Small Office Space Portrait
Working on location at a clients office can often be a daunting task, especially if the space to work in is small. In this business portrait photography class, Karl shares a number of useful tips to help you get great results.
In this class, Karl explains the common problems one may face when doing a shoot such as this. He covers what to look out for, how to overcome common issues, how to pose your subject and how to light them.
In this class:
- Portrait photography: Environmental business portraits
- How to take business portraits using studio lights
- How to photograph business portraits on location
- Useful equipment for portrait photography
- Posing ideas for business portraits
- Camera settings for environmental business portrait photography
Questions? Please post them in the comments section below.
Comments
Hi Karl is that 416 diffusion or just tracing paper?
Hi, that’s 216 but tracing paper would work for this.
Hi, do you always focus on the closest eye with f1.8? Thanks.
Hi, the closest one would be the better choice with such shallow DOF but it doesn’t always happen that was because sometimes you make a mistake or the AF goes to the other eye.
In this scenario, what were the settings on the camera you were using? ie full on 1.2 aperture or something higher?
Hi, I’d have to check the exif data on the file but don’t worry about the exact aperture settings, simply assess the situation and decide what sort of DOF do I need. Then make the decision as to which aperture will provide that and then work everything else to match, it’s likely in this case it was 1.4 or 1.8 to keep the DOF shallow but the model in a region of sharpness, I generally find 1.2 too shallow and you’d often only have one eye of the subject sharp.
Hi Karl, thanks so much for the video. I just wanted to flag that it could be really useful to do another similar video but with a full team. This may help you explain how to work in tighter space constraints as well as effectively lighting multiple subjects who could be different distances from the camera and could be facing different directions. I know I would personally find that very useful . Thanks again
Hi Damien, when you say full team do you mean a group shot? If so I wouldn’t attempt to photograph a group of more than 3 people in a space like this and I would chose another location.