I love photographing people of all walks of life, but honestly it's the biggest honor to be asked by a fellow photographer to do their portraits. This is a portrait I took yesterday, using a two light setup. The white background is a flash in a large octa aimed directly at the camera for a nice white backdrop with a wrap-around lighting effect, a diffused beauty dish for the main light, and a white reflector positioned beneath his face just out of frame. Photographed using an original Canon 5D with a Canon 100mm f/2.8 macro usm lens.
f/8, 1/160th sec, ISO 100.
A hero headshot, Daniel. I'm gonna bet you clicked on the background to make it white. The hairline on the top of his head needs work. I'm glad to see someone else hasn't mastered selecting hair.
GoodEgg wrote:
A hero headshot, Daniel. I'm gonna bet you clicked on the background to make it white. The hairline on the top of his head needs work. I'm glad to see someone else hasn't mastered selecting hair.
Thank you.
I'm not sure what you mean by clicking to get the background white, unless you mean the shutter click. There was no selection made on the hair whatsoever. All of this was done in camera; the only editing in post was some spot removal and subtle dodge and burn on the skin.The white background was achieved with practical lighting using a large octabox with a flash positioned behind the model aimed directly at the camera.
I'm not sure what you mean by clicking to get the background white, unless you mean the shutter click. There was no selection made on the hair whatsoever. All of this was done in camera; the only editing in post was some spot removal and subtle dodge and burn on the skin.The white background was achieved with practical lighting using a large octabox with a flash positioned behind the model aimed directly at the camera.
I think he means it looks like you masked the subject out from the background which often causes some artifacts in the hair area, in this case I think you are getting some compression artifacts from downsizing to the web which can look similar.
I don't have any useful critique for you, this shot looks great to me. I think I'm going to steal your idea of using my big octabox as a background sometime...
formula4speed wrote:
I think he means it looks like you masked the subject out from the background which often causes some artifacts in the hair area, in this case I think you are getting some compression artifacts from downsizing to the web which can look similar.
I don't have any useful critique for you, this shot looks great to me. I think I'm going to steal your idea of using my big octabox as a background sometime...
Thank you. Yeah definitely no masking in this shot. This is one of my favorite portrait lighting setups. I hope it works well for you.
