Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/09/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Wed, 24 Sep 2014 Geoff Hopkinson <hopsternew at gmail.com>wrote: >This frame was just a play as I was setting up. It intentionally has no >fill and the main light has a modifier (a grid) on it. Ted you are spot on >that the main light is still too high (as shown by the only just caught >catchlights too) .I did make some much more conventional beauty portraits. >The model has been very happy with the rest of the work we did. We shall >see what she thinks of this one ;-) >http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman/image/157521109 > > Cheers > Geoff ================================================================================== Yes, the light is too high, but I like this better than the ones that are so flattened by fill that there is no three-dimensionality. Plus - there's just the single catchlight! :^) 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