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Black Polo - part 2 of 1 2

by Trevor Yerbury Published 01/02/2017

One thing we both enjoy is the look on delegates' faces when we show how we work and hopefully how simple it all really can be.

For the female portraits of our model we used the two strip 100s together and rotated the tops together so you are effectively shooting through the triangular gap you have made in the lights.

In this set-up you will also get 'cat’s eyes' in your model. Once we had demonstrated that set-up we simply removed one of the lights and made the black and white portrait of our model with the reflector to camera-right. However, our model was only with us for around 15 minutes, at our request, because making portraits of models is pretty simple – the challenge is to photograph members of the audience and it's always interesting to watch people’s reactions when we mention this! So the three male portraits illustrated were delegates in the room who were ‘persuaded’ to be our models and we simply used the single 100 strip-box and reflector to create strong masculine portraits using our trademark black polo.

Our objective was to remove some of the ‘mystery’ surrounding portraiture and demonstrate that simplicity can always produce a good portrait without all the technical details that seem to surround this genre. However, at the end of the day it's all about practice.

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