Yup, I concur there Paul. I probably should have mentioned some other stuff that is a "given" to me as I am so used to shooting this way, and just "looking" for the light in my usual way. Like I said, I am so NOT technical. When looking at these and mentioning "late afternoon light" I failed to mention my assumption that the light source was either hidden by surrounding buildings and/or already below the horizon to achieve that texture that we speak of. When you refer to "north light" that makes no sense to me as I am in a different hemisphere, so not really sure what direction we are talking, iykwim?
Anyways, I think Walt has the general gist of it all now! Tan.x. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of paul stenquist Sent: Monday, 13 December 2010 1:30 PM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: OT: Photographer Monique On Dec 12, 2010, at 9:59 PM, Tanya Love wrote: > > Hey Paul, > > I totally agree, but wanted to give Walt specific instructions that he > could easily replicate. For the examples that he showed, they were > most definitely shot in "available" or "natural" light in late > afternoon, and in open shade (ie. The shadow cast by the buildings > that she has her subjects against). There has been no light > modification in these shots except for the angle of the subject to > achieve side/backlighting etc, which is more what I was trying to emphasise in my explanation. Possibly. But open shade light is flat if the source is a broad expanse of north light. Some of these have much more texture than would result from that kind of light. I wouldn't be surprised if she;s reflecting sky light on some of these -- or perhaps she was using only a small patch of sky. It's always hard to be sure without seeing the setup. But I just wanted to make the point that the camera doesn't see what the photographer sees. That's key to learning to work with light. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
