Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/08/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Light is light, weather it comes from strobes or windows. It's only a matter of volume and control, which I feel gives you the quality of the light. I shoot with a lot of strobe, but use Soft Boxes (elinchrom octa bank 76" across) that duplicates the effect of window light. When I work on location the first thing I look for is a window and a way to control the light. Look at the work of HBC and you will see window lighting used at it's best. So find a window and have at it. Cheers Wilber Peter Stamos wrote: > "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