Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/03/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]The day before yesterday I did a magazine assignment: environmental portrait of a theatrical lighting director. I bit intimidating with someone like that looking over your shoulder. And despite years of background shooting with tons of lighting gear everything from special effects to product catalogues, I no longer have all the gear and have been doing things more and more simply, usually traveling now with only a couple small smart strobes. Anyway, in I walk to the University light lab where this gentleman teaches part time (trained at the Shakespeare Theatre in London). Working mostly with what was there, I pull a pole with a couple big lights into the frame, draped some Christmas tree lights I found hanging around on a blackboard that had been draped with black cloth, aimed another bank of theater lights a from the other side to help light up the subject and a great orange ladder also hanging about, then dug out a couple lowell tota lights from my bag, one with umbrella, one lighting the black case of the lights in the frame and goboed off the rest of the set with a cardboard box on one side and a mannequin on the other, then added a lowell spot on his face from the side, and voila, a nifty portrait. And sin of sins, I shot it on a Nikon D1 (on auto color balance) for reproduction in B&W, dropped onto a CD and FedExed it to NYC. Old and new. At least I took the Ms as backup. donal Donal Philby San Diego - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html