Shutter Moment

So after weeks of nagging from David, we’ve finally managed to gather all the staff in Design Vetica, my interactive agency, together to do a photoshoot. Mainly, everyone just wanted to update their headshot for the team page. (above photo, from left to right, Kevin Lee, Johnathan Gee, Alex Gondek, David Kim)

Or as I describe it. From left to right: Fashion designer, beach boy, russian hacker, and um, normal person?

Somehow I managed the carry all my gears to our office. The plan is to shoot against a white wall so we don’t have a background once we place the images on our site. Well, good luck to that plan. The shoot started off in the wrong direction (panic!). There was a open window with no blinds to cover the harsh sun light. The flare bounced off the wooden floor and cast a nasty green color in Kevin’s glasses. I placed a 43″ diffuser and turned it into a giant softbox: problem solved. However, I found that one flash couldn’t light the scene, so I had to drag my shutter a bit. At the end, I think I was shooting at around 100mm 1/50 at f/5.6.

Since our office is actually an shared office, we constantly have colleagues going by. One of the companies actually booked an afternoon session right on the spot since we look pretty professional. Stay tuned for the edits of that shoot.