Since I photographed Dr.Chiasson's staff last year (see HERE), they added couple new employees and their portraits on website needed an update. It was important to use same lighting, background and editing to match new portraits with the old ones.
Whenever
I photograph I try to get everything right in camera to reduce my
postproduction time. It's a very good practice which requires a lot of
patience. However there are other times (like in case of this shoot) when heavy retouching is simply unavoidable.
For example, little girl in pink dress ran across the frame to her mother (wearing blue shirt). Everyone had a great laugh and it released some of natural tension which everyone gets when put in front of a camera. It resulted in friendly and inviting portrait.
I decided to post couple of before/after images from this shoot just to show what kinds of distractions needed to be taken care of.
Hope you enjoy!
P.S. As always, my apologies for spelling mistakes. English is not my first language.
Labels: Business Portrait, Commercial, Portrait
Is there a reason why you did not ask the group to move forward (towards the camera) in order to give you the freedom of blurring the background?
I didn't need it to be blurred more. It sure wouldn't make shooting a lot easier. It would significantly made focusing harder and I would risk having people in the front or back row out of focus. I should note that it was shot on medium format back at f8, which in 35mm format is equivalent to about f5-5.6. I set the camera on a tripod, focus and worry about important things - people's expressions.
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