/XRdAG
✅ Savage C-Stand: https://adorama.rfvk.net/J1ZW2
✅ Tethertools Tether Cable: https://adorama.rfvk.net/avr5q
✅ Dramatic Color Kit: https://lindsayadler.photo/gelkit
✅ Savage Seamless Thunder Gray Background: https://adorama.rfvk.net/xWvY1
🔥 For more inspiring creative lighting techniques check out my Creative Studio Lighting Guide: https://lindsayadler.photo/clg
🔥 If you'd like to attend an in person hands-on workshop where you can learn to create images like this check out my schedule of upcoming workshops: https://lindsayadler.photo/workshops
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