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Photography Techniques Utilized for Photoshoot

For the portrait photographs I will be taking, I will be utilizing Martin Schoellersportrait photography technique. He has utilized this technique many times and

mostly on high proile actors and well known people.

Here are se!eral e"amples o his work, as you can see they are bright close ups

and are !ery highly detailed. #he lightness and the playul acial e"pressions can

be linked to the genre o comedy, these are connotations that I would want the

audiences o my magazine and posters I want to see.

I also wanted to do, portraits because there are se!eral people in my ilm, and I

want them to ha!e their own poster or my ilm. $n e"ample o this is the Harry

%otter ranchise, each character ha!e their own poster slightly showing what

type o personality they ha!e.

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Here you can see all the main characters o the ilm ha!e their own !ariation o

the poster and on the bottom right the title o the ilm can be located.

#o do Martin Schoellers technique, here is an image how all the lighting and the

camera is set up.

Camera:Mamiya RZ67 with 140mm macro lens and Kodak portra VC 400 ASA ilm! set on

a tripod " eet #ack$ Shot at 1%60! "$6! &S' 400$

Lighting:(he two key li)hts are 4*#+l# Kino ,los positioned - eet rom .enry/s ace! +st

to camera let and ri)ht$ At +ll power! they #arely p+ll a "$6$ A small sot #o at "$6 is

#oomed directly o2er his head$ A 73 relector with )rid at sits on a small c*stand #ehind

.enry! aimed at the #ack)ro+nd$ (he )rid creates the white )low +st a#o2e his sho+lders! #+t

allows the top o the #ack)ro+nd to )o sli)htly )rey$

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#his is the result o that set up as you can see it is !ery detailed and allows the

audience to read the person personality in some sort o way.

&ranted that the photography room, that will be pro!ided or us might not ha!e

all the equipment that was utilized I am pretty sure, I can still produce work o

the same standard.

I also wanted to create a group photo shoot or my magazine ront co!er, or this

I want to do it in a similar style amous ilms do their group photoshoot or

e"ample'

From this you can see, each character in the ilm has a dierent acial e"pression

or posture to show their personality, I want to achie!e this in my photoshoot as

well.

#hrough researching I ound out that to achie!e a high quality group photo you

need to try to arrange your group members so that i you were to draw

imaginary lines between their heads, you(d end up with little triangles

e!erywhere. $n e"ample o this is the image below'

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$nother way to approach the triangles technique is to simply switch your group

members around until you don(t ha!e two people o the same height standing

ne"t to one another, like this'

)ou can also try using perspecti!e to your ad!antage** +ust mo!e certain

members backward or orward rom your camera position so that they appear

shorter or taller.