Corporate Headshot Photoshoot with Chia Yaozhong

This was a simple corporate shoot for Yaozhong. He was looking forward to getting a close-up photograph that he could use for his company website and new passport.

The biggest challenge was that he wanted to keep his spectacle on and thus I had to deal with the reflection of my lighting on the reflective materials, including the frame and glass.

I initially set up three lighting to light up his face and the backdrop. As we reviewed the photographs, he preferred having more shadows for higher contrast.

We tried out a few looks with no smile, and both smiling with and without showing teeth. We played with angles. Eventually, we were able to agree on the final photographs.

However, since the requirement for the passport photograph was to use a white background, we had to work on another photograph with the white background lighted up so that it wouldn't appear grey instead. We also had to capture his face directly facing the camera.

It was a fun day.