On Sat, May 18, 2013 at 03:08:55PM -0400, Bruce Walker wrote: > Walt, this is where some understanding and experience with light pays > off. Light coming from the same direction as your lens shows no > surface shadows. Angled or oblique light shows increasing amount of > surface detail. Light coming from 90 degrees to your lens will reveal > a lot of surface detail by casting lots of shadow. Worst of all (for > skin) is hard light -- a point source like the sun -- coming from > right angles.
A classic example of this is your picture of David and Glenn. Note how the hard side lighting brings out every feature of their skin. This is why I hate to say something is good or bad for photography, I much prefer to say things like side lighting will show every detail in the skin, something most women dislike. Or, a 77mm lens will show less of the background than a 50mm lens, so that you need to shoot from further back. -- Larry Colen [email protected] http://red4est.com/lrc -- 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.
