- The plan was to use as much of the available light as fill but adding the light in the back really brings down the amount of available light coming in to the shot even if we are shooting at 1/60th but this could be do to the diminishing daylight at pre-light. So i will make adjustments accordingly at the shoot.
-I chose to use a 35mm as it gave me a wide enough view of the scene but didn't want it to distort the subject like a 24mm would.
-f5.6 the subject will be sharp but the background not being that far will just start to blur enough. There is nothing of real interest behind the subject so even if it's a touch soft it will kind of hide the ugliness of the place. Plus you can still make out that it's a place of business so the message will be clear.
-We originaly went with a 1/60th because we wanted as much of the ambient to fill the space as possible but because if the back light we got less ambient. because the back light replaced the ambient. on the day of the shoot we may need to change the the shutter speed depending on the ambient
-yes we have enough available light as we are kind of making our available light with strobes
-yes we have enough strobes
-no we do not have too much light
-the only technical problem that i see is fixing the perspective in post
-we will have a grey card at the shoot, and since not much available light is going to affect the shoot we do not need to gel our strobes but will have them handy just incase
-1 Profoto kit (two lights), 2 black light stands, 1 umbrella, 5 extension cords, 5 sand bags, 1 computer, 1 tripod, 1 light reader, 1 grey card and 2 green gels.
Final polaroid
Other alternatives we tried
The available light in this area would make it perfect for a portrait b ut as far as a environment business portrait it just didn't speak enough
I liked what was going on in the ceiling but again plant got in the way
