[Leica] IMG: Portraits has an S in it

[hopsternew at gmail.com (Geoff Hopkinson)]

Cheers
Geoff
http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman


On 20 July 2014 09:22, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote:

> Of course in the old days when it came time to put down your cute little
> Leica and start playing with a big boy photo toy you'd get yourselves a
> Rollei 2.8f TLR and or a Hasselblad and  you'd be shooting squares though.
> You'd bee shooting loose to then crop into rectangles. Horizontal or
> vertical as the situation required or your mood moved you later.
> If it was me I'd not been shooting my 70 on my S and be working with
> unstopped images.


*YEP, doing just that and I do like 3:2 very much. That's what my M does
too and all of its ancestors ;-)*

> I'd shoot a bit loose. Crop later. I do that right now
> with everything I shoot which is rectangles on my D700.
>
>
> On 7/17/14 10:20 AM, "Geoff Hopkinson" <hopsternew at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Thanks Alan. The texture in the background is a polished concrete wall
> > (normally my grunge wall) and used deliberately despite the beauty dish
> > lighting) and as you know the double catchlights are from the clamshell
> > lighting. Easy to retouch out if desired of course. I don't think that
> > would reflect the light used though (but then you can't rely on counting
> > catchlights in beauty/fashion of course). I can understand why both
> aspects
> > might bother an experience studio  classicalist photographer of course.
> > Thank you for your look and comment. ;-)
> > How about here with more focussed but feathered light?
> > (gridded beauty dish inserted into the end of an overhead horizontal
> > feathered strip light)
> > http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman/image/156344992
> > http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman/image/156419984
> > http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman/image/156419983
> >
> >
> > Cheers
> > Geoff
> > http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman
> >
> >
> > On 17 July 2014 23:38, Alan Magayne-Roshak <amr3 at uwm.edu> wrote:
> >
> >> Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2014 17:37:24 +1000
> >> From: Geoff Hopkinson <hopsternew at gmail.com>
> >> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> >> Subject: [Leica] IMG: PortraitS has an S in it
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> >> http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman/image/156614330
> >> http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman/image/156614331
> >> http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman/image/156614332
> >>
> >> Cheers
> >> Geoff
> >> http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman
> >>
> >>
> =============================================================================
> >> ======
> >> I like the first one best, but I wish there wasn't that texture in the
> >> background on all three.
> >>
> >> In the third, it still bothers me that there are two catchlights in the
> >> eyes.  Makes them look runny.
> >>
> >> Alan
> >>
> >> Alan Magayne-Roshak, Senior Photographer
> >> University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Photo Services
> >> (Retired)
> >> UPAA Photographer of the Year 1978
> >> UPAA Master of the Profession 2014
> >> amr3 at uwm.edu
> >> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/>
> >>
> >> "All the technique in the world doesn't compensate
> >>  for an inability to notice. " - Elliott Erwitt
> >>
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