Sounds like a nice course. All this reminds me that I have somewhere around my place this book by Grecco "Lighting and the dramatic portrait" that I saw recommended in the strobist blog. I haven't find time to finish reading it, what I did find is that some of the portraits included in the book are in this website: http://digitaljournalist.org/issue0701/grecco.html
Anyway, as you said the most difficult piece of equipment to find is someone willing to pose ;o) Saludos Fernando On 5/15/07, David J Brooks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just thought i'd give a brief out line from last night, for those that > are interested.:-) > > Instructor brought in her light system and her 19 year old daughter, > who as it turns out, does not mind having her picture taken, unlike my > daughter.LOL > > Her system is pretty basic, but does a very good job. Two 500 watt > strob's and stands, a plain Jane rod and stand fore backdrops and > that's it. > Back drops are painted muslin, and canvas, and props were foam > cushions to raise people up to make a nicer, rounder group photos. We > worked on the 3', 6', 6',6' triangle being subject 3' away from > backdrop and the lights 6' away a6' between them. This is her basic > small studio setup. > > We spent an hour or so watching her pose and shoot her daughter, and > showing us various ways to soften light with out a softbox, and use > home made reflectors for shadow reduction in certain cases.She showed > the class how to work the light meter, at least i can do THAT.:-) > > With home made light box, and metering, it only took her a moment to > set the power on the stobs for her working ap of F8. Stob's trigger by > wire and i see now what you need for the hotshoe to do that. > She works with a D70. > > At the end of the night she posed a group of 5 students, some tall and > some short etc, and showed us ways to position them, and also briefly > touched on using a flash and umbrella as studio lighting in a pinch. > I may have to go this route for any pet store shoots, as if they are > all small like the Petvalu my wife works at,. i won't be able to > utilize the 6' method, but the one stobe method sh eshowed us. Either > that or get the stobbracket and just lift the flash off the camera. > > The best part was at the end, she asked to see the horse, pet and kid > pictures i was asked to bring in, and she thought they were all great. > I'm happy.:-) > > Next week, our turn to wreck havoc in the photography world. > > LOL > > Thanks for listening. > > Dave > > > > -- > Equine Photography > www.caughtinmotion.com > http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ > Ontario Canada > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > -- http://www.flickr.com/photos/ferand/ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
