Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/07/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Cheers Geoff http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman On 20 July 2014 09:22, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote: > Of course in the old days when it came time to put down your cute little > Leica and start playing with a big boy photo toy you'd get yourselves a > Rollei 2.8f TLR and or a Hasselblad and you'd be shooting squares though. > You'd bee shooting loose to then crop into rectangles. Horizontal or > vertical as the situation required or your mood moved you later. > If it was me I'd not been shooting my 70 on my S and be working with > unstopped images. *YEP, doing just that and I do like 3:2 very much. That's what my M does too and all of its ancestors ;-)* > I'd shoot a bit loose. Crop later. I do that right now > with everything I shoot which is rectangles on my D700. > > > On 7/17/14 10:20 AM, "Geoff Hopkinson" <hopsternew at gmail.com> wrote: > > > Thanks Alan. The texture in the background is a polished concrete wall > > (normally my grunge wall) and used deliberately despite the beauty dish > > lighting) and as you know the double catchlights are from the clamshell > > lighting. Easy to retouch out if desired of course. I don't think that > > would reflect the light used though (but then you can't rely on counting > > catchlights in beauty/fashion of course). I can understand why both > aspects > > might bother an experience studio classicalist photographer of course. > > Thank you for your look and comment. ;-) > > How about here with more focussed but feathered light? > > (gridded beauty dish inserted into the end of an overhead horizontal > > feathered strip light) > > http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman/image/156344992 > > http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman/image/156419984 > > http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman/image/156419983 > > > > > > Cheers > > Geoff > > http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman > > > > > > On 17 July 2014 23:38, Alan Magayne-Roshak <amr3 at uwm.edu> wrote: > > > >> Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2014 17:37:24 +1000 > >> From: Geoff Hopkinson <hopsternew at gmail.com> > >> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > >> Subject: [Leica] IMG: PortraitS has an S in it > >> Message-ID: > >> < > >> CAE3QcF4pf-UV6hni0wwdV8ZcYQgX7UMNX95jYjaRNP9wdFj4wA at mail.gmail.com> > >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > >> > >> http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman/image/156614330 > >> http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman/image/156614331 > >> http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman/image/156614332 > >> > >> Cheers > >> Geoff > >> http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman > >> > >> > ============================================================================= > >> ====== > >> I like the first one best, but I wish there wasn't that texture in the > >> background on all three. > >> > >> In the third, it still bothers me that there are two catchlights in the > >> eyes. Makes them look runny. > >> > >> Alan > >> > >> Alan Magayne-Roshak, Senior Photographer > >> University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Photo Services > >> (Retired) > >> UPAA Photographer of the Year 1978 > >> UPAA Master of the Profession 2014 > >> amr3 at uwm.edu > >> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/> > >> > >> "All the technique in the world doesn't compensate > >> for an inability to notice. " - Elliott Erwitt > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Leica Users Group. > >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Leica Users Group. > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > > -- > Mark William Rabiner > Photographer > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >