Sunday, July 5, 2009

Executive Headshots, May 2009

In May we got a chance to do something completely different - corporate headshots! Formal portraiture is not something that we choose to do very often, but every once in a while we like to mix it up with something different. We were commisioned to take portraits of Kilmer Capital executives in a beautiful Scotia Plaza office in downtown Toronto. Corporate portraits can look very dull and uninteresting if you opt for a safe, typical lighting setup, but we wouldn't be B&N if we didnt take the path less traveled :-) So we decided to add a little more character by placing multiple highlights on the faces. Key light was 45 degrees to the left of the camera fitted with a softbox, and fill was placed to the side (and slightly of the behind) the subjects (on camera's right). Finally we had 1 strobe + snoot on the background coming from the left side. This gave a very "spotlight like" quality to the background, while providing plenty of highlight and shadow regions on sublects' faces, creating a very three dimensional look.

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