On Jun 23, 2014, at 1:55 PM, Bruce Walker <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> She is obviously a very slender woman, and the lighting in that photo really >> accentuates it. I think that the combination of the cheek and the hand >> shadows, where most people don’t get such hard shadows, makes her look as if >> she has no body fat whatsoever. > > Yes, applying directional light at that angle really highlights > surface contours, and even folks with very little cheekbone definition > will get some. Once I placed it, the light stayed put and she was > moving around a lot into different poses so the amount and direction > of contouring changed significantly from shot to shot. But as a > professional she knows just where the light is and avoids poses that > would result in dark eye sockets that would have made her look > _really_ emaciated, which I appreciated. Directing her was a breeze. Forgive me if I missed where you described it, but it looks like you have a strip light camera left, almost parallel with her? -- 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.
