Two sides of a coin. Two sides of a state line. Two sides of one shoot.
As a photographer you’ve sometimes gotta do the photojournalism and sometimes you’ve gotta shoot those menial portraits.
Funny part about it: portraits pay the bills to be able to go do photojournalism, sometimes.
Not unusual I’m sure.
So, I just figured I show you how I did this one. I used the natural soft ambient light underneath the dugout, a little fill, and – because I had to do two individual shots that looked substantially different (one a “yearbook” portrait and one for the online stats) but I wanted to get them cranked through quickly – I set it up in such a way the subject walked 10ft between the two, I stood still, using the flash at the same power, nothing but the subject moved.
I cranked them out – a whole baseball team of something like 40 players, coaches, etc. – in about 20-25min.
Here’s the diagram:
Here’s the outcome facing left…
…and facing right.
Stay tuned,
-Noah D.
