{"id":25944,"date":"2015-01-21T19:19:43","date_gmt":"2015-01-21T23:19:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/?p=25944"},"modified":"2017-08-18T19:20:41","modified_gmt":"2017-08-18T23:20:41","slug":"modern-contemporary-business-headshots-studio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/modern-contemporary-business-headshots-studio\/","title":{"rendered":"Business headshots in the studio with a contemporary, modern look"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/images\/headshots\/matt\/Matt-Sweetwood-2014_097-edit.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"601\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>Business headshots in the studio with a contemporary, modern look<\/h2>\n<p>When Matt Sweetwood, the owner of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.uniquephoto.com\" target=\"_blank\">the largest Camera Store in New Jersey<\/a>, discussed doing new\u00a0new\u00a0business headshots\u00a0for him, we agreed that a more contemporary look suited him. There&#8217;s a large dynamic personality at work here &#8230; and using an 85mm f\/1.4 lens wide open would place attention on his eyes and his expression. Nothing else is really in focus aside from his eyes, and this really makes for a compelling portrait that grabs your attention.<\/p>\n<p>We shot various sequences, with the background brighter and darker. In\u00a0the end we settled on a sequence of images with the lighting shown in the top photograph &#8211; it has an airy brightness to it, and looks modern. With the colors muted like that, it draws attention to his expression even more. No bright colors to distract.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/images\/headshots\/matt\/Matt-Sweetwood-2014_086.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"601\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Lighting setup &amp; camera gear used<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>1\/200 @ f\/1.4 @ 40 ISO<\/li>\n<li>Nikon D810<\/li>\n<li>Nikon 85mm f\/1.4<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These and any other photo gear can be ordered from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uniquephoto.com\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Unique Photo<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The low ISO settings that the D810 offers, helped in maintaining that wide aperture with studio lighting.<\/p>\n<p>The lighting setup used\u00a0Profoto D1 studio lights, with the main light\u00a0modified by a\u00a0Profoto 5&#8242; Octabox<br \/>\nClick through on the image for the exact description of the lighting setup.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/studio-photography-working-with-a-large-octa-softbox\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/images\/lighting\/diagrams\/LightingSetup-headshots.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"614\" height=\"650\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Related articles<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/headshot-photography-what-makes-great-headshot\/\">What makes for good head shots?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/photo-gear-setup-corporate-headshots\/\">Photo gear &amp; logistics: corporate headshots<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/studio-portraits-with-85mm-f1-4-lens\/\">85mm f\/1.4 portraits in the studio<\/a><\/li>\n<li>more articles on <a href=\"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/category\/headshot-photography\/\">headshot photography<\/a><\/li>\n<li>more info about:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/headshot-photographer-nj\/\">NJ business headshot photographer<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Business headshots in the studio with a contemporary, modern look When Matt Sweetwood, the owner of\u00a0the largest Camera Store in New Jersey, discussed doing new\u00a0new\u00a0business headshots\u00a0for him, we agreed that a more contemporary look suited him. There&#8217;s a large dynamic personality at work here &#8230; and using an 85mm f\/1.4 lens wide open would place&nbsp;<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/modern-contemporary-business-headshots-studio\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Read more inside&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29280,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[209,31,33,136],"tags":[766,891,600],"yst_prominent_words":[3236,1158,3260,3251,3242,1310,3280,3268,3276,3255,1483,1140,1656,3272,1120,1142,3115,1144,1665,1156],"class_list":{"0":"post-25944","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headshot-photography","8":"category-photo-shoot","9":"category-portraits","10":"category-studio-photography","11":"tag-corporate-headshots","12":"tag-headshot-photography","13":"tag-nj-headshot-photographer","14":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25944"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25944"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38772,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25944\/revisions\/38772"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25944"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=25944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}