Headshots for Ashley G. - In Ohio of all places...

Whilst I was in Ohio over Christmas (not my favourite place to be) I shot some headshots for a friend of mine. We drove over to a place called Granville which is a small town close to the campus of Denison. They have nice backgrounds all over the place and I was feeling pretty good about getting some nice environmental headshots to put in my portfolio. However, on the day we chose to shoot, Boxing Day (26th Dec), it was throwing it down with rain. So we only had one location we could use, a small gazebo that was on the ground of an inn that we walked past. I could not get all the shots I wanted but I think we came up with some good images considering what we had to deal with it was also really, really cold!). I tried a couple of different things for the background; under-exposing, over-exposing... I think I liked it more when the backgrounds were under-exposed, it made Ashley pop out from the image a little more.

Here is one of my favourites from the session;



Strobist info;
Canon EOS 40D
24-70 f/2.8 L Lens
f/2.8 @ 1/60
ISO 400
580EX II, mounted on Manfrotto tripod to camera left, aimed at subject.

www.goslingphoto.com.