"you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right"

working in the places that i like to work you find strange things. Stranger even then even then the things that you expect to find when you visit abandoned buildings. Sometimes I expect to find some history but the strange things i find always have to do with the juxtaposition of the abandoned and the new. Why would a building with rusted cabinets, grime inches thick, falling brick work, plants growing through the roof have a gross of coffee cup lids on the floor? Pristine white for the most part. Obviously brought to the location after it's downfall? strange. the key to me is in finding the beauty, the absurdity, the art in this and trying to capture it. Sometimes I do. Most times I don't but I'll keep trying.

In this shot Narcissa  wears a dress from Zorenko London 

D800 with Nikkor 58 1.4

1/1600th @ 1.4 ISO 800

2 SB-910's gaffed together and zoomed out to 18mm. The lights were moved relatively far back to still give extreme fall off and isolate the model from the background. the room would have metered somewhere around 1/400th at 1.4 at 800 so the background is underexposed by 2 full stops. This gives the bright colors of the dress some serious pop amongst the naturally desaturated and underexposed background. the harsh shadows on Narcissa are the price to be paid for putting the flashes so far away but in this instance it was done with purpose as I liked the effect. 

Eyes As Big As SaucersRainbox Latex dress on Narcissa