Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/07/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]bdcolen noted: >>> Hey, Phong - I MUCH prefer the grab shot - It shows the model as a > personality; it's imaginative. <<< Hi Phong, I'm with B. D. on this also, as it has a warm fun feeling to it. Besides the lighting on the set portrait makes her appear lifeless and stereotypical "what it should look like by numbers!" When you light a portrait, light it how "you feel" and not necessarily how the instructor and numbers tell you. However I wish to clarify this by saying, one should learn what the instructor demonstrates or whatever you learn from books, as this is how we all began... basically lighting a portrait as every other portrait is lit by "numbers." Once you've go that under your belt that's when in some cases you throw it all out and do what your creative eye tells you and your gut feeling for the subject. :-) ted Ted Grant Photography Limited www.islandnet.com/~tedgrant - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html