Thank you very much, Malcolm! As with anything, I find that the more I work with light the better I understand it. I also find that when I study how to best use ambient light it helps me to see how best to work with studio strobes and modifiers, and vice-versa.
It's a trade-off: I have simplified my kit to two primes (a normal and a "portrait") so I can concentrate on lighting and posing (and model interaction) and not fussing with the camera. And I have restricted my subject matter a lot too, I suppose. Anyway, my point is that considering how important light is to great photographs, I think everyone should spend more time focussing on perfecting it. It's not so very difficult, you know. :) On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 7:59 AM, Malcolm Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > Bruce Walker wrote: > >> Molly Fassbender has a fascination with self-portraits, so I brought my >> little collection of vintage cameras along to our shoot last Thursday. >> >> https://www.flickr.com/photos/bruce_m_walker/22923705145/lightbox/ >> >> 645Z, DFA645 90mm f:2.8 Macro, f:11, 1/125th sec, 100 ISO, handheld. >> >> One light: Buff 86" extreme silver PLM boomed directly overhead. >> >> Model: Molly Fassbender >> Hair & makeup: Judi Willrich > > There's much to like here. It's striking image, an unusual but well thought > out composition, and as usual, the lighting is spot on. > > I looked at a local gallery display recently of portrait photography by a > large number of different amateurs, and you could instantly spot those who > had and understanding of the subtle and suitable lighting. A look at the few > I have taken over the years, reveals I'm in the 'have not got the > understanding' category. > > Malcolm > > > -- > 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.
