Fatima's LinkedIn portrait (and then some)

Fatima, an ex-collegue of mine from Philips, liked to have a LinkedIn portrait, taken at her house. Of course, being ex-collegues, we spent the first hour chatting, before I started making preparations for the photo shoot in the living room. This all went surprisingly quickly so I had some time left for some family portraits.

How it's done...
Most of it is not different than my other photoshoots, although I am experimenting a bit with shallow depth of field, which is even visible in the face. The eyes, or maybe better: the closest eye is always sharp, and therfore most of the face, but not all of the head. This gives it a nice touch, to my opinion at least.
Because most of the backgrounds in the room were quite cluttered, or not very usable for a formal portrait, I narrowed the frame quite a lot with a long lens. With the combination of a very shallow depth of field the background is hardly recognizable anymore. Generally I do prefer to show more of the backround as shown in the photos of mr. Lenssen (link) which I made recently.

Also I played with some gels on the secondary flash. The red wall becomes more intense when spot-lit with a full CTO (color temperature orange) gel, over the heads of the children.