Sample pages from the book Lights, Camera… Nude! showing the start of the chapter on Studio Lighting. Nine of the 18 lighting setups in the book are studio lighting setups.

Sample pages from the book Lights, Camera… Nude! showing accent lights, separation lights, and the effect of angle of light. Including examples of back light, kicker, and rim lights.

Sample pages from the book Lights, Camera… Nude , start of the chapter on Lighting Concepts for Nude Photography. This chapter discusses the importance of lighting, contrast ratio, setting up your studio to affect light, metering your lights, how many lights do you need, large close light, accent and separation lights, direction/angle of light, quality of light (hard vs. soft), and lighting equipment.

These are sample pages from Lights Camera Nude

Quick Reference of Lighting Setups. There are 18 lighting setups in the book. These pages summarize with descriptions, categories, light kits, heads required, model zone, and what page the diagram can be found on.

Model: Lauren

Background paper: thunder grey

Light 1: striplight (17×58”) 300 WS; camera right, slightly behind model

Light 2: 24×24 softbox with grid, camera left, 300 WS

Light 3: 7” reflector, sock, grid; 150 WS, camera left; 9 feet high, behind pointed back and down at model

Light 4: 7” reflector, sock, grid; 150 WS, 3 feet high, behind model, pointed at leg

In the second shot I think the camera angle works better. I also like the angle of her head better. I wanted thing all leading you towards the iron (hard to do when there is a beautiful nude to look at.) I think I need to find a larger and more colorful iron to make this shot sufficiently quirky. I also would have liked to have wrapped the cord around the leg a few times to make it a design element where it crosses the leg.

Here are some preview pages from my book True Confessions of Nude Photography.