On Tue, Jan 3, 2012, at 03:52 PM, Collin Brendemuehl wrote: > > > #1 I've been reading through an old book -- Professional Portrait > Lightings by Charles Abel. > 1947. Good stuff. Each portrait has a layout and description of the > lighting types. > Some quartz, some incandescent, some flourescent. Some with snoots and > others with diffusers. > Got me wondering -- has anyone here ever experimented by rotating a set > of lights > around a model or still object to document the various lighting results? > I'm thinking this might be fun one weekend. Constant light, controls, > and > fortunately the simplicity of a DSLR. But maybe some film just to see > how it works in "real" b&w. > > #2 I'm liking good HDR, but really disliking bad/over-done HDR. During > yesterday's Rose Bowl > there was a shot of an old residence in Oregon. But the shot had > brilliant colors all around. > Definitely HDR. It reminds me of today's popular portrait style -- lots > of soft light so that all > of the colors in the subject are clearly seen. > But bad HDR looks like there is a white line surrounding every object. > Ugly. Not realistic. > I'm going through a little learning curve now to see how well it works > in-camera (K-x). > Do any of you use external stand-alone or PS HDR software? > How heavily do you process? > Has anyone stopped doing HDR? Why? > Examples would be great.
I use HDR sometimes but only in the sense of combining two or three bracketed exposures in Photoshop (which is probably better described as Expanded rather than High Dynamic Range). I've looked at dedicated HDR applications such as Photomatix and the freeware Luminance HDR but I really haven't had the time or inspiration to really test them out. Cheers Brian ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Brian Walters Western Sydney Australia http://lyons-ryan.org/southernlight/ -- -- http://www.fastmail.fm - Or how I learned to stop worrying and love email again -- 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.
