It somehow seems to reflect/support the feeling you get from her
expression. An emptyness or loneliness or
reflection on something intense?
Then to me it would make more sense to have the blank space on the left of
her (her R H side) as if she was looking into it!
Kenneth Waller
http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/kennethwaller
----- Original Message -----
From: "Larry Colen" <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: PESO, while setting up the lights
On Sat, Aug 03, 2013 at 09:14:31PM -0400, Gerrit Visser wrote:
I prefer the original 'crop'. It somehow seems to reflect/support the
feeling you get from her expression. An emptyness or loneliness or
reflection on something intense?
Thank you. That was exactly my goal with the original composition.
Gerrit
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Subject: Re: PESO, while setting up the lights
On Sat, Aug 03, 2013 at 04:08:48PM -0400, Kenneth Waller wrote:
>
> It is so obviously a portrait, I don't understand why it was shot in
landscape mode. The blank space on the RHSide is distracting.
Actually it was shot to check the exposure, primarily of the background.
I cropped it that way because I happen to like portraits with a lot of
negative space, and to cut out the backdrop stands and other detritus
that
was in the original shot.
But, I was willing to try a more conventional crop, do you like this one
better?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/9430436915/in/set-72157634890993590/
>
> -----Original Message-----
> >From: Larry Colen <lrc@red4est.
> >Subject: PESO, while setting up the lights
> >
> >One of my favorite photos from the shoot a few nights ago came while
> >I was just setting up the lights and setting the exposure. Sophia
> >was just sitting on her stool, biding her time while I futzed with
> >the camera and took test shots to set the exposure.
> >The backdrop was white seamless paper, with red gelled strobes
> >flashing at the back of it. There was a key light camera right, and a
> >fill camera left.
> >
> >There is something about this shot that I really like even though
> >there was no thought as to posing or anything beyond "is the lighting
> >correct" when I took it.
> >
> >It took a fair bit of processing to bring the color out of the
> >background in lightroom. If I brought the exposure up properly for
> >Sophia, then the red totally washed out.
> >
> >http://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/9427045630/in/set-7215763489099
> >3590
> >
> >Comments, as always are welcome. Particularly for things I could do
> >to improve the processing.
> >
> >ISO 80, f/8, 1/80 second
> >
> >Exposure +1.65, highlights -51, shadows +40, blacks -11 adjustment
> >brush exposure -2.49 saturation 60 with fading in around her and at
> >the edges.
> >
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>
>
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