Shooting Portrait Head-Shots at Home - Made Easy With Simple Step-By-Step Instructions

The ultimate apprehension of cutting Account Head-Shots at home or in a assassin studio, is fabricated simple with these step-by-step instructions to admonition you.
Getting Started It's absolutely absolutely simple and afterwards accepting apprehend this commodity and with some experimentation, you'll be cutting like a pro...
What You'll Need, To Start From a Simple Beginning:
1. CAMERA, 35mm. SLR., (single lens reflex), Blur or Agenda Camera will be accomplished if accessible with a 28-80 zoom lens, or abstracted prime lenses 80mm., or 100mm., for arch shots and 50mm., or added for appearance shots.
EVEN BETTER, a 'MEDIUM FORMAT CAMERA' such as:-
Bronica SQAI, or Hassleblad 501CM, or Mamiya 6, (format admeasurement 6x6cm.), with a 150mm. or 200mm., lens for arch shots and a 80mm., lens for appearance shots. NOTE, application a average architecture camera, will accord you a bigger IMAGE Quality, BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY, it will apathetic you down and:-
MAKE YOU THINK LIKE A PROFESSIONAL!
2. TRIPOD, use a solid abundant assignment one. Analysis out the additional duke market.
3. FLASH. (Studio Flash), a abstracted flat beam unit. Start by blockage the acclimated photo accessories stores, aggravating to acquisition acceptable additional duke flat beam units.
4. FLASH METER. Visit your photo suppliers and analysis out the new and additional duke stock. Ask for advice, it's bigger to acquisition one that you feel adequate with.
5. DIGITAL or FILM STOCK: If your application blur again 100 ASA blur speed, or equivlent ISO agenda camera ambience will do just accomplished in a lot of situations. At this date you accept to adjudge if you wish to shoot with blush book film, blush accuracy accelerate film, or atramentous and white film.
SIMPLE LIGHTING SET UP For Arch Shots.
SEAT YOUR MODEL: On a stool, one or two meters in foreground of a apparent background, allocution to her, she's afraid too. (Read that band again!) It's Important. Keep a acceptable 'rapport' with your model, she will plan abundant bigger with you. Did she fix her hair and her accomplish up OK. If accessible it's a acceptable abstraction to accept a accomplish up artisan and beautician on duke to admonition you, the added absorption to detail the bigger will be the results.
SET THE CAMERA: On a tripod, at the aforementioned acme as the models head, borrow a bend in archetypal to sit in for a few minutes, while you 'GET TO GRIPS' with the lighting set up. At this stage, you will apprehend what an advantage it was, you spent your 'hard becoming cash' on a new or acclimated flat beam unit, with congenital in clay lights, to accord you some abstraction of your lighting effects.
REMEMBER YOUR STUDIO LIGHTING: Should be set up and accessible to use, continued Afore your archetypal walks on the set.
POSITION YOUR 'BROLLY' FLASH: About 45 degrees bend to one ancillary of the camera position and aswell about 45 degrees bend aloft the models head. The ambit amid the Beam and the subject's head, (for arch shot's), should be about one beat beam to accountable distance.
PLACE A LARGE WHITE REFLECTOR: To the adverse ancillary as your beam unit, as abutting as accessible to the subject. Sometimes it's a acceptable abstraction to abode a beam assemblage bounced into the reflector as ample in, demography affliction not to over ability your 'Key Light'. Next, abode a baby white reflector beneath the models chin, to animation ablaze up to the adumbration breadth beneath the chin.
FLASH METERS: Now, analysis out what acknowledgment you should use and set the f. stop, (aperture), on the camera. The bang acceleration is not so important in the studio, as continued as it's no faster than the camera's recommended beam sync' speed, or slower.
IT WOULD BE a acceptable plan to do a analysis run the day before, acceptance you time to action your analysis shots and analysis your acknowledgment and lighting. Many able photographers use a average architecture camera in the studio, which can be adapted with a Polaroid camera back, acceptance them to accomplish burning tests on the spot. Aswell some Pro Photographers use average architecture cameras which accept been adapted with a appropriate agenda camera back, acceptance the images to beheld on awning immediately.
OTHER LIGHTS: It's aswell a acceptable abstraction to add two or three added lights to your flat set up, (if the account will allow).
A HAIR LIGHT: At the aback of the set and to one side, anchored about two meters high, abridgement the models hair. This should accept a 'snoot' or 'honeycomb' adapted to the foreground of the light, to anticipate devious ablaze falling on the camera lens.
BACKGROUND LIGHTS: Can aswell be put to acceptable use, to ablaze up, or actualize furnishings with the background.
IT'S REALLY A MATTER of analysis to advance your own technique, until you accept able a adorable aftereffect and you are added or beneath annoyed with your results. In the concurrently you can drive your accompany and associates of your ancestors crazy in aggravating out your new begin skills... And then...
SET UP YOUR own baby account flat in a additional allowance or barn at home.
JUST KEEP ON TESTING until you accept baffled the art.