Julia Hetta’s photographs provide a glimpse of an alternative world, rich with the romance and quietude associated with classical painting. Working almost exclusively with natural light and long exposure times, Hetta imbues her subjects with a sense of serenity and power. Her use of light, color and texture transforms her fashion photographs into compositions of timeless enchantment’
Hetta uses large soft boxes and reflectors to create the soft lighting that can be related to a painting from an earlier time in history. The image shows a model sat on a chair. Her head is to the side, as she crosses her legs in an elegant pose. Her clothes are also of a victorian era, making the image look much older than it is. The soft lighting creates an elegant seen, which looks like natural lighting from a window, but is most likely a soft box. It seems the shutter speed is around 1/80, with an iso of 100 and aperature of f/11.
This image also look like a painting, due to the soft lighting and victorian painting portryal of the subject. This image shows a subject holding an apple cut into two parts, one in each hand. She seems to be against a black backdrop with one light source. It appeard that a large soft box is to the left of her at an angle. There is still light coming from the right, but a lot more subtle, perhaps by using a reflector to bring up the shadow to show her eye, without it being lost in the shadows.
I could potentially use this kind of lighting in a studio shoot. I feel as if I would have to incoroprate other styles and techniques to make it more relevant to my chosen style and magazine, but I could use a light source to create a soft outcome for a studio shot inside.
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