Long time friend and clinical psychologist called me up a week ago and asked if I could do some portraits for his group practice website. Of course I agreed! (He offered to trade for professional services, though he had me at “can you take some portraits…”) So this afternoon we met at his office in Irvine and had a ball!
Lots of large windows in his 5th floor office and boardroom. Most of the lighting was pretty straightforward: a single SB-800 / shoot-thru umbrella combo, and a reflector on the shadow side for fill as needed. SU-800 commander worked great in the all glass environs.
All shot w/Nikon D2x and Nikkor 24-70 f/2.8 lens. For those images with strong window light influence in the image, I set the camera white balance to tungsten to turn the daylight more blue, and gelled the flash with a full cut CTO gel to match the camera WB for normal skin tones (a trick I learned from corporate photographer David Tejada). Bill really liked the contrast of the blue-tinged background with the warm skin tones.
Anyway, a couple proofs from the session…just basic processing in Lightroom at this point…nothing too fancy….yet.
Thanks for looking!
Like 2,3 and 5. Mary