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Shooting an individual portrait

Shooting an individual portrait

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Shooting an individual portrait

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- Our prototype flyer does not have any need for headshots or individual shots of people, but Bats is wanting some new headshots for their website, and this is the kind of thing that you might find yourself needing to do a lot, shooting people for corporate presentations and annual reports, and that kind of thing. So we're gonna go through real quickly, how to get a good headshot. So Cece's here, and we need to get a shot of her. Now, the first thing you might think is, oh, if you're gonna shoot a portrait of someone, you've gotta have lights and flashes, and all that kind of stuff. And that is one approach, that is the very difficult approach, so we're not gonna go near that. We're gonna do something that can yield fantastic results, and that is pretty easy to pull off, and that is, to find a nice window in your office or your theater, wherever it is you are. We're really lucky here, because this window has diffusion material on it, so it creates this wonderful soft light. If she was…

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