Temperament, schmemperament. :-)
Walt, learning how to light is all about two things for me: light
shaping, and personal growth. When I started 5 years ago I told
everyone I was a "natural light shooter". I eventually figured out
that this is really a code-phrase for "I'm afraid I'll suck at flash."
Everything you learn about photography has good effects on everything
else you do in photography, and possibly elsewhere besides.
If I was starting out with lighting experiments today I'd go straight
into LED lighting. I have a battery-powered 160-LED array and I can
tell you it's an awesome tool, and cheap; $50. Because it's continuous
you can see the effects immediately: the highlights and where the
shadows fall.
"Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original
dimensions."
--Oliver Wendell Holmes
On "Cab": when I first saw that in Lightroom it immediately reminded
me of Botticelli's Venus, so I figured I had a keeper.
Thanks, Walt!
On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 1:37 AM, Walt Gilbert <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I actually love studio photography, but I love /other people/ doing it. I
> just don't think I have the temperament for it. I also love Paul Stenquist's
> car work, but I'll be damned if I'd want to try and make a living at it. I'm
> pretty sure I'd be awful at it.
>
> That said, I like all the shots, but I really love the "Call me a cab!"
> shot -- particularly the pose. Classically feminine.
>
> -- Walt
>
>
> On 3/19/2012 3:25 PM, Bruce Walker wrote:
>>
>> For the studio fans (all four of you): two more finished images in my
>> Postmodern Pinups project:
>> http://goo.gl/udU3k
>>
>> I had hoped to get to more of last week's Posing Workshop shoot, but
>> learning how to do decent background extraction using a copy of the
>> blue channel in Ps took up all my spare weekend time.
>>
>> By the way, I had an unbelievable Duh! moment. With a flash of utter
>> brilliance, I rotated my second monitor, an older Dell LCD, to
>> portrait position and was able to edit these portrait orientation
>> images so as to completely cover the now vertical screen, increasing
>> their area roughly 400%! I have had this monitor now for about 6 years
>> and this is the very first fecking time I've thought to do that. Live
>> and -- eventually -- learn. It's like buying a brand new 30" monitor,
>> for portraits anyway.
>>
>> Kit:
>> K20D, DA* 50-135/2.8, ISO 100.
>> 4 Bowens 400WS strobes, 2 barn-doored on backdrop; 2 in 42" gridded
>> softboxes.
>> Lr, Ps.
>>
>> Thanks to Bob W for the "Postmodern" moniker.
>>
>> --
>> -bmw
>>
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