Workshop 1

Portraits for Business Professionals

How to shoot portraits for business professionals using a simple setup with on-camera TTL flash

How to trigger a non-TTL accent flash using the main TTL-flash

Sometimes business people ask me to shoot a photo for their website, résumé, or a job application. I prefer to carry as little gear as possible for jobs like this, and so I usually just take my backpack, a reflector, two flashes, and a lightweight tripod with me. This workshop introduces my setup.

Before we continue, I should point out that portraits always look better if they are shot with soft light. It’s easiest to produce soft light with large light sources, which are usually too unwieldy for the type of shoot described here. A collapsible ...

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