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Rose Byrne is in a new movie…Juliet, Naked…that’s coming out August 17th and Alexandra Wolfe just profiled her for the ‘Weekend Confidential’ feature in the Wall Street Journal. Coincidentally, we shot Ethan Hawke…her co-star in the film…a few weeks back. Here’s a look at our day with Rose…
Rose and the Glam Squad took over the back end of the studio…
After going over the wardrobe, we really liked a beautiful beaded dress for our first shot…very soft and feminine…and since the studio had a nice wall of windows, we thought of using the natural light…
…but the natural light wasn’t quite enough to rely on, so we had to improvise a bit. I added a 5′ umbrella outside the door for our main light…
…and a second five-footer clamped to the fire escape for the other window…
Those two big umbrellas gave us the consistent soft daylight look we needed…
But a third five-footer was added above the camera for some soft fill and we tweaked the color & contrast corrections in Capture One…it looked a lot better with Rose in place…
For our second shot, we dragged the umbrellas off of the fire escape and quickly positioned them into a ten foot high wall of softness against some whitewashed wood planks…
Let’s go with the white motorcycle jacket and black jeans…
For the final series, I wanted to get a bit darker & moodier, so we set up a boomed 7′ parabolic umbrella against a rough concrete wall…
As much as I like the previous shot with the white MC, the black-on-black version was really the way to go…
And for one final variation, we simply dialed in the shadows a bit…
The Rose Byrne interview is in The Wall Street Journal right now…
Thanks for the great day, Rose…
Damn Ugly Photography 
Man, just beautiful work. What a gorgeous subject.
Beautiful work Brad.
BT, brilliant work as always, and just more proof that you’re a very special photographer.