On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 7:56 PM, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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?
Cf: http://pdml.net/pipermail/pdml_pdml.net/2014-June/379573.html down where it says, Larry: [...] Strip light yes, but it's about 45 degrees from camera-axis, and angled down on her about 45 degrees too. -- -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.
