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On location portrait lighting–basic strategies

Photographing city of Grand Terrace council members

Back in May of this year, I photographed the council members of the city of Grand Terrace.

The council chambers for this little city of 12,000 people in San Bernardino county is surprisingly spacious. Setting up in the foyer was a breeze.

Hardest part was navigating the usual double doors in the building with all my equipment loaded on my trolley.

The walls of the foyer was a yellow color or maybe cream.

In any case my first order of business after dragging out my 3 white lightning studio strobes was color temperature.
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