Photographing friends at home
August 17th, 2008 — 11:58pm
Stella invited some friends over on Saturday to watch the Olympic games and have a potluck dinner. I set up a small studio to create portraits for fun. I used a large 8×4 ft foam board “book end” with a large Photoflex softbox and a white reflecting umbrella as fill. The board ended up being too small for families, but I didn’t feeel like hanging seamless paper and deal with that for just fun portraits. Overall the images are cute, spontaneous for the most part. I have attached one here below, Alan - I loved his pose and decided to give it a modern look - you can see the rest of them here.
A portrait of Alan
The post-processing for this image was done using a special setting of the Portraiture Photoshop plug-in, and then adding a vignette. I also did a bit of desaturation to add a more interesting and contemporary look.