I wish I had Bruce's chops, so I hope this isn't taken the wrong way, but I have a great dislike of lighting that appears artificial. This is not to say that I condemn artificial lighting.
It is just that the eye can just tell when something does not look natural (due to direction(s) or mixings of color temperature or out of balance exposure of the ambient or flash). This particular image reminds me of something that was briefly popular in professional photography studios in the 80's where the studio camera would be mounted behind a beam splitter (transmissive 45 degree mirror) while a slide projector was positionsed below and pointing straight up at the underside of the 45 degree mirror. The result was that the slide image was projected upon a screen made up of small round glass beads. The screen image could not be viewed from an angle but would reflect the image straight back at the camera. Thus you could light your subject without washing out the projected background on the screen. It was possible to photograph seniors in front of beaches in Tahiti, or Vermont barn settings or Iowa covered bridges. But because the studio lighting of the subject did not match the color temperature of the light of the projected scene (or the direction of that light) it looked so obviously "fake". If things weren't aligned properly or you worked at the wrong distance from the subject, you would also get the subject's shadow projected on the screen and they would be outlined by a dark line, separating them from the background which added even more to the artificiality. That particular technology did not last long, thank goodness. I may be a little weird in this regard, I don't know... but I even hate flash in macro shots when it is painfully obvious that flash was used. I think it is much harder to do it well (to diffuse it properly, or to gel it so it is the right color) and I'm not going to claim to have mastered any of this stuff yet myself... it is just that as a consumer of images I'm very picky about the light. (You may not want to watch a movie with me for similar reasons). :) On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 9:12 AM, Zos Xavius <[email protected]> wrote: > Nice lighting. Good work! > > On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 10:09 AM, Bruce Walker <[email protected]> wrote: >> Thanks, Dan! >> >> On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 9:15 AM, Daniel J. Matyola <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> Nice use of the light, and a lovely, pensive expression. >>> >>> Dan Matyola >>> http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola >>> >>> >>> On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 7:17 PM, Bruce Walker <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>>> I took this portrait fully 30 minutes after sunset, looking west out >>>> onto Lake Ontario, with Port Credit's shoreline to the right (you can >>>> see faint lights from the jetty). >>>> >>>> http://flic.kr/p/fuZEPV >>>> >>>> I dragged the shutter just at the limit of usefulness: 1/20th >>>> handheld. I did not amp these colours in Lr or Ps; they are as taken. >>>> I did gel the flashes; that affected the blues. >>>> >>>> K20D, DA* 50-135/2.8 @ 80mm/f3.2, 1/20th sec, ISO 400; fully manual, >>>> including focus! >>>> 30" umbrella softbox with AF540FGZ, on monopod right. Bare AF540FGZ, >>>> handheld left. >>>> Lr + Ps. >>>> >>>> Comments welcome. >>>> >>>> -- >>>> -bmw >>>> >>>> -- >>>> 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. >>> >>> -- >>> 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. >> >> >> >> -- >> -bmw >> >> -- >> 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. > > -- > 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. -- "Photography is a Bastard left by Science on the Doorstep of Art" - Peter Galassi -- 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.
