Gel might have helped. In lighting like this, flash is pretty much a must. Otherwise the subject would be backlit something fierce.
On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 10:43 AM, Darren Addy <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. -- 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.
