Gold colored gels on background and as side kicker lights. (In-frame: Tracie Dang)
This series with Tracie was shot indoors in my studio in Berkeley, CA. For this headshot series, the goal was to achieve an artistic and almost cinematic color “pop” to the background for a vibrant headshot series.
HOW TO SHOOT & CREATE COLORFUL CINEMATIC HEADSHOTS
If you’re like me, and more of a visual learner, I created a complete “How To Create Colorful Cinematic Headshots” video on my YouTube channel to show how to create these cinematic headshots. This is inexpensive and a bit of DIY, but yields a really beautiful result. Feel free to click on the YouTube video below, for the how video demonstration:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mM0L24zmOfE
Normally, for different background styles or even for my colored gel portraits, I would swap out the background with a different seamless background color for different looks. However, for this shoot, the unique background was left as-is, and I actually used an unconventional crinkled material as the backdrop. The only difference between shots was changing the colored gels directed into both the background and the side kicker lights on the model. (See the sides of her face/hair for a twist on the colored gels applied in-studio.)
This is was a five light setup, where everything was left as-is, only changing the colored gels for different looks. As you can see, just swiping out different colored gels dramatically changed the appearance of each headshot, offering versatility and unique color combos on-the-fly. This unique lighting setup provides for vivid headshot that transcend a typical in-studio headshot.
If you’d like to book an in-sutdio headshot using this unique lighting setup, just use the contact me area for more information.
Purple colored gels on background and as side kicker lights. (In-frame: Tracie Dang)
Red & Clear colored gels on background, along with red side kicker lights. (In-frame: Tracie Dang)
Gold colored gels on background and as side kicker lights. (In-frame: Tracie Dang)
Teal blue colored gels on the background, with gold and purple side kicker lights. (In-frame: Tracie Dang)
Red and Blue colored gels on background, along with red side kicker lights. (In-frame: Tracie Dang)
Purple & teal colored gels on background, along with purple and gold side kicker lights. (In-frame: Tracie Dang)
Purple colored gels on background and as side kicker lights. (In-frame: Tracie Dang)
Gold colored gels on background and as side kicker lights. (In-frame: Tracie Dang)
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Interested in a photoshoot? Just use the contact page here to email me with any photo session ideas you may have. If you are interested in portraits or headshots, I shoot professional portraits and professional headshots both outdoors with natural light and/or strobes, or in my San Francisco Bay Area-based photo studio with a wide variety of backdrops and lighting options for many types of projects. Whether you need fashion photography, portrait photography, yoga or fitness photography, headshot photography, an online dating profile photographer, beauty headshot photography, artistic extreme colored gel hypercolor portraits, product photography, modeling digitals for agencies, or anything in-between, I offer various packages for many budgets. I look forward to hearing from you. Let’s shoot!
