Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/04/15

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Portrait lighting
From: jpphoto@hci.net (John S Payne)
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1998 00:57:34 -0400 (EDT)

>LUGs,
>
>In a moment of softheadedness, I agreed today to do on short notice
>(i.e. tomorrow) headshots of five people being honored for their
>volunteer work.  The camera equipment is no problem - Leica R and
>90mm lens. The film will be color neg.
>
>As for lighting, I'm undecided: bringing in a small Speedo
>brownline pack and 2 heads with umbrellas or shooting a single Metz
>shoemount into an umbrella.  The latter is consistent with my general
>Keep It Short & Simple philosophy, but the former may give better
>results as far as filling in shadows etc.
>
>Comments? Thoughts? Suggestions?
>
>Roy
>   Roy C. Zartarian
>   http://www.connix.com/~royzart
>   "A prophet is not without honor except in his
>    own land and among his own people"
>
>Written with the assistance of a labrador retriever whose chin is on the
>key board. All typos are his fault.

Hello,
If time permits , set up the speedos and the results will improve greatly.
Good luck,
John Payne