Portrait shoot of Artist/Oil Painter Sunny Ra w/diagram

Finally got to shoot a few beautiful portraits of Sunny.

It's been awhile since I've listed the BTS's diagram of 

a setup on how I get a shot.

We were shooting in a living room of a house 

and even though the wallpaper color was nice, 

I did not want the pattern at all as the background. 

I used a diffuser to only get the color that I wanted 

to achieve without the pattern. A Canon 580 EX II 

Speedlite was between the diffuser and the wall 

to control the intensity of the background.

My main light source was a White Lightning X1600 

gelled with a CTO shooting through an umbrella. 

Due to height issues I wasn't actually able to 

get the light source as high or infront of the model 

as I would have liked, so I had to add another Canon 

580 EX II for fill. The fill light was also gelled 

with a CTO and softened with a Lumiquest 

softbox III. 

Imported into Adobe Lightroom 4 where a few adjustments 

were made then exported to CS6 for a few touch ups

to get the final image you see above. 

Diagram of setup:

Sunny Ra is an exceptional oil painter. 

Most of her paintings are big, 

like in the 4ft x 8ft range.

Click to to go to her website!