SIDELINE SCHOOL
Portrait: dressed for the show, before it starts
Costume or concert clothes on, plain background, eye level. Before the show, while the hair is still perfect.
How to shoot it
- Step 1
Before the show, not after
Hair and makeup are perfect before the show and gone after it. Shoot the portrait at home or in the lobby, before they go in. A plain wall and window light are all you need.
- Step 2
Leave room for the costume or the instrument
A skirt, a tutu, a cello all need space. Step back until all of it fits, then take one closer for the face. Choose Full Quality when you add it.
- Step 3
Take three: the pose, the stage face, the real grin
One posed the way their class poses, one serious, one laughing. The laughing one is the one you’ll frame.
Pro tip
Shoot the portrait before the show, while the hair is still perfect.
The hero portraitStage face