We’re in Charlotte NC for the next 5 days working with an international law firm. This client has offices across the United Stated and a few in Europe. We are contracted to go to each office, set-up our studio and create new or updated headshots for each of their 1000+ attorneys.
When you’re working with a client like this the key is typically consistency. We have to provide amazing consistency between each of their locations both now and going forward. Attorneys that are photographed 6/12/40 months from now need to look the same (lighting, background, etc.) as the attorneys that we photograph today. This also requires a “bullet-proof” lighting set-up that is versatile and can be set-up in both large conference rooms as well as small shooting areas.
We’re supplied a schedule at the beginning of each day, with 6 appointments per hour (10 minutes per session). We typically shoot 10-15 frames per person in a variety of positions (poses). We worked closely with the firms marketing department to determine the 3-4 poses that they wanted to use. Again, all of this leads to increased consistency among the images. Once we shoot the images we import (ingest) them into our 17″ MacBook Pro, where we sit with the subject and review each image using PhotoMechanic. PhotoMechanic is our image browser of choice because it allows us to quickly compare multiple images and select the best ones from a group.
Once the images are selected we do a series of retouching techniques, save the files to our local hard-drive, back-up the files then FTP the final retouched images to the client. We’ll do this for each of their 20+ office locations and 1000+ attorneys, generating 100′s of gigabytes of data over the next 6 weeks of shooting.
