LAB ENVIRONMENTS

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If you are ever requested to shoot in a lab environment, or other sterile location such as commercial kitchens or hospitals, always do your best to have a brighter background than foreground.

The lighter background will accentuate the viewers feeling of cleanliness and professionalism. A darker background will appear slightly depressing, and not as sterile. To get this shot, I used a Nikon speedlight and placed it on remote firing. When my normal studio strobe fired in the lab, the small Nikon flash fired inside the glass enclosure (behind the model). Had I not illuminated this background, the image would have lost almost all of its value.

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