Hair Photography

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I have been asked to do some hair photography next week, its going to be illustrating how to do a certain cut.

has anyone done this before?

or have any ideas/ tips?


thank you

ps. my equipment
Canon 40D
Canon 18-85 4-5.6
Sigma 10-20
Canon 50 1.8
Sigma 70-200 2.8

portable lighting kit, reflector and light meter will be rented from the uni.

they also have other lighting kit i can borrow.
 
I think you wont really need a lighting kit as most salons have pretty good lighting to start with but I may be wrong as I have never done anything like this...........good luck with the shoot
 
Oh no, its a danger mouse convention :lol:

I would agree most salons usually have reasonable light but also lots of mirrors :)
 
just a thought, but if it's illustrating how to do the cut, you probably need to think fairly simple... I'd probably bounce a light off the ceiling and be done with it, and there'll hopefully be some nice front fill from the mirror, or lights around it...much more and with all the mirrors floating about the place, I can see you having some real fun (a) keeping it out of shot and (b) not getting all sorts of funky reflections all over the place...

also probably want to keep the photos almost all from the same side (look up the 180 degree rule used in filming), or at least include a bit of face or whatever, to make it obvious what's happening where...
 
Not sure I can offer any advice although it does sound like an interesting brief! This is something I was going to approach a salon in York about as a friend works there, however I was beaten to it which was a shame as they do cat walk shows for the trainees when they qualify, national competitions and such.

Have a look on toni&guy sites etc and see which angles, compositions they go for.
 
cheers for the tips,
i will take a lighting kit ect anyway as it always looks more professional, the salon is very bright and mostly white with floor to ceiling mirrors so will have to keep a eye out for the reflections.

thanks for the tips. i will keep it simple and chat to the stylist and see what he wants.

(i think i should have picked a different user name :lol: )
 
Depends if you are taking the photos while he is cutting or if he is going to do a stage then let you take a photo then do a nother stage and so on.

for the first Id set up some lights just to bounce
if the second Id set up a studio setting in a spare room or out of the way take the model to one side take the photo and send her back, make the lighting really focused on the hair to give the detail and show off the cut

just two thoughts
 
The 50mm looks like the lens of choice since you don't want wide angles distorting things and the 70mm might be a bit long indoors. (and the quality is very good)
 
Ok hair lighting is actually very specialised :)

If you are doing it to illustrate a cut then you will be fine with some simple lighting.

The kind of pics you get on Toni and Guy are done properly and use three and four lights. Main light, fill light and special hair lights with snoots/grids and backlights.
 
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