Photographing Business Portaits
Jean-Francois O’Kane, the Studio Coach, talks about setting up a simple, two-light studio session for a business portrait.
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Comment by demtl | February 12, 2009 @ 2:20 am
Very good. It would be interesting to know what ISO, aperture, and speed you used for the photos. Thanks.
Comment by Richard | February 12, 2009 @ 8:43 pm
Dear Richard,
As a rule of thumb I do not give specific satas on a pic. The setup that you will do will differ in poer-distance or camera type. The most important feature is to know how to do it and to expose not to burn your highlights.
This particular set was done at 400ISO-1/40th-f5.0.
jf
TheStudioCoach
Comment by Jean-Francois O'Kane | February 13, 2009 @ 10:43 am
Thanks. I can understand why you would use a tripod…:)
Comment by Richard | February 13, 2009 @ 10:51 am
Wow super professionnel encore une fois, très contente pour toi.
ma question est-ce des flash ou lumière continue, il me semble ne pas avoir vue flasher.
merci de partagé avec nous ça gratuitement, Donner et vous recevrez !tu va en ressortir gagnant, sûrement déjà gagnant
lâche pas tu m’inspire
Comment by zabel | February 15, 2009 @ 9:00 am
She’s smokin’! Nice looking models ALWAYS help…
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Comment by Wylde | April 1, 2009 @ 9:18 pm
I agree that a good looking model helps but I want to see a real 50+ year old executive that needs REAL soft light filled in all around.
I think I would like to have a little reality here in that most “executives” getting shots are older and need different lighting needs.But that said young or old I would have brought a softbox in and cross lit the subject wrapping the light around her.
Jeff
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Comment by Jeff | April 21, 2009 @ 10:17 am
Very nice tutorial. Thank you.
Comment by Braintrove.com | April 22, 2009 @ 12:05 pm
Jean,
There are several things that you forgot to mention in your tutorial. One is why your using a lens hood. And two you need to talk about the amount of power your supplying to any artificial light source.
And lastly I would have gotten an additional model who wasn’t fair skinned so that more types of people are covered in your tutorial.
Comment by Nick | June 28, 2009 @ 9:04 pm
thanks for all your work in offering these free teaching aids…cheers
Comment by mainemonty | November 8, 2009 @ 3:04 pm
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