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Lynn Tao of Juniper

I love narrow depth of field head shots.  This one was recently taken of Lynn Tao, the CEO and founder of Juniper (http://www.getjuniper.com).   She needed a head shot for some fund raising and we offered to take a couple of shots in our home studio before I gave birth (any day now). Narrow depthContinue reading “Lynn Tao of Juniper”

Photo of the Photobooth Set Up at the Eating Contest

Yesterday, I wrote about the set up of the photobooth at last weekEating Contest. Here you can see the rough set up. The camera is abutted up to the soft box, which itself it right next to a hedge. The shoot-through umbrella is peaking in at the right, it’s angled in wide and doesn’t provideContinue reading “Photo of the Photobooth Set Up at the Eating Contest”

Photobooth At An Eating Contest

Last weekend we attended an eating contest. My husband was invited to this even through the question-and-answer social networking site Quora. I love shooting parties and an eating contest party was sure to have a lot of drama. One thing I like to do at parties is to set up a photobooth off in theContinue reading “Photobooth At An Eating Contest”

Head Shot For Young Professionals

I had a head shot booked Saturday morning with two young, professional twins looking for photos for their workplace websites. I set up the home studio with a simple white backdrop. I wanted to do a four light set up, a key and fill plus two hair lights to give a symmetric feel for anyContinue reading “Head Shot For Young Professionals”

Two Light Set Up

We had a friend come over for a quick shoot. She’d worked as a model when she was young and boy could she nail looks. We used primarily a soft box key light just off center and then a wide angle shoot-through umbrella 4 stops down as a fill light. Probably should have brought thatContinue reading “Two Light Set Up”

Quick Three Light Set Up

I had a neighbor’s toddler over for a quick shoot. I had two strip boxes set up and a hair light shooting down with a shoot-through umbrella. The hair light was 3 stops down from the strip boxes. I used a neutral density filter on an 85mm f/1.4 to drop the f/11 exposure down toContinue reading “Quick Three Light Set Up”