Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/04/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 10:27 PM 4/15/98 +0000, you wrote: >As for lighting, I'm undecided: bringing in a small Speedo >brownline pack and 2 heads with umbrellas or shooting a single Metz >shoemount into an umbrella. The latter is consistent with my general >Keep It Short & Simple philosophy, but the former may give better >results as far as filling in shadows etc. When I do headshots, I take them into open shade, turn them to have some nice shadows on the face, and shoot. Or put them by a window and use 3/4 light and shoot wide open. Gorgeous light. ========== Eric Welch St. Joseph, MO http://www.ponyexpress.net/~ewelch The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist, but the impulse it gives him (and her) to keep on looking. - -Brooks Atkinson, 1951