POST YOUR HEADSHOTS!

modyo wrote in post #19221275
Sandra.

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the visible egg creates actually work in this image.

MagLena

Hey folks,

Just sharing two quick pics. Nothing fancy like those shared here, but business portraits are definitely a staple for me.

For both of these ladies I had less than 5 minutes and in both cases, by the time I took 5-7 shots, they stated they were busy and that was it, so I didn't get many variations.

The one on the teal background, I had the leisure of 20 minutes set up to pop up a background and meter the shot. That one was 3 lights. A fill directly behind camera in a 60 inch umbrella, a main light to camera right which was a 43 inch umbrella and a 24 inch softbox (pops open like an umbrella) as rim/hair light to camera left behind subject. Everything was done with speedlights for mobility and speed. I spent the first 5 shots coaching her on her hands and fingers and showing her the back of the camera when folding her arms and the 6th and 7th shot were identical, but I took two just in case. Once I got that shot, she was done.

The lady in her office was lit with a speedlight and the 43 inch umbrella. That was done without any luxury of metering. I set it up in her office and she said she was in a hurry so I grabbed stuff off her desk and put it on a chair on the side and told her to continue working while I got my exposure. I took two test shots in which I made one adjustment to the umbrella angle and a second to adjust the power and then I told her I was ready. In the first shot, she was typing away on her laptop still as she wanted a photo of her typing an email, but I didn't like it at all, but still had to oblige. I then asked her to turn to me and write in her diary instead and after I took two shots, that was the one she went with.

Both images had to be delivered the same day so I just did some minor retouch work on some skin blemishes and ran it through Imagenomic portraiture and I was done.

For your time frame, great stuff. Not a fan of the office setting in number two but it's certainly not your fault.

Sigh, have to love when folks sign up for work and rush you in what you need to do haha.

Great job being rushed and avoiding reflections in their glasses.

Lauren C.

What a doll!

ScottMurphy wrote in post #19222282
Lauren C.

What a doll!

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Beautiful.

One of my old time favs

From the soother sessions

A Brit from Brooklyn

Sandra