Staff Photos
Mar 7, 2022 22:51:55 #
I did staff photos for the local senior center today. Attached are a few samples.
Mar 7, 2022 23:33:48 #
wayne-03 wrote:
I did staff photos for the local senior center today. Attached are a few samples.
Nice portraits!
The staffs of Senior Centers deserve attention and thanks.
Mar 8, 2022 07:58:57 #
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Mar 8, 2022 10:44:00 #
DaveJ wrote:
These look fantastic! I would also be interested in you lighting set up.
This is a lighting setup that I use all the time. It gives good results and only uses three small lights (one AD200 and two V860II’s). I usually set this lighting up with the main light to the left, the talent always has to play to the light. Once I’m set up, I mark the location of all equipment with a small piece of blue painters’ tape at the end of all equipment legs. That way if something gets moved, I can easily put it back to the original position. I supply a wood stool for the talent to sit on, that will get moved almost every time the talent gets up to leave. I usually shoot at around 160mm and use back bottom focus, I have the 1/3 lines in the view finder turned on and place the top 1/3 line through the talent’s eyes, I move the single point focusing square up to the 1/3 line and toward the light so that it falls on the subject’s front eye so I can easily focus and recompose. That way all the photos have the talent in the same position and the same size in the photo and it is easier to crop to an 8 by 10. When everything is in place and exposures are set, I will do a custom white balance and I’m ready to start shooting. I can usually do one person every two minutes +/-.
Mar 8, 2022 10:49:57 #
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Mar 8, 2022 11:33:20 #
If anyone is interested here is another lighting setup I have been playing with. It only takes three speedlights and you can shoot straight on between the two main lights, light stand.
Mar 8, 2022 14:21:57 #
Mar 8, 2022 14:35:44 #
When I worked for a school yearbook photography and publishing company we used a similar setup as the second one. There were no reflectors and the subject sat on a stool with their body turned toward the main light with the fill light set about 1/2 to 1 stop less on the opposite side and slightly farther from the subject. A "hair light" was placed above the middle of the background aimed at the subjects head and about half or less than the power of the main light. Cameras were fitted with a focus screen having a box centered over the top third of the frame in portrait orientation. We adjusted the medium zoom lens to have the subject's head fit inside that box which provided everyone's head to be the same size when published in a grid pattern on the yearbook pages. Before each session we did a custom white balance and took a photo of a chroma-green card filling the screen to rule out any dust spots.
The layout was carefully measured and marked with tape on a large piece of heavy duty cloth which was laid out and taped down to the floor. Later the cloth was discarded and a cloth tape configuration was used. Once set up we could shoot all day long tethered to a laptop computer using a custom program in which all the students and faculty names had been entered. Each individual name could be brought up and connected to the image taken.
Included were photos of sports teams, clubs, faculty and candid classroom photos. The company also organized and published the yearbooks for the schools.
We took photos in many schools within a large areas of two different states. for some schools we had to stay overnight and do the whole school district over two or three days. At one time we employed around two dozen photographers each assigned to a camera/light equipment set.
The layout was carefully measured and marked with tape on a large piece of heavy duty cloth which was laid out and taped down to the floor. Later the cloth was discarded and a cloth tape configuration was used. Once set up we could shoot all day long tethered to a laptop computer using a custom program in which all the students and faculty names had been entered. Each individual name could be brought up and connected to the image taken.
Included were photos of sports teams, clubs, faculty and candid classroom photos. The company also organized and published the yearbooks for the schools.
We took photos in many schools within a large areas of two different states. for some schools we had to stay overnight and do the whole school district over two or three days. At one time we employed around two dozen photographers each assigned to a camera/light equipment set.
Mar 8, 2022 15:33:01 #
PhotogHobbyist wrote:
When I worked for a school yearbook photography an... (show quote)
Thar’s what I was trying to do with my drawing and other stuff was to build in some repeat-ability. If they get a new hire and need a picture, I should be able to match what they currently have.
I have a question for you, I was using a black background and one of the staff members was a very dark complected young lady with long jet-black hair and a black blouse. On my first picture she just melted into the background. I had to bump the power on my main and rim/hair light by almost two stops to get her up to match the other people. How did you deal with such situations?
Mar 8, 2022 16:02:25 #
I prefer the darker background. How do you set your color balance?
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