Senior portraits6/14/2023 ![]() With the affordable price of LED lighting these days, continuous lighting is now incredibly accessible and has the added benefit of remaining cool for your client as opposed to older lights. The last thing you want is to distress the person you’re hoping to make a smile. While a strobe is more portable and powerful than most affordable continuous lights, they can be quite disorienting for older clients – particularly those with dementia. This is not one of those situations where it’s easier to ask for forgiveness than it is to get permission first! Flash versus continuous lightingĪs a photographer, flash is probably your go-to for artificial lighting when outside the studio, but take a moment to consider continuous lighting. There’s a lot of protection around older residents (and rightfully so), which means the home is not likely to take kindly to a stranger turning up unannounced and taking photos of vulnerable people. However, this is not always possible for less mobile clients.Īlso remember, if you’re doing a shoot in a nursing or retirement home, you’ll possibly need to gain permission from the village manager. ![]() In tight spaces, the best bet is to try and get outside. Others may be in nursing homes with less space than your average bathroom and have everything they own crammed within this space. Unfortunately, many will have downsized and are often in smaller apartments. If you’re lucky, your older client may still be in the old family home with beautiful high ceilings so you can set up and bounce light to your heart’s content. This means that you won’t have access to a full studio setup and will have to improvise based on space. Lighting practicalitiesįor this article, we’re going to assume that you are shooting at the subject’s home – often a requirement when shooting older clients. Lighting older clients utilizes most of the same lighting principles that you apply to younger clients, but there are a few extra tricks that will ensure a stress-free and flattering shoot. In this article, you’ll learn about lighting and posing techniques to enhance your photos of elderly subjects. In part one, we looked at rapport building and the practical aspects of preparing for your shoot. Welcome to part two in our series on photographing older clients.
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