Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/05/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Mark- I like the single light approach as it helps 'model' the subject, and is a wonderful tool with which to learn. The young lady with whom I work let me try out my IIIa and Summar on her this weekend while we had a lull in business! I haven't tried Ted's senior photographer approach with her, because she is such a sweet person, and about my daughter's age, but she is pretty and looks good in a window with a northerly light! I put a scan on my website- no new page yet, just this scan: http://members.xoom.com./DWPOST/suzanne1.jpg Dan Cheers - -----Original Message----- From: Mark Rabiner <mrabiner@concentric.net> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Date: Monday, May 24, 1999 1:54 PM Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: studio photography >Roger Beamon wrote: >> >> On 24 May 99, Donal Philby wrote, at least in part: >> >> > Simple is supreme. Study the work of Scuvalo (from Chicago). >> > Virtually everything he does is with one light. He said he had to learn >> > to do it that way because he could only afford one light. You might >> > follow suit and learn one light. Then perhaps add another. And forget >> > all those films. Pick one and don't change for two years. Learn it. >> >> Amen! In my starving student days, I made great use of a window >> and one light. Loved it! It was later that I realized that I'm not >> bright enough to handle more that that. It was a blessing, >> however. Guys and gals, both, look great using the above. >snip > >Just to be a nitty picky wise guy I think you are thinking Screbneski >from Chicago, I think Scuvalo is from the Bronx. Scuvalo learning the >one light technique from Horst P Horst. I also sounds like you've got >Irving Pen as an inspiration with the window. These inspirations have >been my own. >Mark Rabiner