It's likely north light (or south light south of the equator) from good sized windows (at least the ones indoors). Look in the eyes, unless they've been retouched, they'll tell you everything. Then look at the shadows, then the reflections on the skin. They all point to large, diffuse light sources.
Traveling around for 3 years, he likely didn't have a softbox on him, but used the excellent light available to him. On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 2:03 AM, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: > I ran across this very nice set of photos: > http://9gag.com/gag/azb103j > > (Don't read the comments though, unless you enjoy examples of how stupid > people can be) > > The photographers website is: > http://www.beforethey.com/ > > I really like the lighting effect in a lot of th eportraits. It shows > a lot of depth and contrast, but isn't harsh. How does one achieve that > effect? Is it a large soft box close to center with much softer diffuse > fill from the sides? > > > -- > 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. -- David Parsons Photography http://www.davidparsonsphoto.com Aloha Photographer Photoblog http://alohaphotog.blogspot.com/ -- 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.
