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tnguyen600
31st of May 2009 (Sun), 13:32
So I take a lot of pictures for my fraternity for our events and my one brother approached me and asked if I could take some head shots of him for his auditions.

I have never done any portraits or anything like that, so I was wondering if anyone could provide me with tips, advices, links, or whatever that could give me decent head shots. Thanks in advance!


-T. Nguyen
toxic
2nd of June 2009 (Tue), 02:54
Assuming you can get a flash off-camera, put it ~45 degrees to one side and 45 above, and use something white as a reflector on the opposite side. If not, I guess shoot in portrait and bounce the flash off the ceiling (if possible), angled slightly towards him. There might be a better method, but you can at least start there and experiment.
gconda
8th of June 2009 (Mon), 15:52
I just did the same thing. Check out my post and the replies to my work. some very good info, suggestions and ideas about posing.

http://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthread.php?t=702003
shooterfoto
9th of June 2009 (Tue), 17:58
So I take a lot of pictures for my fraternity for our events and my one brother approached me and asked if I could take some head shots of him for his auditions.

I have never done any portraits or anything like that, so I was wondering if anyone could provide me with tips, advices, links, or whatever that could give me decent head shots. Thanks in advance!


-T. Nguyen

Stand about five feet away and fill the lens with his head....frame, focus, fire!
tnguyen600
22nd of June 2009 (Mon), 02:13
So when I do a headshot, it's literally a headshot. In other words, I'm not shooting his mid waist and above. Does the background matter? Pose? Formal or informal etc.
wasabimaniac
29th of June 2009 (Mon), 17:26
You can google images of "headshots" and you'll some good samples.
If you're lazy: http://images.google.ca/images?hl=en&sa=1&q=headshots&aq=f&oq=

Be sure to focus on the eyes!
OneEyedJack
30th of June 2009 (Tue), 07:05
Headshots are generally from the chest up
asysin2leads
4th of July 2009 (Sat), 18:29
Here are the ones I did. They are pretty easy because you really don't have to change the setup at all. These were shot w/ 40D and Sigma 70-200. Subject was 6' from background. Had one AB800 set as main light at 90 degrees to camera right and another AB800 set by the camera for fill.

http://picasaweb.google.com/buckeyedoc06/Headshots