Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/06/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Thanks for explaining. I hope you're better now. Ph. Op 19-jun-06, om 23:07 heeft Scott McLoughlin het volgende geschreven: > Philippe Orlent wrote: This one is great, too: > > http://www.adrenaline.com/snaps/slides/WhiteScott2.html > > Thanks for showing, > Philippe > --------------------- > Thanks for looking. Philippe, I don't usually do too much > digital manipulation, so I have mixed feelings about this one. > Here's the story behind this pic. > > I was sick as a dog with the earlier stages of Chronic > Fatige (CFS, CFIDS, "ME" in many parts of the world). I > was mostly housebound, so I bought some lights to keep taking > pics indoors. > > After successfully figuring out lighting ratios and what not for a > black background, I thought I'd try out Avedon style white > background pics. So I spanked a white sheet with light (you > can do it from in front or behind the sheet). This was a failed > shot, with too much power on the white sheet, so it created quite > a halo around the subject. > > (I'm into using sheets instead of roll paper, because I don't think > I'll be carting wide rolls of paper in my little C-class Mercedes, > and the (still unexecuted) plan is to drive around and visit relatives > and take their pics, all in the same style). > > Anyway, I was futzing around, and I up'ed the contrast on the > image. My g'friend still liked it, and, well, the pic is the result. > Rest of the fam liked it too. > > Without sounding too philosophical, prior to getting sick, > I was quite the "man on the go." I think the fam liked this > photo as a representation of the existential crisis of having > most of one's life mysteriously and suddenly truncated (career, > finances, social life, health, mobility, even personality or > "persona") by a rare and incurable disease. There's another > "mistaken" shot from the same sitting/experiment that I > somewhat humorously labeled my "official" CFS portrait. > > Again, thanks! > > Scott > >> >> >> Op 19-jun-06, om 03:17 heeft Scott McLoughlin het volgende >> geschreven: >> >>> Ooo, oh - I have a couple of SP's too :-) >>> >>> http://www.adrenaline.com/snaps/Scott/slides/CircleMirror.html >>> http://www.adrenaline.com/snaps/Scott/slides/Beatonesqe_1.html >>> http://www.adrenaline.com/snaps/Scott/slides/Pissed.html >>> >>> No Leica shots on hand, but..... >>> >>> Scott >>> >>> >>> > Another SP for the LUG collection. Summer portraits guys? >>> > >>> > http://gallery.leica-users.org/album293/ >>> SelfPortraitwithGlassesMurano200605_001 >>> > >>> > Leica M3 5cm Sumitar f5.6 1/30th KOdak BW 400CN >>> > >>> > Peter Dzwig >>> > >>> > >>> -- >>> Pics @ http://www.adrenaline.com/snaps >>> Leica M6TTL, Bessa R, Nikon FM3a, Nikon D70, Rollei AFM35 >>> (Jihad Sigint NSA FBI Patriot Act) >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > -- > Pics @ http://www.adrenaline.com/snaps > Leica M6TTL, Bessa R, Nikon FM3a, Nikon D70, Rollei AFM35 > (Jihad Sigint NSA FBI Patriot Act) > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >