Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/09/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Did somebody mention Fred Archer? My, my, my! How refreshing to see some knowledge of a past application of lighting tech. S. > From: Alan Magayne-Roshak <amr3@alpha1.csd.uwm.edu> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org> > Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 08:25:19 -0500 > To: lug@leica-users.org > Subject: [Leica] Re: Studio Flash Help > > >> Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 >> From: Mark Rabiner <mark@rabinergroup.com> > >> Use one less light. You are using two. You only need one. >> In real life there is one sun in the sky. One moon at night. >> One light in your eye. One shadow below. >> >> Having a light on each side of the camera as you are doing is how you >> light >> a map. >> It's not the way you light people. > .............................................................................. > .. > > I agree you shouldn't use copy lighting for people, but don't agree that > one light is best. I can't stand having parts of the picture blend > together. Hurrell, Archer and many others used multiple lights to get > separation of planes. I think using multiple light sources skillfully is a > real test of skill. Any extra catchlights in the eyes can be taken out of > the finished picture. > .............................................................................. > >> Use one main light. >> Just like God. >> ...... >> That's two light sources again as far as I am concerned. >> And not natural. > .............................................................................. > > What does it matter if it's natural or not if the image looks good? Here > is some text from Lotte H. Eisner's book "The Haunted Screen": > > "The double lighting is definitely a violation - a violation of nature, if > you like. But if it is a violation of nature, I add immediately that it is > superior to nature. I say that this is a master stroke, and proves that > with genius art is not entirely subject to the necessities imposed by > nature but has laws of its own." -- Goethe, during a discussion on a Rubens > landscape in which two sources of light can be seen: Eckermann"s > Conversations, 1827. > > Alan > > Alan Magayne-Roshak > Senior Photographer > Visual Imaging > Univ. of Wis.- Milwaukee > Information & Media Technologies > amr3@uwm.edu > (414) 229-4282/6525 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information