Dallas Headshots — my Unfair Advantage
This is my “secret weapon” that gives me a frankly, unfair advantage, when it comes to commercial photography in Dallas, such as executive headshots. As of this post, it will no longer be a secret.
I’m not going to beat around the bush: its this umbrella. This one, specifiic umbrella. I stumbled on it in this out-of-the-way used camera equipment shop. It is vintage, how vintage I have no idea — 60’s or 70’s ?
It has this wonderful PEARL quality to it. It is not the clinitcal and stark white umbrella or soft box, as is common today. Nor is it the shiny silver photo umbrella or soft box. It is a slightly off-qhite fabric that has tiny glittery bits to it. This pearl quality is a BIT WARMER than those stark white umbrellas, but it is not yellow, it is… pinkish but not pink, more like a “platinum pink” if there is such a thing. Where there is such a thing, and it is in this one specific photo umbrella!
Now in this simple cell phone photo of the umbrella that you’re seeing, the modeling lamp is on, giving it a tungsten look. But even in the tungsten modeling lamp, the yellow as a slight pinkish quality to it. Never fear, that modeling lamp is overpowered when the flash goes off, giving it this WARMING effect that is not yellow (like all other ways to warm up human skin in photos tend to go too yellow). Even on this inexpensive, but more than powerful enough Alien Bee flash unit, it makes for a distincly beautiful skin tone on men and women or all races alike.
In this photo, like many corporate photoshoots, I’m in a medium-sized conference room. It take my headshots with the overhead lights off. The modeling lamp is so I can seen just enough to compose the photo and focus. The end result is a subtly “warmed” but not too yellow quality that works with pale or tanned or ethnic skin of all kinds.
If you’re not a photo nerd or an artistic perfectionist, you might not appreciate this extra edge that naturally beautifies photos, even rugged male model photos. And that’s OK. But if you want my “unfair advantage” applied to YOUR headshot or portrait in Dallas, TX. Simply call the studio at 877–858–0071 to schedule your photography booking. www.PortraitPhotographerDallas.com
