Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/08/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Kyle, It warms the cockles of my heart to hear you say studio light is killing you after all these years. YOU of all people! I was studio light challenged myself and decided in March of this year to just figure it out. SO....I hooked up my lights (old Novatrons in a 240 power pack), assembled my softboxes, hung up a background and went to work. I drug every live person (and a few inantimate objects) that I could get my hands on to my 'studio' for a sitting. It's amazing what you learn my JUST DOING IT. Not reading books, not looking at the web for inspiration but just firing up the lights, getting behind the camera and pushing the buttons. You're digital so it's easy, it's cheap and there's no faster way to learn what works and what doesn't. Since March of this year I've moved my 'studio' out of the attic and into a the largest bedroom in the house (14x18') and have booked many, many a portrait shoot with confidence. Keep flashing the light, eventually the bulb will go on. Lea ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kyle Cassidy" <KCassidy@asc.upenn.edu> To: <lug@leica-users.org> Sent: Thursday, August 26, 2004 12:16 PM Subject: [Leica] Flat lighting and perverts > >Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 16:08:50 +0100 > >From: "Beddoe, Neil" <nbeddoe@lehman.com> > >Subject: RE: [Leica] Kyle posts provocative new work in a futile > > attempt to stop the innane riefenstahl nonsense! > > >The lighting is very flat on the indoor scenes Kyle. Haven't you got a > >few flashguns you could have put at threatening angles? I assume that the > >furniture isn't normally used under normal domestic lighting. Maybe it is, > >my experience in these matters is somewhat limited. > > Thanks for the input neil, -- I admit, I was probably too far under the > influence of david graham at the time: > > http://www.photoeye.com/Gallery/forms/index.cfm?image=1&id=84480&imagePo siti > on=1&Door=2&Portfolio=Portfolio1&Gallery=2 > > I can also offer this excuse: I would have lit it better if I knew anything > about lighting. > > I'm still working on that. Feel free to send me suggestions. Studio lighting > is a thing that still killing me, after all these years. > > Oh, and I do have this slightly more dramatically lit one: > > http://www.availabledark.com/~ratty/bound/7.jpg > > (it seems there are limits everywhere, one of the models said "you are _not_ > setting me on fire.") > > Kyle > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > >