Impactful Headshots for Actors: OnSet with Daniel Norton
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- čas přidán 15. 06. 2022
- Join Daniel Norton OnSet as he shows you how to create commercial headshots for actors and business profiles. Everyone needs a headshot these days and this rich market is an ideal way for a portrait photographer to establish a steady business.
Creating more impactful headshots will help you build a steady and loyal client base.
Daniel Norton is a Photographer, Creative Director, and Educator with 20+ years in the advertising and editorial markets. Daniel produces and hosts the Podcast Avoice with Daniel Norton as well as the Adorama TV series On-Set Live with Daniel Norton
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THANKS SO MUCH FOR WATCHING! - Jak na to + styl
Always a pleasure to watch you work. Marisa is mesmerizing. Seth, the guy you want working behind you at all times.
Another great demo, Marisa looks great no matter how you shoot her. Great lighting set ups for head shots. Thanks Daniel, Marisa and Seth.
Thanks, Daniel, Marisha & Seth! Always informative.
Great demonstration Daniel, Seth and Marissa! All of the lights worked great it is hard to say that one was better than the other. Regarding shooting a portrait from above instead of from eye level I will dare say that it may be because when one is photographing someone who is heavier and has a double chin that is one way is used to diminish the appearance of it. Thanks for all the great information and content you make Daniel Norton.
I always enjoy your videos. Marissa is the best!! Thanks for sharing!!!
Excellent video mate cheers from Australia
As always the best content and knowledge presented in such a way even an idiot like me feels he can do it… thanks for all you do to enlighten us!
Great video as always! I just have one question. One of the things that you said was what makes these headshots for actors so important are the personalities that the actors can portray. Bearing that in mind, what suggestion would you have for those personalities to come out?
Nice Thanks
Thank you. however, I dont understand 255, RGB would show 100 accross all colours. ???
255 is absolute white.
@Barney Laurence It is 256 increments counting 0 to 255, zero being absolute black in each color range.
Give some consideration to the Sigma 105. I shoot theater including headshots for playbills - mostly amateurs or semi-pro . IMO due to the physical width of the lens, there's no way a subject doesn't look into the glass. It has produced the best closeups for me.
I do not represent Sigma in any way.
The Sigm is a fine lens but requires more working space and it can distort the face more. Some of my best portraits were done with200 mm 2.0 because the distortion was flattering to the subject. The 85 1.8 S is sharper(not that sharpness is needed in portraits) and is sharp corner to corner and has little or no CA unlike the Sigma or Nikon F mount lenses which have more CA and fall off in the corners. I use my Sigma on the D850 but the 85 1.8 S with my Z6 which I use for most of my shooting. 80% of my work is for actors and casting directors plus ballet; the rest is general photography. The studio shooting is stopped down, for example the session in this video is 5.6. Unless shallow DOF is needed for a scene a fast lens is going to be stopped down a lot. More are at f/8 than 1.4 or 1.8.
In actor headshots there is a fine balance between realism and beauty, where the personality comes out, the person looks attractive but instantly can be seen as the person in in person and in the photo. The casting director is not looking for sheer beauty, that is the makeup artist job, but it needs to make the person look as they would be perceived in a casting call in person. "Interesting" is usually more important than glamour. Often actors send me their current photos before a session and too many times when they show up, I do not recognize them. Most of my clients are stage actors wanting to transition so cinema. There are 300 drama theaters in this one city, and thousands of actors. Part of my work is putting on masterclasses for actors who want to do films. Having directors and casting directors work with them one on one in front of the group of 20-60 actors, then doing head and full-length shots, and short scenes in pairs during 2 pages of dialog, that are captured on video. Other master classes include 1-2 minute video business cards where the actor describes themselves and their skills in creative ways to send to casting directors. Often I will divide the stills portion by gender because different lighting formulas are needed for males than females.. When doing private portfolio photos I try to get a wide range of looks, and hints of personality so the actor can send the most appropriate versions based on parts that are being cast. All the actors are very well trained and versatile, it seems because training starts early and included everything from gymnastics to musicianship.. It is very different here where I am than back in my native USA. Almost any of the actors I have dealt with here could adapt to any role from sword fighting to singing roles. Their only problem with moving to film is learning that the audience(camera) is a few feet away instead of playing to the 13th row(live theater) 40 feet away. So it is much easier to train a stage actor to be more subtle than teaching a screen actor to be versatile and reach the first and last row..
How would you shoot a male body builder?
Hello! Let me suggest to search for images by Herb Ritts specifically MAN WITH CHAIN, Herb Ritts many time will photograph against a white stark background with sun light. Hope you find this helpful!
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