Lighting advice please

[ScarySquirrel]

Hello,

I need some advice/tips please.

I am doing a portrait of everyone at my company tomorrow for internal use, and external marketing. I have a white wall, a shoot through umbrella and a 24" softbox. The background doesn't NEED to be completely white, in fact, they like the idea of it being with a grey gradient.

They have some shots already of some staff, but only about 10 people, so they want them done again for everyone, and have asked me to do it.

This is an example of one they already had, and how they would like me to do it. I would like to do something similar, but better obviously

I'm thinking shoot through umbrella high and to one side (45 degree to subject) as main light, producing enough spill to whiten the background a bit.

Then the softbox to the left of the subject at a 90 degree angle for some fill light. Please excuse this awful diagram.

Or would you recommend something different with the setup I have?

Spanks.

 

[Phate]

Other way round mate. I'd have the umbrella lighting the wall and the softbox on the victim.

Just experiment, won't take 2 seconds to swap them over

 

[ScarySquirrel]

I'm going to go with that, someone on TP said the same thing so I'll do that first and see how it goes.

Cheers dude

 

[Phate]

No worries

The softbox will light the employee nicely and the brollie will remove any shadows on the wall behind