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Back in April this year I did a photo shoot for Airy Fairy which is an alternative fashion shop, located in The Oasis in Birmingham.   The model for the shoot was Sofi (Model Mayhem #1093764) a confident young lady who has really funky blue/green hair.

Katie, the owner of Airy Fairy who had commissioned the shoot, wanted to get shots of some of the items she sells for use on the shops website.  She quickly styles Sofi in a very nice spotty corset, black and white strippey socks, blue frilly nickers and to top it off, gave her a pair of white fairy wings and a blue umbrella to use as props.

We had access to the staircases and corridors located behind the store in The Oasis and the brief that she wanted to get some edgy fashion shots.

On investigating the stairwell we found a section which had some graffiti on the walls which would add a little more visual impact to the images.

There wasn’t much space in the stairwell so I initially set up one flash at 1/4 power with a 32″ white shoot through brolly to camera left, but as this was quite close to the model, the light was falling off too quickly and her feet were not lit very well.  So I set up a second flash at 1/16 power bare and placed it on the floor below the other flash (actually on my camera bag so that it was just off the floor and didn’t light the floor too much as well) and pointed the second light at the models feet, to provide just enough subtle fill to make them stand out.

It was a fun shoot to do and ultimately the client was happy with the results and has used some of the images on her website.   Here are some of the final images.

Here’s the lighting setup I used for the majority of the shots: