The Fine Art / Corporate Studio Shoot

First things first, after welcoming Natalie and her 6 month old daughter Gracie into the Studio (unfortunately her son Oliver was unable to attend) was to set up my planned lighting. I decided to use a cross lighting effect purely as having these many lights available would enable me to experiment more rather than at different intervals adding more lights if needed!

I decided to use my Canon 50D DSLR camera whilst experimenting with lighting effects as wanted to ensure that I achieved the perfect lighting for my ideal corporate / fine art portrait before introducing using a medium format camera for my final product.

Below are my selected favourite's of my original unedited raw images:

DSLR settings for all the above photographs - ISO 200, F11 @ 1/60

DSLR settings for the two below photographs - ISO 200, F22 @ 1/60

Not being as keen on the background that was being created via the use of all five lights, for my corporate portrait shot I decided to change my lighting set up as shown below, directing the two lights behind Natalie towards the white drop background to create a halo of light effect.

DSLR settings for the three above photographs - ISO 200, F22 @ 1/60

DSLR settings for the two below photographs - ISO 200, F20 @ 1/60

I then wanted to capture a corporate style portrait with the use of high key lighting and to do this I completely changed my lighting set up, disregarding the main front key light and back lights and incorporating 2 large soft box lights at a 45 / 45 degree angle as shown in the diagram photograph below.

I also set both of my lights at the same settings as detailed below

And below are my favourite selected unedited raw photographs all using DSLR with settings at ISO 400, F13 @ 1/250

As Gracie had woken up after a short nap I thought that using this type of lighting would also be effective for my Fine Art Portrait's :-)

As our studio time was approaching the near end I then experimented with the use of continuous fluorescent tube lighting which I positioned to the left hand side of Natalie, photographer's right and below are the unedited raw photographs took on the DSLR ISO 800, F3.5 @ 1/40

As time had flown so quickly I was unable to proceed on using the medium format camera however I plan to again book for more studio time and hopefully all well being that Natalie and her daughter are available on the same day, photograph them then with my idealised lighting from the selection above.