Of course, i can't say 100% that this is the very first, but seeing that the site is still under 2 weeks old, and no one has laid claim yet, i'm taking the credit for it!

So, by now your probably wondering WTF i'm talking about, Well yesterday I (I being http://www.altdiva.com/andrewoatham) shot the ravishing MsNicotina (http://www.altdiva.com/msnicotina) & Melbourne's best makeup artist, MakeUpByLisa (http://www.altdiva.com/makeupbylisa) was on makeup & hair / styling ... So you can see, everyone involved was a member of AltDiva.com!

It's a bit early to show you the fruits of our labour, but I can tell you that we shot 3 beautifully naughty sets of MsNicotina, for an up and coming adult website - which we're not currently allowed to name :o( ....

Heres a 'safe for work' pic (before the photoshop work), preview of the start of one set ...

And for all the photo geeks heres a few pics of the setup.

For this shoot we made a giant softbox out of polystyrene bounce boards, and a custom made monster flash unit ... So heres the overall picture of what it all looked like.

Your see 2 lots of lights. On the left, a grid with a blue gel over the top, and on the right the monster softbox ... Here's the softbox pulled apart.

Note the rather large flash tubes. The polly boards are setup in a triangle, with the point of the triangle pointing at the model, and the flash tubes pointing away from the model (the photo light comes from the light bouncing around inside the triangle and escaping thru the point. The point is only open around half a foot, this gives a sharp line of lighting. The opening is covered with a translucent material which 'softens' the light. The small opening is directed away from the background otherwise it would wash out the blue grid light.

And here's the blue background lighting.

The background lighting effect is made by the paper you see thats cut up, with a strobe & very tight grid behind it cover by a blue gel ... It might look like someone has sliced a bit of paper up, and then clumsily tried to tape it back together, but believe me, it took a long time to stick that together to get the background I was looking for. The polly boards scattered around are to stop the light 'spilling' out where i don't want it ...

Equipment used for the shoot - Canon MK III Ds, Canon EF 135L & Canon 85mm L II USM

Bye for now!