I recently had a session with John and Kathy. They had not had a portrait taken together in about 20 years. Deifinitely time to rectify that!
It gave me an opportunity to use one of my new backgrounds and to work with some gels for color.
The background here is normally brown. Since they both had on clothes with a touch of purple in them I figured a purple accent on the background would fit nicely.
The setup was pretty simple. Just three lights and a flag to keep the light from the main from spilling onto the background and washing it out. Thanks to Kevin Kertz (www.kevinkertz.com) for the great lighting diagram images for Photoshop.
We shot a few and I showed them the images right on the computer as we were taking them. They loved the immediate feedback!
We tried a few different poses until we hit on one they really liked. A discrete inquiry led to some retouching to "turn back the clock" by a few years. They were very pleased. A nice 11x14 of this photo hangs in their living room.
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