Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/11/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]The background may look fake but I think the effect happening here is the little girl is flash filled and that's where the catch lights are coming from in her eyes. The flash also creates a weird looking light balance background and foreground as well. The only person who can tell you whether it's a fake background is the photographer, Eric. So what say you Eric, real or fake? ;-) ted Ted Grant Photography Limited www.islandnet.com/~tedgrant - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nathan Wajsman" <wajsman@webshuttle.ch> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2001 10:13 AM Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: Pumpkin Picture... > The girl is cute, but I second Eric's doubts about the background. > > Nathan > > Eric wrote: > > > Marc: > > > > >If anyone is still interested, I'd still appreciate any feedback. > > > > >http://home.earthlink.net/~attinasi/LUG/ > > > > My impression is that the background looks fake. I'm not sure to what > > extent this is your slide scanner, but the quality of light falling on your > > subject isn't the same as that falling on the background. The lighting is > > unnatural. There's light coming from up above, but there are still > > catchlights in her eyes. Doesn't look like she's really outside. > > > > Eric > > -- > > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > > -- > Nathan Wajsman > Herrliberg (ZH), Switzerland > > e-mail: wajsman@webshuttle.ch > > Photo-A-Week: http://www.wajsman.com/indexpaw.htm > General photo site: http://www.wajsman.com/index.htm > > > -- > 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