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From: "Bob W" <[email protected]>
To: "'Pentax-Discuss Mail List'" <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, December 09, 2009 3:18 PM
Subject: RE: Portraits of Power
Thanks for posting, Frits. You know, I'm going to go back
and "listen" to all the commentary by Platon. Of the few I
did listen to just now, I felt I really learned a lot, and I
thought it might be fun to draw on this project to create a
kind of homework assignment for myself---that is, set up a
simple light scheme, get some friends and family to queue up,
then call them one by one for portraits and shoot under a
very short time frame. Could be interesting. Maybe over
Christmas break. Thanks again, Frits. Cheers, Christine
Richard Avedon had a similar look to many of his portraits, and his
technique is interesting and may be worth emulating, although it is
certainly not a short time frame. Perhaps along with Irving Penn's use of
natural light.
Penn would set up a backdrop outdoors, with only natural lighting and
perhaps a reflector, and place his subjects in front of that.
I read about a photographer who drove around the country in a van (can't
remember the name of the photog at this minute). When he wanted to do a
portrait, he'd park his van in some northern light, bring out the backdrop,
set up his kit, and snap away. That sounds like a lot of fun--if I was more
confident in my skills.
In the mean time, however, I do want to try what I described above the
above; I think it would be good practice--I think sometimes I over worry
and over "think" when I make attempts at more "formalish" portraits. I
definitely need to bring more play and spontinaity to this kind of
photographic situation.
Cheers, Christine
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