Monday, 23 Mar 2009
Anne Hathaway Recreated
Larry posted this image of Anne Hathaway a couple days ago. I’ve been looking at it wanting to recreate the shot. This shot for me revealed the following:
- Strong top-down lighting from camera upper front (to Anne’s right) creating the highlights in her forehead, nose, but bleeding onto her left cheekbones.
- Strong lighting from camera front-left creating the highlights in her arms.
- Strong top down lighting from camera upper right creating the highlights in her back.
- Fill lighting to balance out the shadows.
- Use of blown highlights to create the ethereal effect of the subject with the white background.
It took me 32 exposures but I think I got most of the effect. There are slight angular differences as well as the fact that I combined both the top-left and the front-left together and used only 1 light. Thus I was not able to create the same highlights in the arms as the picture above. Actually it wasn’t that I couldn’t, I simply didn’t figure it out until after comparing the two pictures. Here’s my version below, admittedly Anne’s slightly better looking:
