From the course: On-the-Spot Business Headshots
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Camera and flash settings for indoor headshots using minimal gear
From the course: On-the-Spot Business Headshots
Camera and flash settings for indoor headshots using minimal gear
When you're shooting headshots inside and you're using natural light, it's really important to get as much light through that lens as possible. Even though we did add some additional lights into our setup, it's still important to have your key light or your primary light as bright as possible to make a good shot. So for this specific example, I started with an aperture that was a little bit more wide open, thus giving me a very shallow depth of field. So the aperture that I started with for this was 3.2. So it's less than four, which allows me to have a lot more light, but it's not 1.8 shallow depth of field where you really might not actually get the eyes in focus at all. So 3.2 is a really good place to just start, all right? So then after that, I wanted to add as much light into my frame as possible. And I knew that I wanted to do that through my ISO or film sensitivity number. So the second thing that I modified was my ISO. I took my ISO to 1000 because I know that on the 5D Mark…
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