Beau - Head Shot Shoot

Did a little photo shoot last night with an aspiring actor. We wanted to go for a real professional, standard, run of the mill photos, so no real crazy artistic stuff this time.. Although I did a little bit of retouching on a photo that I'll upload later that definitely stretched where we were going.

Since I exclusively shoot on location, often times my own apartment and surround areas, we had to make due with some creativity in the backgrounds and framing. We used part of my backyard for to add some green into the photograph.. almost framing the head with it. One off camera flash and using the sun as a backlight.


Next we went inside for a few... I used a chair to frame this next one.. Shot with two lights.. one on either side 6:1 ratio using ETTL a shoot through umbrella and a very small softbox. It was pretty dark on the right portion of his face so I brought up levels in photoshop.. he really liked it even though the shot was a flub. Expression makes the image!

Not too bad.. These are all full size images straight from the camera.. I haven't done any cropping yet..




And the last one.. I had a white reflector that I used as a backdrop. Worked well for having a gray / whitish background that is easily movable. I wish I had another light as a rim or hair light in this photo.. or even to up the light level on the background. Coming soon ! :)

All in all it was a successful shoot and he is very happy to have these photos for his resume. Good luck to you Beau!





I lied, here is the last one that I toned a lot. Looks almost like he has some kind of silver paint on. It was fun to mess around with. :)