Urban Alley Photo Shoot

27th June 2008

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I had the exciting opportunity to do a set of photos with the senior leadership for Quest this year. We wanted to go with more of an urban, "grunge" look with a bit of edge. We picked a location on the ALERT campus that looks somewhat rough, set up studio lighting and went at it. Here is a diagram of the lighting setup:

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For the group shot, the main light was camera right, about 8 feet, at 1/1 power. I actually pointed the umbrella up so we got light spill on the faces and the lighting rapidly tapered off by the feet. The fill light was camera light, a little behind the subjects, and up really high so I got lighting on everyone.

The individual portraits had the main light at camera right, just above eye level, and the fill light came from behind, almost like a rim light. I should have also added a reflector to pop a little more fill in.

I really like the individual portraits: