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Some of my favorite headshots
I love using very simple backgrounds and I direct my clients like I would when shooting a movie to get that
emotion from them to make the shot interesting. I just tell the model to laugh, or be serious, or suggests pos-
tions that they can use to engage their viewers. They have to be comfortable with you, so be confident in
your approach. After a few minutes, they will get into the spirit of the session and you’ll get great shots.
The first one below is using all natural light from the window behind me, I used one small fluorescent softbox
behind her as a rim light. The key light from the window was diffused north light coming through the win-
dow without any filter or fabric. Shot on a Canon 5d with a Canon 50mm 1.4 set at f 2.8, 1/125 ISO 800.
The next photo on the right was shot using a 60” moonlight as the key light set at 1/16 power, and a studio
strobe with an eggcrate as the rim light at 1/16 power. Canon 5d with 24-105mm lens at f4 and 1/125 at
ISO 800. For both I used Lightroom using a split tone filter that I modified from Kuboto Presets. I used a white
backdrop.