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http://vimeo.com/48245994

This seems to have been around for a while but I've only just seen it... the whole shoot took just over three minutes! I'm surprised at how little direction the tog seems to give Jobs too.

I'm curious what the woman in the foreground is doing at 00:55, she's holding up what looks like a reflector but seems to be blocking the keylight with it. Reducing the intensity of it perhaps? :shrug:
 
Flashman said:
http://vimeo.com/48245994

This seems to have been around for a while but I've only just seen it... the whole shoot took just over three minutes! I'm surprised at how little direction the tog seems to give Jobs too.

I'm curious what the woman in the foreground is doing at 00:55, she's holding up what looks like a reflector but seems to be blocking the keylight with it. Reducing the intensity of it perhaps? :shrug:
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The pull back shortly afterwards makes this clear. There's a light camera left which has a big poly board angling it. That will actually give side/rear lighting to Steve (if you look at the finished image - it's lighting the rim of his glasses). However, on the other side there's a shiny chrome bar which will bounce back a lot of light. She's holding a black card to stop the reflection.

The fact that she's standing there all along and puts it up with just a word from the photographer shows their test shots will have shown this might be necessary.

The text says they used the 2nd frame which was before she put the card up. So you can see the splash back.

http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?imgu...h4fUre5BMaR7AbvuIGYCg&ved=0CDMQ9QEwAA&dur=371

It's also shading some of the main light from his forehead. You can see the effect here...

http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1977113,00.html
 
Not a moment to realise that you've left the camera on AV after you've finished :-)
 
Hodders said:
Not a moment to realise that you've left the camera on AV after you've finished :-)
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You'll notice one of the assistants is roughly the same height as Steve. That's unlikely to be an accident.

This is the premier league.
 
I don't think the video shows the actual cover shot being taken.

The softbox with the board camera-left is definitely firing and my guess is that's the shot in Jonanthan's second link?
 
HoppyUK said:
I don't think the video shows the actual cover shot being taken.
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Text says it's the second frame and it looks like we have everything on the video from him entering the room up to and including that shot.

What makes you think it's not the first one I link to?
 
JonathanRyan said:
Text says it's the second frame and it looks like we have everything on the video from him entering the room up to and including that shot.

What makes you think it's not the first one I link to?
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Hard to say really, but I don't think we're seeing all the different sets, or all the permutations within each one.

The front cover looks to me like the first set up, but with the softbox camera-left turned off. Then the second shot in your links (this one http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1977113,00.html ) looks as though that softbox is providing the strong light from the left, as per the video, but then the key light from the right doesn't fit the shadows or catch-lights either.
 
Like you say, it's hard to tell - especially as we're looking at retouched images. But I can't see anything on the cover shot that's inconsistent with the shot in the video.

Main light is angled across the scene which would give the shadow on camera left. I was imagining the heavily flagged softbox on the left was just enough to rim light his glasses.

In the second shot, Steve has turned his face so the left hand light is acting as a kicker. Shadow from the glasses arm looks a little too sharply defined to make sense and the catchlights seem lower than I'd expect - maybe they got breathed on in post ;)
 
JonathanRyan said:
Like you say, it's hard to tell - especially as we're looking at retouched images. But I can't see anything on the cover shot that's inconsistent with the shot in the video.

Main light is angled across the scene which would give the shadow on camera left. I was imagining the heavily flagged softbox on the left was just enough to rim light his glasses.

In the second shot, Steve has turned his face so the left hand light is acting as a kicker. Shadow from the glasses arm looks a little too sharply defined to make sense and the catchlights seem lower than I'd expect - maybe they got breathed on in post ;)
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:)
 
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