Portrait of a Lawyer

Day 313 of 365

"Portrait of a Lawyer"

 

This is Jeffrey. Jeffrey is a lawyer. Jeffrey is a nice lawyer. I had the pleasure of photographing Jeffrey at his office. As is the case in most offices, there was not a lot of space in which to work. There is an old joke that ninety percent of photography is moving furniture. That was pretty much the case in Jeffrey's shoot. I brought my seamless paper, my hand-painted canvas, and a pop-up background. Naturally, we ended up using the wall. It is amazing what one can do with a bare wall, assuming you have some space and lights. Our key light is beauty dish with a sock at camera-left. By feathering the light, I avoided any of the light spilling on to the wall behind the good lawyer. I knew I was going to light back there, and did not want the light contaminated. It is just in front of Jeffrey, and is feathered to the wall at camera-right. I had to take down a painting from the 1980s (I'm not judging), and used the white wall to fill in the shadow's on our subject's left cheek. I then placed a pop-up fill card just under Jeffrey's chin. It fills in some of the shadows under his chin. The beauty dish is a relatively small light source, so bounce and fill help in some areas. Lastly, there is a snooted speedlight in the background, creating the halo-like light on the wall behind him. While I would have loved to have the room to insert another light to rimlight the camera-right side of his cheek.....there was no room. Sometimes having no options is an asset. Thanks for dropping in!!

 

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