Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/02/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Eric- the soft box is good for the kids and casual shots, but your crop0028 of the young lady shows what might be called 'broad lighting' (no puns intended). The face is at an angle, and the main portion of the light is falling on the broad side of the face. This tend to make the face look fuller, where as if you moved the light to the other side (or more easily- have the model turn to her left) the light would hit the more narrow side (it used to be called 'short' lighting) and makes a more flattering portrait. With the ladies, using what is called 'butterfly' lighting works really well, but you need two light, equidistant from either side of the camera- it's called butterfly lighting because the shadow under the subject's nose should be even on both side, and in sort of a butterfly shape. Crop0003 is really nice of the kids- it looks like you are getting the idea! BTW- don't you think the 90 make a nice portrai lens? I always though it was almost the ideal- though in close quarters, I use a Rollei 3.5/75mm TLR with a Rolleikin ( Ooo! I heard a shudder out there!) But then I can't afford a 75 Summilux yet! DP - ----- Original Message ----- From: "eric" <leica_korenman@hotmail.com> To: "LUG" <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sent: Monday, February 23, 2004 8:34 PM Subject: [Leica] help critique my lighting > hello all- > > After years of available light shooting I couldn't resist the curiosity - I > bought an alien-bees monolight and softbox. > I shot my first roll of very simple portraits using the softbox as my > main-light and a slaved vivitar 283 to light a white backdrop. > > contact sheet: http://www.faneuil.net/softbox_test.jpg > > Nice, but I wasn't thrilled with the results - they look a bit flat to me. > Any critique (with lighting technique in mind) would be appreciated. > The pictures are not supposed to be enthralling - my family relented to my > modeling requests as there was nothing to do on a drizzly Sunday. > BTW - my wife shot the pic of me. > > technical: all pics taken with R7, 90 elmarit, TCN (rated at 320) > > thanks > Eric > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html