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p.1 #3 · p.1 #3 · High Key Family Portrait: Getting the ground clean white? | |
By "poses on the floor" do you mean subjects that are seated on the floor, or full body standing poses? If the former, your challenges are a lot easier. Just light them from above, centered above the camera, with your broadest umbrella. Add some fill from directly in front to lift the shadows; you can use a reflector for that, or a weaker flash. Many people don't think to place a fill source (the light itself) below the camera except for headshots, but it works nicely, either bounced off a reflector on the floor, or directly aimed at the subjects and dialed down enough such that it becomes "the light you don't see", that is, you only notice it when it's not there. If you have enough room, bring them far enough from the backdrop to enable you to light the seamless with two of your speed lights, placed on opposite sides of the backdrop and aimed at the far sides (cross lighting). Be careful not to light the backdrop so strongly as to cause "blowback" onto your subjects from behind.
One thing I would strongly advise is to set this up and test it thoroughly before you need to shoot the family, so you understand what each light needs to do.
Lastly, don't be afraid to admit that you can indeed improve your white background and floor in Photoshop if you don't get it perfectly in camera.
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