Thank you, Don.
On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 11:38 AM, Don Guthrie <shark50...@gmail.com> wrote: > FWIW I agree with Larry about the wrinkled backdrop. The Shirt color doesn't > bother me and I know nothing about studio lighting but I think her face > stands out nicely, pose and expression great overall effective shot. > > pdml-requ...@pdml.net wrote: >> >> Message: 11 Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2013 18:33:27 -0700 From: Larry Colen >> <l...@red4est.com> To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <pdml@pdml.net> Subject: >> Re: PESO Portrait of Sophie Message-ID: >> <20130820013327.ga29...@platypus.gruk.net> Content-Type: text/plain; >> charset=us-ascii On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 08:59:34PM -0400, Bruce Walker >> >> wrote: >>> >>> >A straight-forward "studio" portrait of my niece, Sophie. Shot on >>> >location in my sister's living room (she's a champ to put up with me >>> >rearranging the whole thing). >>> > >>> >http://flic.kr/p/fy42fh >>> > >>> >I was also testing my latest money-saving invention: $10 IKEA >>> >background support system. Ingredients: One Hugad black curtain rod, >>> >210-385 cm; 2x Betydlig curtain rod brackets, top-slot filed out to >>> >fit 1/4" stud on top of light stand; use with two cheap 8' light >>> >stands. >> >> That sounds a lot like something I've done. >> >>> > >>> >>> >K20D, DA* 50-135/2.8 @ 90mm/f:5, 1/160th, ISO 100; >>> >Lr + Ps + Nik + Portraiture >>> > >>> >Paramount short lighting with reflector fill. AF540FGZ in Westcott >>> >Medium Apollo above-left, key; AF540FGZ in 30" umbrella softbox, >>> >boomed above behind-right, hair; 42" silver reflector, right. >>> > >>> >Comments welcome! >> >> The lighting is damn near perfect. >> >> >> There are a few things that I think you might have done differently, >> advice that is worth approximately what it's costing you. >> >> 1) The dark green shirt is too close in color to the grey background. >> I think that a red, or maroon sweater would have worked a lot better. >> Alternatively, maybe some rim lighting would have set it off. >> >> 2) I find the creases on the backdrop distracting. The ideal situation >> would involve a room two or three times the size of the one you had, >> where you could move the backdrop far enough away that it would have >> been either totally out of focus, unlit, or both. >> Alternatively, if there is any way you could have used gobos to keep >> most of the light off the backdrop and just hit it with a spot >> behind Sophie, to add contrast, then you'd only need a small unwrinkled >> area of background. That could have also set off the sweater. >> >> To prevent the distracting creases like those, I do one of two things. >> I will either store a backdrop rolled up on a 10' section of ABS >> so that it is smooth, and has no creases. Or I will store it wadded up >> in a bin, so that it is covered by random wrinkles, with no distracting >> patterns. >> >> Although, what I usually really do is just make sure that my lights >> are much closer to my model than the background, and ideally not even >> hitting the backgound, because if you can't see the backdrop, then you >> can't see the creases. >> >>> > >>> >-- >>> >-bmw >>> > >>> >>> >-- >>> >PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >>> >PDML@pdml.net > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. -- -bmw -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
