[Leica] Flat lighting and perverts

[Jim at hemenway.com (Jim Hemenway)]

Lea:

I have the Novatron 440 with three heads... which I'm guessing must be 
the same size as yours.  Which softboxes do you recommend?

Thanks,

Jim



lea wrote:

> 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
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