A couple of weeks after our previous shoot I arranged with Melissa to shoot some head shots and images that she could use to promote herself as she is a professional actress.

She came out to my studio and we set up a relatively simple lighting arrangement consisting of an octobox positioned above the camera into strip boxes aimed to light the background. The position of the main light is referred to a butterfly lighting due to the shadow cast under the nose.

Melissa was position on a stool which made everything simple in terms of maintain consistent lighting. In order to give her different options she had come with a variety of outfits.

As with most studio shoots I shot tethered into the computer which meant that at the end of the shoot Melissa was able to select the images that she liked. Tethering is a great tool as it lets you see the images much larger than on the back of the camera, the model can see them as they are being shot to make changes to poses. Plus it really speeds up the process of editing. At the end of the session I get the model to pick their favourites so that I don’t waste time editing images that they will not like.