For this look, we were inspired by an iconic power shot of supermodel Christy Turlington with wet hair and a black bodysuit. Usually when Rio and I brainstorm a concept, we’ll find a few images, usually vintage, that we’re inspired by and try to put our own spin on them. This was the image that we loosely based our shoot with Asel on.

Having only ever shot with strobes or natural light, I was excited to try shooting with continuous LEDs and was curious to see how the experience would be. When you light with LEDs, what you see is what you get - you can adjust your lighting and see how your images will turn out in real time. The Nanlite Forza 500 is powerful enough that you can shoot with a range of apertures and it also worked really well for behind the scenes video.

Taken with the Nanlight Forza 500 with a reflector and mixed with a bit of ambient window light

Taken with the Nanlight Forza 500 with a parabolic octabox

Have you ever shot with continuous lights? Let me know what you think!