Actress Evelyn Nardo recently contacted me about shooting some head shots for her. I wanted to give her different looks without having to do a lot of changing my backdrops, so I did all three of these shots on white seamless paper. It's not that hard to do and it's a good trick to have up your sleeve when doing portrait photography. In the above shot, I have my camera shutter speed set to 1/200 sec, and my ISO at 200 (that's pretty much where I start on most jobs), my aperture is set to f/11, white balance is set to Flash. I held my Sekonic L-358 light meter under her chin and fired my main light (one AlienBees B800)while adjusting for a f/11 reading on the meter. I adjusted my background lights (two AlienBees B800's) for a light meter reading of F/16. This caused the background to go almost perfectly white. A little clean up was required in Photoshop.
In the next shot, I turned off the background lights, bumped my aperture up to f/16 and adjusted my main light accordingly. This made the background go very dark giving this portrait a totally different look.
In this last portrait, I changed my white balance to incandescent, Adjusted my ISO to 800, shutter speed to 1/125 sec., and my aperture to F3.2 I turned my main light's flash off and just used the modeling lamp. This made the background go blue, and gives the photograph a soft feel. There you have it, three totally different portrait looks that can be achieved pretty quickly without the hassle of changing that paper.
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