Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/08/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]"Just wondered if anyone out there has done any "serious portrait work" using only window light? In colour or B&W, and what film/lens combination they used? I mean portraits that challenge the "portrait studio " of strobes/hotlights ? ted" While I doubt this will be very helpful except by way of example, I have done project-specific, non-commercial portraits that eschew studio portrait conventions using only an M6, 50mm, Tri-X at 400 and T-Max 3200 at 3200. In one of my favorite examples using the latter, my subject, a young woman in her twenties, was illuminated by late afternoon sun through floor to ceiling panel glass in a modern corporate box building in New York City. Whether the result is in fact truly ethereal, as I believe, is, of course, a matter of opinion, I suppose. I also like a series of portraits I did with Tri-X of a four-year old and her mother, before a large, almost all white abstract painting, facing daylight coming through full length curtains. ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com