Photography question of the day...
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- bigtrick0
the one on the right at least has been 'shopped to shit, so whatever you do, be prepared to spend a lot of time in ps to get those nice gradients on your flat surfaces...
(worklights are a different color temperature than window light so it's best to avoid the window, unless you can get some nice gels to convert your tungsten worklights to a cooler kind of light).
anyway. the key for duplicating those shots is avoiding shadows. try setting up your lights like this - one above your stage, highly diffused, to light everything including the background. diffuse with a couple of huge sheets of yr tissue paper stretched out under the light maybe a foot or two underneath the light and a foot above your stage so you get a nice big soft light source. set up another worklight above and to the side of your camera, also highly diffused with a big stretched out sheet of tissue paper (you may need several layers). set your camera on a tripod in front, set for f8 or f11 or something in aperture priority so that you get a good depth of field, and try it out... you will prob. get a big diffuse shadow on the opposite side of your subject from your front light, but that's ok.
you can also experiment with picking up a worklight and moving it around during the exposure to minimize shadows. to get the photo on the left in your linked picture though, i think you need three lights.