Thanks Colin. I'll be shooting location/strobe (2 Metz heads, 60 and 60/40) and using a Seikonic L508 in spot mode, with a grey card. I'm gonna meter off the grey card, find the difference with her skin, and compensate on the meter exactly to what it says.(posted 8830 days ago)I already have in my head how I want to shoot her for each of the RDPIII rolls, so I'll tell you and maybe get some advice:
1 roll) with a black backdrop, one light to each side of her, with one side a little lighter than the other. I mean I want no detail in the background, the front of her face exposed normally, and each side/cheek a little overexposed, one more than the other.
2 roll) Bounced off white in front of her with one head, the other light behind her against a white backdrop, way overexposed to pure white--hence the reason for only half length shots; I don't want the blown out background to be uneven with the light.
The make-up is going to be wild with both: for the black backdrop, I want sultry reds and dark blues, maybe a little 'sweaty' but still fashion/not glamour; for the white backdrop, I want pastels, magenta lips and baby ble eyes, maybe some gold sparkles or something, and maybe even some white powder (or whatever it's called) on her face; she has a beautiful old Chinese traditional gown and I want to get that 'Chinese opera' look, albeit with a strong fashion twist...I may paint a tatoo of a dragon on her neck and do some head shots of that (worked for me in the past with 35mm...)
Any more advice? Thanks guys...shawn