The staff at Timbers Community Church needed some updated photos for their new website, so we booked a time to get some nice portrait shots of the staff and a few group shots as well. We wanted to have a “Timbers” theme to the photos, so I opted for some trees and sky in the background as opposed to having a traditional plain colour backdrop.
Since we were recording video at my home studio after the portrait shots, we decided to get the portrait shots in my front yard using my neighbours trees as a nice background. For lighting, I ended up using an umbrella and flash in very close to the subject so that I could get each person lit very well while also getting a nice exposure on the background.