Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/11/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]langhanslanghans@compwrx.com (langhans)10/31/025:12 PM >http://168.212.133.189/wwwpages/senior/ I'm not a fan of "soft focus" especially to the degree illustrated in your examples, and espcially for the young whose skin usually doesn't require such "tricks". I believe that portrait photography depends a great deal on lighting and I find your lighting too flat and boring to bring our the beauty of the human head (Although every rule needs breaking and I have an extremely flatly lit portrait on my own portrait web page which I like especially for it's flatness and how that works with other elements in the photo). I also find the backgrounds to not add anything much to the portraits. Where am I coming from in my own approach to portraiture? <http://www.imagist.com/photo/pg7_portrait.html> You'll notice in the first and main example on this page that the hair really blew out in the scan. I need to get back at that one or find a scanner with the ability to capture the contrast range of the film. - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html