We recently had the opportunity to create a new corporate headshot for Amy Andryszak, Director of Government Affairs for Loews Corporation. Amy arrived at our studio prepped and ready for her session. Our goal was consistent with the majority of our sessions…create a professional, yet flattering corporate image that maximized the flexibility and subsequent usage of the image.
We used our favorite main light, the 74″ Elinchrom Octabank, powered by our trusty S200 heads and the Rapid 101 power-pack. The hair light was another S2000 head with an Elinchrom 20-degree grid and the background light is our Nikon SB-900 speedlight on a small stand fitted with a Honl 1/4 grid and 1/4 CTO filter. Our camera for this session was our 12+ MP Nikon D700 with the AF-S VR Micro-Nikkor 104mm/2,8 G IF-ED (that’s a mouthful). We used a large white reflector to camera right, just out of the frame, to provide a little bit of fill. While the Octa has a beautiful wrapping quality to the light we’ve found that most subjects are still concerned when they see a “shadow”, so we have a tendency to fill in the shadow side a little bit. Maybe next time I’ll measure the exact lighting ratios and post those.
We created about 40-42 images and after a quick ingest process with PhotoMechanic we review the images with the client and narrowed the selection down to 17 images. After another round of review the client decided that she loved 3 of the images so much that she couldn’t leave them behind on our hard drives so she selected all 3 of the final candidates. This isn’t new and it’s actually a good “problem” to have…we want the final selection process to be difficult since that means that we’ve produced several nice images that are all worthy of picking.
We rushed the images to our retouching department for some basic touch-up work and electronically delivered all three final retouched images to the client in approximately 26 hours.
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We review the images on-site and the client makes the selections with our assistance
