Black & White shoot with Kenneth
My good buddy and SF coworker Kenneth needed some professional but not lame headshot-type-things to use for business stuff. The rest of our company (up in Seattle) had them all done at once, so I had to match the look they had going so that Kenneth wouldn't stand out like a sore thumb, and we needed to do it in the office with minimal time. Everyone else appears to have been shot on white seamless, with pretty even lighting, so I figured a white wall could do the trick with some level adjustments.Our office is really pretty awesome looking, partly because there are tons of windows and all of the desks are near them. Windows = light, so that's good, but the downside of this is that there isn't even one white wall near and facing a window that we can use for a background. Solution? Use a big whiteboard on wheels as the background.Problem: whiteboards are shiny and that looks laaaaame.Solution: move Kenneth a step and a half in front of the whiteboard and shoot with a bigger aperture, to create some separation.Problem: in that case, the whiteboard isn't quite big enough to serve as a good background.Solution: suck it up and do a little Photoshop work.Turns out, I really like these shots!