From the course: On-the-Spot Business Headshots
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Camera settings for upgraded indoor headshots
From the course: On-the-Spot Business Headshots
Camera settings for upgraded indoor headshots
- So some of you may be wondering what my camera's settings are for this specific scenario, and I actually have a little bit of something funny. All three of my indoor shoots have been the exact same three settings on my camera. So I'd had an aperture of 3.5, my shutter speed was 1/60 of a second, and my ISO was 1000. There was a reason why I had a little bit of a longer shutter speed for this. And that's because I was incorporating in a constant light. I wanted to make sure that this light and its output had enough time to white out the background in my photograph because otherwise it would have looked like a dingy gray background. So allowing that light to shine on for a little bit of a longer period of time is going to help just whiten out that background and make it look really nice and crisp. The last thing that I wanted to mention is similar to my medium-grade indoor headshot where I used just a regular camera strobe and some PocketWizards, I used a Profoto Air remote to trigger…
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