PS. I am a natural light only shooter most of the time by choice. I never liked flash a great deal.
On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 10:49 AM, Zos Xavius <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. 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