I finally did the Crunch headshots. I went for a blown out white background as this makes it easier for the web designers to cut out the pictures for web use.
The setup was straightforward:
2 x Canon 550EX speedlites set to about 1/16 aimed at a white wall
Canon 430EX through a brolly to camera left, high up to light each subject
The shots were of the three main honchos that run Crunch and the partner companies. One guy particularly didn't like having his picture taken, but I guess that's always gonna happen. He was co-operative tho, so that's good.
In hindsight, I realised I made a tiny mistake. You should normally get the background blown out first by setting the power on the strobes and the exposure on the camera and then only tweak the key light power to get the right exposure on the subject. What did I go and do? I got the background blown out OK, but then adjusted the aperture on camera to get the subject lit OK. Doh! This resulted in the background not being so blown out so I had to tweak that in post.
Ho hum, lesson learned.
The dapper chap in question is Darren Fell, founder of Crunch and nice guy to boot.
Onwards and upwards!
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