North light would be south light for you. It just refers to an illuminated sky that doesn't include the sun. It's like having a big softbox in the sky. But if it fill the sky completely, it's omnidirectional, so the light can be very flat. Paul
On Dec 13, 2010, at 1:25 AM, Tanya Love wrote: > > 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. -- 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.
