So. I've been talking about hot lights lately and I decided to grab my Canon G9 and take it with me to do a time lapse video showing a headshot session I did with an actor named Espy for the 2009-2010 season brochure. I didn't put any sound in. It lasts about a minute and covers about 18 minutes of shooting.
The scrim to the left of the frame is a white 72 by 72 inch two stop silk. The light on the extreme left is a Profoto Protungsten fixture with a 1,000 watt lamp. I try to keep Espy angled into the lamp but I also have a convenient white fill to the right. It's a white/black reversible panel on a Chimera frame. The background is a custom gray canvas 9 feet wide. It's lit with a Desisti 300 watt spotlight. The spot of light is there for separation. And to create a halo around the actor.
The people who keep walking into the back of the scene near me and the camera are the marketing director, the theater's creative director, the make up person and the art director. We shot three people yesterday, three today and we'll shoot another 12 over the weekend.
I'm using hot lights so I can shoot as fast as I want to without worry about recycle time. We're also using the same set to do videos for web promotion after I shoot each person. Tomorrow I'll post a final shot from this shoot. One of our goals was to get very shallow depth of field. I think, with a 105mm f2 were right there.
Hope this works and I hope it's fun! Here's a photo of Espy as an example from our shoot!
3 comments:
That's a very convenient set-up, and with the kind of shooting I do, I might just utilize this.
Great job, I'm sure the shots came out great!
Looks great! I was also impressed with seeing how much effort went into the picture before the shutter was ever released. Thanks for sharing.
THis is how fast i feel i move in my head when im on a shoot. Im trying really hard to slow down and enjoy the photography part. Thanks for the post Kirk
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