Used to be, if you were shooting an "executive portrait" -- and I use quotation marks because they are not just for businessmen, anymore -- you'd set your subject right in front of your favorite marbled grey or blue backdrop, set your lights to the 45's and bob's your uncle. Well, that's so 1985!Now folks like something a little more environmental; a natural background of their workplace, or a wall of trophies, or a gaggle of happy employees beaming on proudly. This gentleman is an educator, a principal, an author, a leader, a speaker, and a motivator. No marbled canvas was going to suffice here. We shot in an office, a library, and on a playground.
The point is: really consider your subject. If they know what they want, great. If not, find out a bit about them and make some appropriate suggestions. Or crazy, wildly creative ones if you think they are game. But leave the marbled canvas to the chain school pix guys!
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