Tim's actor style headshots

Along with the hoodie and 'weight' images posted earlier, which I did for fun, we made some headshots for Tim's portfolio. Here are the first two chosen by his agency.





I know these are 9x12, but that is what I was asked to produce. I always do my master edits at the full camera frame, so alternate crops are not an issue. These may look a little soft in web size because I did no sharpening. In fact I did no sharpening at all from the RAW data to the final print size images. The 70-200mm and the D200 are tack sharp.

As usual for this kind of shot, no skin processing either. Just a touch of patch tool to remove a (temporary) blemish here and there.

Comments appreciated as always.

 

Thanks for all the comments. I'll post a diagram later tonight. Don't be shocked if it's a single light setup :biggrin:

 

Well I need to admit I did have more than one light on for this shot but the subject was lit with a single 48" octobox and two reflectors



A few notes:

- The two rectangle boxes are 30x60 and used to light the BG since the subject is 15 feet from the rear wall. I did not meter them but used my eyes and test shots to get the level I wanted.

- The bookend is white and not black. I was lazy and didn't want to change the color on the diagram.

- There was another white reflector parallel to the floor at lap level for fill.

- I edited the iris' to remove the reflections of the reflectors.

 

Last one. The 8x10 for his resume.



Check the Film Forum in a few days for the Portra 160NC images.

Next comes Astia  

 

I put it on a posing stool that sits just above the subjects lap and they can lean over it a bit. KMH had some sort of boom arm with a clamp that held his. Some day I might get industrious and make one for myself. It's just a sheet of foamcore that's about 30x40.