Sweet Studio is located in Edogawabashi, a few stops on the Yurakucho line from Ikebukuro. It's a pretty nice small studio to work out of, with a variety of looks. The walls were all white, however, and posed a bit of a challenge lighting-wise.
One of the walls had a partial brick texture on it, which I wanted to enhance by positioning flashes to fire along the wall. I added a blue gel to 2 SB26 flashes and arranged them so that the light would scatter along the wall. I did a couple of tests, but found I wasn't getting the coverage I wanted. So I moved them out away from the wall and aimed them more directly to the wall.
The main light was an SB 26 with a white shoot thru umbrella and a 1/4 CTO gel. I also added another SB26 with a 1/4 CTO gel behind the models to create a separation light.
Because the studio was very small, I could not setup the model's position far enough from the wall to prevent the main light from contaminating the background. So I ended up having to lower the background brightness in post.
Did some shots without the gels as well. The lighting for this was an SB26 with a Lastolite Ezybox Hotshoe Softbox to camera right.
The studio had some basic lighting equipment included with the rental, so we utilized it for our final setups since we were running short on time.
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