Head Shot

This was a pretty successful head shot I thought. The background was kinda unique. I had shot in the black paper and wanted a different look. I had some hard board laying around the studio, it's a thin flexible board looks like peg board with out the holes. Well its not to heavy so I hung it with a quick clamp and a auto pole. It took about 2 min to set. Then I bounced the background light off it and bumped up the power a bit. I used the shoe reflector so I could create some graduation. I was shooting at f/5.6 and if I had metered it would got about f/11 at the background right behind the sitter. My lens was the 85mm prim so the trick bit is staying on top of the focus. There is very little depth of field with that lens at f/5.6 so it's important to reestablish focus after each shot. The short depth of field gives the background a nice glow and because the background is flat it bounces the light right back at you. The only real problem was that I was using a scrap and it was only about 4 foot square so I had to work to keep it behind the subject. Hey what the hell if it's not a little hard it's not really art. Tech Stuff Key light was a soft box about 3 feet from the subject. The background was 6 feet behind the subject and the camera was about 4 feet from the subject. There was also an umbrella on the right that was a working as a fill light . The lighting style was cross and the ratio was darn near 1 to 1