studio Assignment

 Looking in to and how to light my studio business/corporate shot is not that easy I would like to do something a little different   

Some info i found Profoto Magnum as main light

For this hard light portrait we used a Profoto Magnum with a grid as the main light. A Profoto Compact set to the lowest effect placed camera right and a bit above his head aimed towards the center of his face gave hard shadows and enhanced his features. The grid helped as well.

Background light and spill

To make the background completely whiteanother Profoto Compact with a standard reflector was placed low right behind the model and aimed at the white background paper. The distance between the background and the model was about 2 meters, so some of the background light spilled backon his sides, as you can see on his right side of the face.

Hair and rim light

Behind the model, and high up, the last flash head pointed down with a gridded reflector to give some more light to his left side of the head. Without it the portrait would look much flatter, I think. Now it accents his bone structure which makes the head look more three dimensional. And that must be a good thing. The effect of the rim light is more visible on the photos we took not using the background light as strongly, when the background was a darker grey.

Camera and lens

For most portraits in my photo studio I use my Nikon D700 together with a85mm/1.4 lens. It is the best combination of camera and lens I have used so far and it always produces sharp, clean images. Before using a full-frame body the portraits would have to be a bit tighter in my small studio, but now I can at least use it for this kind of half-body shots.

Post production in Lightroom and Photoshop

After my client had picked his favourites I started retouching them, nothing much really apart from the black and white conversion. The background was not completely white at all places, but that was easy to fix. The background light had been placed to have its center right behind the model so the small spots I had to adjust were in the corners.

To get some more contrast I added a layer of Gradient Map using a black to white fill and then changing the blend mode to Soft Light and adjusting the Opacity until the effect was what I wanted. An easy way to give a 

10s Studio Portrait Lighting

Light Source
One of the most important things of a good light source is its size. This determines what type of shadows you are going to have and also affects the type of reflection
Small light sources will produce a hard edged shadow, large light sources will produce a soft edged shadow.
Take as an example the most important light source in our life, the SUN. In a nice bright day with no clouds the sun will act as a small light source. On the other hand when it is a cloudy day the clouds will act as diffuser and the light source will not arrive from a direct single point but will be diffused through the clouds thus becoming a large light source and therefore producing soft edged shadows.Lighting Angles
A person looking at an object sees each point of that object at a slightly different angle. If we sum up all these angles we would have a family of angles. The family of angles is very important thing to master as a photographer because it determines where we can place or where we cannot place our lights.
For this Studio Portrait Assignment, you are going to work with three basic lighting angles: Hatchet/Side Lighting, Rembrandt, and Glamour/Butterfly lighting. Below is an example of a Rembrandt Lighting set-up:Find an example of each in your journal. Explain how the lighting set up is arranged to create this effect.

i would like to do this for my corporate shot 

portrait a little kick.