FIGURE 7.6 “Chinese Meal.” © Douglas Freer/Dreamstime
PEOPLE SHOTS 125slightly and I did not use a fi ll-in card refl ector in this case. I also
used the natural wood table as a surface in place of a white
tablecloth.
People Shots
Of course, a lot of microstock photographers use studios for shots of
people. Those classic business shots that are big sellers on the micro-
stocks are usually taken in a studio environment. I took the main cover
shot in a studio. A simple portrait setup suitable for a single subject
is shown in Figure 7.7. Shots taken with the simple lighting setup in
this image can be very useful for microstock photography, as my
youngest son has demonstrated with the Easter-related shot shown in
Figure 7.8. (The table was covered with a white tablecloth and light-
ened a little more in Photoshop later.)