Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/09/29

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Subject: [Leica] Re: Studio Flash Help
From: s.dimitrov at charter.net (Slobodan Dimitrov)
Date: Wed Sep 29 11:00:23 2004

Did somebody mention Fred Archer? My, my, my!
How refreshing to see some knowledge of a past application of lighting tech.
S.



> From: Alan Magayne-Roshak <amr3@alpha1.csd.uwm.edu>
> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
> Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 08:25:19 -0500
> To: lug@leica-users.org
> Subject: [Leica] Re: Studio Flash Help
> 
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>> Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004
>> From: Mark Rabiner <mark@rabinergroup.com>
> 
>> Use one less light. You are using two. You only need one.
>> In real life there is one sun in the sky. One moon at night.
>> One light in your eye. One shadow below.
>> 
>> Having a light on each side of the camera as you are doing is how you 
>> light
>> a map.
>> It's not the way you light people.
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> I agree you shouldn't use copy lighting for people, but don't agree that
> one light is best. I can't stand having parts of the picture blend
> together. Hurrell, Archer and many others used multiple lights to get
> separation of planes. I think using multiple light sources skillfully is a
> real test of skill.  Any extra catchlights in the eyes can be taken out of
> the finished picture.
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>> Use one main light.
>> Just like God.
>> ......
>> That's two light sources again as far as I am concerned.
>> And not natural.
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> What does it matter if it's natural or not if the image looks good?  Here
> is some text from Lotte H. Eisner's book "The Haunted Screen":
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> "The double lighting is definitely a violation - a violation of nature, if
> you like.  But if it is a violation of nature, I add immediately that it is
> superior to nature.  I say that this is a master stroke, and proves that
> with genius art is not entirely subject to the necessities imposed by
> nature but has laws of its own." -- Goethe, during a discussion on a Rubens
> landscape in which two sources of light can be seen: Eckermann"s
> Conversations, 1827.
> 
> Alan
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> Alan Magayne-Roshak
> Senior Photographer
> Visual Imaging
> Univ. of Wis.- Milwaukee
> Information & Media Technologies
> amr3@uwm.edu
> (414) 229-4282/6525
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Replies: Reply from dpost at triad.rr.com (Dan Post) ([Leica] Re: Studio Flash Help)
Reply from mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner) ([Leica] Re: Studio Flash Help)
In reply to: Message from amr3 at alpha1.csd.uwm.edu (Alan Magayne-Roshak) ([Leica] Re: Studio Flash Help)