I’m a big fan of Zack Arias.  Not just because of his photography, but because of his philosophy.  A few weeks back he took part in a three day workshop over at Creative Live (David DuChemin is on this weekend – check it out!) and ever since I’ve been wanting to shoot on white seemless.  That look is Zack’s – but hey – I can borrow it.

Unfortunately, I couldn’t find a person willing to put up with me.  That’s not true.  I didn’t try.  What I did find was John Cicada floating in Lucy’s pool this afternoon.  I knew there was a roll of paper in the kid’s craft stuff.  Time to shoot on white!

All of this was done with one light into a shoot through umbrella.  I set the exposure by manually setting the white to the point it would just blow out.  Then in I dropped the bug in right at the front edge of the light.

The point was to work – to work with the light. I’ve been shooting with flash a lot lately and I’m growing quite fond of it. I find I have less to do in post when I pull out a flash and manually work my exposures.