Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/07/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]No beach in that shot. Eric On 7/29/07, Mark Rabiner <mark@rabinergroup.com> wrote: > > > Catching up with PAWs. > >> From a recent vacation. > > I am still obsessed with Avedon light. > > I thought this was getting somewhere. > > > > http://tinyurl.com/3dyuvo > > > > Eric > > > > White unsmiling faces do not an Avedon make. > > Avedon shot in the studio with a medium white umbrella an assistant would > hold on a boom about 6 feet in front of the model as they moved around the > Cyclorama keeping it at the same distance in front of the subject. > His main look is this but of course he shot on location too. > > Outdoors I'm not sure in his later work if he used reflectors or not like > many do know I think maybe he didn't from the shots if seen of his shoots. > > But I've never heard of "Avedon light" and I've read pretty much anything > written in English written about Avedon or by him for 3 or 4 decades. > > I've heard the term "Strand Light" batterered about as in PAUL STRAND as > in > the light before a rainstorm (yellow) which looks like the light in the > beekeeper shot maybe. It was shot on the shady side of a barn with a > seamless tacked to the wall. > > Avedon over exposed slightly and over developed by quite a bit his PLUS X > and had his printers print his faces hot. Making sure they "pop". Such > printing of faces is a very common approach in the past decades and is the > way I print. I don't think the movable boom with an umbrella was his > concoction either. He probably learned it in the merchant marines where he > learned photography and from Brodovitch when he started out. > > What I'm seeing here is an over exposed shot of a boy on a beach. > And just printed or presented way way light. > > What the light was like at the location we'd not know as much information > is > whited out in the post processing. > > Another term for this is "Salon Printing". A bit lighter than Avedon > prints > perhaps. > > > > Mark William Rabiner > Harlem, NY > > rabinergroup.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >