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. Like that wonderful Bill Murry movie, "Baby steps to better health...." Scott Philippe Orlent wrote: > 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 >> > > > _______________________________________________ > 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)