Quick corporate headshot C&C?

mpauliempaulie Registered Users Posts: 303 Major grins
edited June 14, 2009 in People
So my boss got an email today that our home office needed a headshot of him for a newsletter they were sending out Monday and I just happen to have my camera in the car. We had to do it today because he is going away tomorrow, so I was stuck with what he was wearing and he probably needed a hair cut. This is in his office under the florescent lights with some auto adjustments in Lightroom.

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  • dogwooddogwood Registered Users Posts: 2,572 Major grins
    edited June 12, 2009
    It's kind of flat, to be honest. I think you would have been better off using window light and a make shift reflector (some white paper taped to a piece of cardboard?). Just my opinion.
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  • D'BuggsD'Buggs Registered Users Posts: 958 Major grins
    edited June 12, 2009
    That's one heck of a demand from the Co.... Hey Charlie, we need a photo of you for tomorrows paper - I think I woulda put on clown glasses and a ladies wig. headscratch.gif


    Surely they could have given the guy a couple weeks notice (?). Nice of you to step up and help him out in a created bind.
  • mpauliempaulie Registered Users Posts: 303 Major grins
    edited June 12, 2009
    dogwood wrote:
    It's kind of flat, to be honest. I think you would have been better off using window light and a make shift reflector (some white paper taped to a piece of cardboard?). Just my opinion.

    I guess so, did it in a hurry and sun was blasting through his window. I actually closed the blinds because there so much glare ON HIM from the light through the window. Under better circumstances bouncing that light would have been better.
  • mpauliempaulie Registered Users Posts: 303 Major grins
    edited June 12, 2009
    D'Buggs wrote:
    That's one heck of a demand from the Co.... Hey Charlie, we need a photo of you for tomorrows paper - I think I woulda put on clown glasses and a ladies wig. headscratch.gif


    Surely they could have given the guy a couple weeks notice (?). Nice of you to step up and help him out in a created bind.


    Yeah, they're pretty nuts and don't ever do that. Most of the headshots that go out are bad cell phone pics, it's really horrendous and I didn't want his picture to look as crappy as the stuff that's gone out before.
  • bdcolenbdcolen Registered Users Posts: 3,804 Major grins
    edited June 12, 2009
    mpaulie wrote:
    So my boss got an email today that our home office needed a headshot of him for a newsletter they were sending out Monday and I just happen to have my camera in the car. We had to do it today because he is going away tomorrow, so I was stuck with what he was wearing and he probably needed a hair cut. This is in his office under the florescent lights with some auto adjustments in Lightroom.



    John_Headshot_small.jpg
    I think this looks a bit better - color adjustment and a bit of a contrast goose. I started to give him a 'hair cut,' but my PS skills don't run that way.

    B. D.

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  • mpauliempaulie Registered Users Posts: 303 Major grins
    edited June 12, 2009
    Thanks, that processing looks better, I gave it a shot... toned down the saturation of the background and added contrast.

    John_headshot_small2.jpg
  • D'BuggsD'Buggs Registered Users Posts: 958 Major grins
    edited June 12, 2009
    I like version 2 better....
  • bdcolenbdcolen Registered Users Posts: 3,804 Major grins
    edited June 12, 2009
    D'Buggs wrote:
    I like version 2 better....
    So do I. ;-)
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  • ChatKatChatKat Registered Users Posts: 1,357 Major grins
    edited June 12, 2009
    Eyes
    His eyes are flat...no catchlights or sparkle in them...
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  • momwacmomwac Registered Users Posts: 65 Big grins
    edited June 14, 2009
    ChatKat wrote:
    His eyes are flat...no catchlights or sparkle in them...
    They're there, just not very prominent. A little dodging would bring them right up. Sorry, would do it and post, but just brought ribs out of the oven. :eat
  • HackboneHackbone Registered Users Posts: 4,027 Major grins
    edited June 14, 2009
    Does this help any?
    Charles
    www.cameraone.biz
  • HackboneHackbone Registered Users Posts: 4,027 Major grins
    edited June 14, 2009
    Sorry uploaded the wong one.
    Charles
    www.cameraone.biz
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