Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/08/26

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Subject: [Leica] Flat lighting and perverts
From: KCassidy at asc.upenn.edu (Kyle Cassidy)
Date: Thu Aug 26 10:10:09 2004

>Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 16:08:50 +0100
>From: "Beddoe, Neil" <nbeddoe@lehman.com>
>Subject: RE: [Leica] Kyle posts provocative new work in a futile
>       attempt to stop the innane riefenstahl nonsense!

>The lighting is very flat on the indoor scenes Kyle.  Haven't you got a 
>few flashguns you could have put at threatening angles?  I assume that the 
>furniture isn't normally used under normal domestic lighting. Maybe it is, 
>my experience in these matters is somewhat limited.

Thanks for the input neil, -- I admit, I was probably too far under the
influence of david graham at the time:

http://www.photoeye.com/Gallery/forms/index.cfm?image=1&id=84480&imagePositi
on=1&Door=2&Portfolio=Portfolio1&Gallery=2

I can also offer this excuse: I would have lit it better if I knew anything
about lighting.

I'm still working on that. Feel free to send me suggestions. Studio lighting
is a thing that still killing me, after all these years.

Oh, and I do have this slightly more dramatically lit one:

http://www.availabledark.com/~ratty/bound/7.jpg

(it seems there are limits everywhere, one of the models said "you are _not_
setting me on fire.")

Kyle

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