From: "Collin Brendemuehl"
#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.
We had to do something like that in my basic lighting course. The
"model" was a 6" styrofoam ball.
Had to light it with with a single hot light & a white card reflector so
that the lit side was just less than pure white & the dark side was just
more than pure black. Then hard edge/soft edge; then 1 stop difference,
2 stop difference, etc.
Repeat with two lights ...
Had to do it with a medium format camera and B&W film (which we also had
to process & print). Digital "polaroids" not permitted (automatic F for
cheating).
This was what we used for our text:
http://www.amazon.com/Light-Science-Introduction-Photographic-Lighting/dp/0240808193
[older edition]
#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 do a little bit of HDR, but I try to make it so no one can tell that
it *is* HDR. My aim is for it to just look like a well exposed image. I
use the tools in Photoshop.
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