Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/12/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Very simply with a medium white umbrella kept the same distance, about 5 feet I think in front and up from the subject by an assistant holding it up over his head on a boom like a mike boom person in a movie. That's his main look from his main light. He used backdrop lights to keep the backdrop white most the time but would let it go gray sometimes. Never switched to soft boxes like most did when they became lightweight and affordable. Expect maybe he'd use those strip lights for the backdrop. The important thing is he kept his main light close to the subject so they could dance around freely on the backdrop and the assistant would keep up with it. A big mistake photographers make is having their lights too far away. Takes huge amounts of watt seconds and you loose contrast and get flair and looks mediocre and uncontrolled. The far west shots are a backdrop on the side of a barn. I'm not even sure about the reflectors whatever the day was that's what the light was. Cloudy bright would seem to be what would be desired. f11 and be there. I'm interested in doing that some time. Having an outdoor seamless. And shooting there under all kinds of light conditions. I'm sure the variety would be far more than if I had a huge lighting set up indoors and tried to move them around. Which is kind of what I did when I shot retail fashion for a department store 9 to 5. I just kept moving things around to keep busy and not be board and keep things interesting. Mark Rabiner New York, NY 40?47'59.79"N 73?57'32.37"W http://rabinergroup.com/