This is the second post covering the shoot where we were trying to produce images in the style of Helmet Newton. You can look at the previous post for the background to the shoot.

The first series of images were shot on a white seamless in what was obviously a studio. He had done another body of work entitled “Domestic Nudes” with subjects naked and more normal circumstances. In the second part of the show I wanted to recreate some of these. 

I had only booked an hour with Johemiane to complete different looks. I knew that I could not afford to waste time mucking around with lights. Fortunately, I have a lot of gear. I was able to set up lights ahead of time in the areas I had identified as places I wanted to shoot. As they all walked off the same trigger I only had to move Johemiane, myself and the camera. I also swapped cameras to my Nikon Z6ii.

We started in the kitchen which turned out to be a great location. I had set up my Godox V1 speedlight in a 65cm softbox. I found that the speedlight is more than adequate in such a situation. To keep the light punchy there was no diffusion material over the front of the softbox.

The only issue I was dealing with was the reflection of the softbox in our garden window. To get around this problem I moved the light to minimise the effect. 

We then moved into our entranceway and I had a Johemiane play the piano.

The setting for these images was f5 1/100s ISO100. This allowed some of the ambient light to enter the image. It prevented the photo from looking completely flashed up.