Originally Posted by tenoverthenose

Light is obviously from camera right, but how'd you light her and not overlight the tree? Also, what are you using for that kind of throw - is that your quad bracket set up?

Originally Posted by divamum Light is obviously from camera right, but how'd you light her and not overlight the tree? Also, what are you using for that kind of throw - is that your quad bracket set up?

Actually this one was lit in weird way that I rarely use. She is standing in the shade of the tree with almost no direct light on her, at least 10 feet away from the trunk. I wanted it to look natural (even though it wasn't) so I used long throw reflector on my Quadra from about 15 feet away. It's got a pretty tight pattern even without a grid, so it was easy to aim it away from the tree. I fired it through some other tree branches and a few leaves to act as a cookie and break up the light a little bit.

So yeah, I used a lot of power to make this happen but I could probably do something similar with a speed light.