I’m asked what I did before SizzlPix!. Over a 15-year run I wrote and produced 1,000 tv commercials, employing techniques I’d copied from Hollywood and employed for over a decade of commercial and personal photography.
Here they are: 1. Try to never shoot from eye level. The view from below (lie on the ground if necessary), or above (we had a platform built atop a truck for location shoots) is almost always more interesting and less routine.
2. Wherever possible, arrange lighting and in sunlight position your subject, so that the main light is behind or to the side. Fill the front with flash or reflectors, at a level about 50%, so the subject has that pleasing natural halo from keylighting, preferably behind and above.
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