I’m excited to offer a modern approach to corporate
headshots and business portraits that looks amazing and is very convenient for
businesses to upgrade the entire team, including the group photo. The Rocky Mountain College Enactus team
wanted professional portraits and headshots for each member, and a group photo
go along with it. But as any business
knows, assembling the whole team in one place is inconvenient and time
consuming. So I took a modern approach
and made portraits of each individual conveniently scheduled at their own time
and later combined the individual portraits into a group photo. Our theme was
based on the Netflix original show “House of Cards,” to make the group look
serious, professional, and powerful. Each
team member was posed with the group photo in mind so that we could execute the
theme and make a realistic group portrait.
The result is very striking, and very unique for Billings Montana. Thank you to the RMC Enactus team for thinking
outside of the box and entrusting me with your professional portraits.
There are several benefits for businesses that choose to go
with this modern approach to their corporate headshots and professional
portraits that also produces an outstanding group photo. First, the photo simply looks better than
your typical group photo, as each person is lit perfectly and posed privately
without distractions from other group members.
We can even execute a theme, shooting specifically with a group pose in
mind (in this case the theme was based on the Netflix original show “House of
Cards,” to make the group look powerful). Second, the entire team will have
consistent looking portraits, conveying the highest level of professionalism
for your business. Third, it’s much faster, as every person in the group
doesn’t have to pose perfectly at the exact same time, which requires many
takes to get right when everyone is in the same room. Fourth, it’s very easy to update, if more
people are added to the team you don’t have to get everyone together all over
again and you can kill two birds with one stone by having the new team members
upgrade their individual headshots while also updating the group photo. If people leave the team it’s easy to remove them
from the group photo too. For more info
visit www.portraits.paulbellinger.com.
Tips for photographers:
I’ve posted a behind the scenes photo of the lighting setup
for this photo on Instagram @PJBellinger and I discussed other lightingtechniques here. I learned a lot during this shoot, but I feel
like the compositing was pretty straightforward. It’s never going to be easy, but if you know
what you’re going for in the final image you can shoot it accordingly. I knew I wanted a black background, so
shooting on black made it easy to blend each individual portrait together and
into the background. Keeping it dark and
shadowy also made it easier to hide the sloppiness of my mask edges, which
meant I could do the masking quickly. If
the business wanted to be able to put them on any colored background I would
need more precise masks and it would be easier with a white or gray background
where there is more separation between subject and background. But make sure to
get your exposures right, because separating blown highlights from a white
background is impossible guesswork. In that sense there is no substitute for
good photography in the first place.
This isn’t a perfect execution, as of course the posing could always be
better and I was backed into a corner on which poses would work with the
overall photo and the theme, even if I felt there were stronger poses for the
individual. But I am happy with the
execution of the concept from start to finish.
No comments:
Post a Comment