Photography & Lighting setups
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This was a test shot before taking studio portraits for a consulting company in Sweden. Having recently bought a Profoto AcuteB 600R I tried out a studio setup with four flashes. Usually, I use a reflector as fill, but having another flash head to work with, I wanted to see the difference in light and how it could be used to more flexibly lighten the shadows in my portraits in a better way.
This photo was one of around 50 I shot for a client in Sweden last year. They needed good business portraits of their employees for their web site and printed marketing material, and they needed it to be done in their office.
I brought three Profoto Compact flashes, some stands and reflectors to set up a small studio on-location in their cafeteria. All portraits were shot on white background and the fake background you can see above was added later in Photoshop. We had an image bank with around 20 different background that we used.
One assignment I had 2009 was to take portraits of the jury members of the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award (ALMA), the world’s largest prize for children’s and young adult literature. The room I had to my disposal was a small conference room full of books (of course). Other than the bookshelf, it had one really useful piece of furniture, a light light grey, almost white, plastic table.
